Attorney Profiles
MITCHELL E. RUSSELL
MITCH is a 1986 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and a 1983 graduate of Cornell University. Prior to forming Russell Law Group in 2006, Mitch was the founding partner of Salvo, Russell, Fichter & Landau, a boutique real estate and corporate transactions law firm located in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, and grew that firm from two to fourteen attorneys from 1993 to 2005. From 1986 to 1993, Mitch was associated with Dechert Price & Rhoads in Philadelphia.
Outside of the practice of law, Mitch is an avid golfer, skier and hiker. Mitch is an active volunteer for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, serving on both the Board of Trustees and Board of Directors. He is the past chair of the Renaissance Group of the Jewish Federation, and of Super Sunday, and was the Philadelphia Area Chair for the National Men’s Leadership Cabinet of the United Jewish Communities. Mitch is also President of Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.
Outside of the practice of law, Mitch is an avid golfer, skier and hiker. Mitch is an active volunteer for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, serving on both the Board of Trustees and Board of Directors. He is the past chair of the Renaissance Group of the Jewish Federation, and of Super Sunday, and was the Philadelphia Area Chair for the National Men’s Leadership Cabinet of the United Jewish Communities. Mitch is also President of Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.
ANDREA B. BRAINARD
ANDREA practices primarily in the areas of corporate, environmental and commercial real estate law. Her corporate experience includes business organization and dissolutions, asset and stock acquisitions and sales, managing transaction closings, as well as drafting and negotiating commercial contracts such as employment agreements, shareholder and partnership agreements. Her real estate experience includes advising clients in environmental law matters, managing transaction closings, as well as drafting and negotiating agreements relating to the acquisition, leasing, financing and management of real estate. Andrea worked with Mitch Russell as an associate at Salvo, Russell, Fichter & Landau since 1995; prior to that, Andrea was an associate at the law firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay in Philadelphia and at Collier, Shannon, Rill & Scott in Washington, D.C. Andrea received her J.D. from Pace University School of Law in 1989, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Pace Environmental Law Review, and her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1983.