Mitchell A. Kramer is the senior and founding partner of Kramer and Kramer, LLP. Mitchell has a long and distinguished history representing and litigating on behalf of small and mid-sized companies, with an emphasis on distributors and manufacturers’ representatives. Mitchell is general counsel for the Independent Medical Distributors Association and the Power/Motion Transmission Representatives Association. His expertise in representing and counseling businesses includes:

• Manufacturer’s representative laws
• Business organizations and mergers
• Contracts
• Employment law
• Franchising
• Litigation and appeals
• Securities law

Mitchell served as a deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania, chief counsel for the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, and solicitor of Abington Township, Pennsylvania.

He is the author of “The Pennsylvania Legal Guide” and wrote portions of the Operations Manual for Manufacturers Representative Firms published by the Manufacturers’ Representatives Educational Research Foundation. Mitchell has written numerous articles and lectured on legal and business issues involving manufacturers’ representatives and distributors.

Mitchell has represented numerous business entities in trial and appellate matters, having tried hundreds of cases to verdict.

Education

• LL.B. Yale University
• B.A. Dartmouth College, cum laude, Rufus Choate Scholar

Admissions

• Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• All Courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Pennsylvania
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th Circuits
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Mitchell is a member of the Pennsylvania and Montgomery County Bar Associations.

Mitchell has served on the Boards of Camp Council and the Rebecca Gratz Home, and on the Lawyers Advisory Committee of MANA (Manufacturers’ Agents National Association). He served in the U.S. Army handling legal assistance at Fort Knox.