(902)442-8853
CALL US
EMAIL US
[popup_anything id=”518″]
Jeff Mitchell
Principal Lawyer & Founder
Phone
Location
Exec. Assistant
About Jeff
Jeff Mitchell is the founder and principal lawyer of NOVA Injury Law, a plaintiff-side personal injury and long-term disability firm serving Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador. He represents people who have been seriously hurt and workers whose disability benefits have been denied or cut off.
Jeff started his career on the other side of the file, practising insurance law at a large regional firm before moving to a plaintiff-side personal injury boutique. That experience shapes how he builds cases today: he knows how insurers evaluate a claim, where they push back, and what evidence moves them.
He founded NOVA Injury Law in 2016 after seeing that seriously injured people were being underserved. They couldn’t get timely, accurate medical guidance alongside experienced legal advice. Clients quickly found themselves on calls with Jeff and his wife, Dr. Laura Mitchell, a practising emergency physician with training in occupational medicine. That collaboration became The Doctor-Lawyer Law Firm™: medical insight built into every claim from day one.
What began as a single desk in a shared office is now a team of about 40 people across Atlantic Canada. Jeff is a trial lawyer first. He carries his own caseload of complex and serious injury claims and regularly takes cases to trial in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia and the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island. He believes the law only moves forward for injured people when the right cases go to court, and NOVA Injury Law has built its litigation practice around that conviction. NOVA Injury Law’s mission is to help as many injury victims in Atlantic Canada as possible get a fair result.
Trial Work
NOVA Injury Law takes cases to trial when an insurer’s offer doesn’t reflect what a claim is worth. Since September 2024, Jeff has been counsel of record in five trials decided on the merits in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, totalling 31 days in court, and he argued before the Prince Edward Island Court of Appeal in 2026.
- Sabiston v. Halifax Regional Centre for Education, 2026 NSSC 274: school playground fall, five-day liability trial (with Logan Clark-Kenney)
- Morgan v. McCarthy, 2026 NSSC 248: motor vehicle collision and chronic pain, eight-day trial (with Kallen Heenan)
- Kensington Co-operative Association Limited v. Profitt, 2026 PECA 9: workers’ compensation appeal, Prince Edward Island Court of Appeal
- Smith v. Ricksons Enterprises Ltd., 2026 NSSC 18: winter slip-and-fall, four-day liability trial (with Logan Clark-Kenney)
- Peterson v. Anderson, 2025 NSSC 186: fall down a staircase during a house party, seven-day liability trial (with Benjamin Tallon and Kallen Heenan)
- Anderson v. Gagne, 2025 NSSC 131: motor vehicle collision and concussion, seven-day trial (with Kallen Heenan)
Background
Born in Halifax, Jeff earned an honours degree in Criminology at Saint Mary’s University, where he founded the SMU Community Development Initiative Levy, a student-backed fund that provides seed money to local community projects. He has coached the university’s legal case debating society since graduating, and was named Saint Mary’s University Young Alumni of the Year in 2015.
Jeff completed his law degree at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. Through the Medico-Legal Society of Toronto, a joint initiative of doctors and lawyers focused on quality patient care, he represented patients before the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board in complaints about unprofessional or negligent physician treatment. He also volunteered with the Legal Aid Clinic, led the Academic Student Government, served as vice-chair of the Faculty Council, and received the Osgoode Hall Gold Key Award on graduation.
Education
Saint Mary’s University (B.A Hons., Criminology)
Osgoode Hall Law School (J.D.)
Insurance Institute of Canada (CIP Candidate)
Bar Admissions & Professional Memberships
Called to the bar in 2015.
Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society
Law Society of Prince Edward Island
Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador
Law Society of Ontario
Atlantic Provinces Trial Lawyers Association
Canadian Bar Association
American Association for Justice
Awards
Lawyers to Watch (2027)
Three Best Rated, Personal Injury Lawyers, Halifax (2016–2026)
Saint Mary’s University Young Alumni of the Year (2015)
21inc. Emerging Atlantic Leader
Osgoode Hall Law School Gold Key Award
Community
Jeff has served as a Commissioner on the Halifax Board of Police Commissioners, Counsel to Fusion Halifax, and Director of the Community Development Initiative at Saint Mary’s University. He is a past Vice-President of Triathlon Nova Scotia.
Personal Interests
When he’s not working on a file, Jeff is with Laura and their children, Clare, Julie, and Will. You’ll usually find the family running, racing triathlons, or travelling.
