DAVID E. MILLS

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David Mills has previously been named one of five “Lawyers of the Year” in the United States by the publication Lawyers USA. He has been featured in a cover story for the national ABA Journal and profiled in Super Lawyers magazine. He has also appeared on CNN’s Death Row Stories.

Mills is a federal appellate attorney and former adjunct professor of law who has argued at the Supreme Court of the United States, obtaining a 9-0 decision in Ortiz v. Jordan. He also has represented various U.S. Senators and Representatives at the Supreme Court, filing an amicus brief on their behalf regarding securities class actions in Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund. Mills also has significant experience representing people who have been wrongfully imprisoned, including Joe D’Ambrosio and brothers Kwame Ajamu and Wiley Bridgeman—all who were freed after spending decades in prison and time on death row. In 2016, Mills successfully argued in the Sixth Circuit to reinstate a multimillion dollar jury verdict for a paving company forced out of business. Mills also obtained a resentencing for former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora in an appeal to overturn Dimora’s convictions and 28-year sentence arising out of a massive public-corruption investigation. More information regarding Mills’s cases, including links to briefs and oral arguments, is on the Experience page of this site.

Mills has retired from the day-to-day practice of law and advises on cases on a limited basis.

Prior Experience

  • Appellate Practice professor at law schools of Case Western Reserve University and the University of Toledo.

  • Judicial law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit for Judge R. Guy Cole, Jr.

  • Judicial law clerk at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for Senior District Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer.

  • Litigation attorney at the international law firm Jones Day.

Education

  • J.D., The University of Michigan Law School (Honors).

  • B.A., Mathematics, Colgate University (Honors, Phi Beta Kappa).

 

Selected Writings