Combat Support for Veterans & Their Dependents
in the Battle for VA Disability & Survivors' Benefits
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About Us
Jill Mitchell has been practicing law since 1991. She has litigation and legal publishing experience in several areas of law including personal injury, medical malpractice, criminal, consumer, and family issues. As a resident of San Antonio, Texas ("Military City, USA") and the wife of an active duty combat veteran, she saw a need her legal experience could address. 
In 2000, she narrowed her practice to focus solely on veterans' lawcases, and has been fighting the VA ever since. She is accredited to
represent veterans from all over the country at all levels of the admin-
istrative and judicial process and has been admitted to practice
before the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims since 2001. She is
also licensed to practice in all courts in the state of Texas.
She graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1988 with a B.A. in English. In 1991, she received her law degree from St. Mary's University School of Law. As a Law Journal staff member, she wrote and published Reformers' Regress: The 1991 Texas Workers' Compensation Act, 22 St. Mary's L.J. 1111 (1991). She also participated in internships with Bexar County Legal Aid and the Lackland Air Force Base Judge Advocate General's Office.
In 2008, she was invited to run and was elected to serve a three-year term on the Board of the National Organization of Veterans' Advocates. Her office is now affiliated with the full-service statewide law firm of Heard & Smith, LLP.
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- Member, Court of Appeals for Veterans' Claims Bar Association
- Member, Federal Bar Association
- Active Participant, Veterans' Consortium Pro Bono Program
- Active Pro Bono Representative, Detroit Mercy School of Law Project SALUTE
- Active Volunteer, University of Texas School of Law Veterans Association
- Volunteer, Annual Texas Veterans and Military Summit Event
- Past Volunteer, Texas Equal Access Service Project
- Member, College of the State Bar of Texas
- Member, Pro Bono College of the State Bar of Texas since 2002
- Member, Texas Bar Association
- Member, San Antonio Bar Association
Sustaining Member since 2001
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"Providing Representation to America's
Veterans and their Dependents"
www.vetadvocates.com
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