When George Mitchell left the U.S. Senate in 1995, he was intent on carving out a private practice for himself. But he also wanted the flexibility to step away for special government assignments. One such endeavor was becoming the United States special envoy for Northern Ireland later that year. “The firm said I wouldn’t be on the clock and that I would be able to continue some degree of a public service,” says Mitchell, explaining his decision to join Washington, D.C.’s Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, known as a landing perch for politicos.
During the past 17 years, Mitchell’s special assignments have not only included spearheading the peace efforts in Northern Ireland that resulted in the Good Friday Agreement, but also leading a fact-finding committee in 2000 and 2001 looking into the Arab-Israeli conflict and serving for over two years as the Obama administration’s special envoy for Middle East peace.
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