Mitchell Ehrlich was recently made Partner at Lonich & Patton. He practices exclusively in the firm’s Family Law practice, handling a wide variety of family law issues, including dissolution, legal separation, property division issues, custody and support disputes, parentage claims, post-judgment matters and pre and post-nuptial agreements.

Mr. Ehrlich was born in Schenectady, NY in 1971, and grew up in San Jose. Mr. Ehrlich graduated with an Economics Degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1993. After working in real estate finance for several years, he then attended law school at Pepperdine University School of Law during which time he secured placement on the Deans Honors List numerous times, earned multiple scholarships, and had temporary assignments with the Washington D.C. Public Defender's Office, the U.S.D.A. and the U.S. District Bankruptcy Court. Mr. Ehrlich graduated Cum Laude from Pepperdine in 1998, and then returned to San Jose to begin the active practice of law.

Mr. Ehrlich began his career doing criminal law, employment litigation and products liability. He then joined Lonich and Patton, LLP in 1999 as the ranking associate where he amassed a tremendous amount of litigation experience in cases concerning insurance law, business law, products liability and employment law. Mr. Ehrlich has handled all of the firm's appellate work, where he has had recent success in a case involving the Fireman's Rule in California as applied to a contract paramedic company.

Mr. Ehrlich is a member of the State Bar of California, the Association of Defense Counsel and the Santa Clara Bar Association. Among his many professional activities are volunteering his time to serve as a Temporary Judge for the Santa Clara County Superior Court Family Court and Traffic Court and as an Arbitrator for the Santa Clara County Bar Association's Attorney Client Fee Disputes Division. He was previously a volunteer Temporary Judge with the Santa Clara County Superior Court Civil Division and was Chair of the City of San Jose Traffic Appeals Commission from 1999 through 2004. Mr. Ehrlich also volunteers his time with the Pro Bono Association's Lawyers in the Library Program as well as handling Pro Bono cases time permitting. His published articles include "Backdraft: A Treatise on the Fireman's Rule in California" San Francisco Daily Journal, June 2, 2000. Mr. Ehrlich is admitted to practice before all California courts, including the North Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and the Federal District Court for the Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California.