Mittel Law was founded in 2019 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to do tax and corporate work the way clients actually want it: with the experienced attorney on the file from the first call to the last signature. No pyramid, no handoffs, no surprise on the invoice. The firm exists because its founder had spent years watching good clients pay for a structure that did not fit their work — a layer of associates, a partner who appeared only at the start, a bill that grew faster than the matter did. A boutique built around one attorney removes those layers and keeps the responsibility in one place.
We take a deliberately small number of matters at a time. That keeps the work careful and the client list short enough that the principal knows every file by name and remembers the facts without re-reading them. It also means our advice is grounded in your particular situation rather than a template pulled from the last engagement. When a matter needs a capability we do not hold in-house — a local litigator, a business appraiser, out-of-state tax counsel — we bring in the right specialist and coordinate the work rather than pretend a single office can do everything well.
Two things guide nearly every engagement. The first is to plan before the fact: the tax and corporate consequences of a deal, a transfer, or an entity choice are far cheaper to shape in advance than to fix after a notice arrives. The second is to be plain about it. Tax law is dense by nature, and a client who cannot follow the structure cannot make a sound decision about it. We explain the options in ordinary language, name the trade-offs honestly, and let you choose with the costs and the risks visible.
Mittel Law is led by Jonathan A. Reeve. Before founding the firm he spent roughly fifteen years advising businesses on the tax side of their most consequential transactions, including a long stretch as the sole tax attorney inside a busy transactional practice — the person every deal team came to when a structure had to actually work under the code. He holds an LL.M. in Taxation, is admitted in Tennessee, and works directly with every client. That background shapes how the firm runs: the instinct to ask the tax question first, to write agreements that survive a dispute, and to keep a matter at the level where it can be resolved quietly. The full profile is available below.