Mr. Paul is leader of the firm's Battle Group, a practice group dedicated to handling high-risk matters heading to trial. His primary areas of practice are trial work, litigation and appellate practice focusing on complex environmental toxic tort litigation, class actions, medical monitoring, commercial and employment litigation.

Bar Admissions

Admissions

• West Virginia Bar
• Kentucky Bar
• Arizona Bar
• West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
• Supreme Court of Kentucky
• United States Supreme Court
• United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
• United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth and Sixth Circuits

Education

• Bridgewater College of Virginia, B.A. in Philosophy and Religion, cum laude, 1987
• University of Richmond, T. C. Williams School of Law, J.D., 1990

Significant Accomplishments

Trying numerous cases to verdict and litigating hundreds of disputes, including environmental, toxic tort, and personal injury claims, unfair trade practices, deliberate intent injury claims, and employment-related jury, bench and administrative trials

One of four lawyers in the nation selected to serve on a "litigation strike force" for an international Fortune 100 company

Serving as co-chair and outside counsel liaison for E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company's "in-house" tort practice group

Often retained as substitute trial counsel in high risk matters

Arguing several class action certification motions, including significant groundwater contamination actions

Counsel at a number of "Daubert" hearings challenging a variety of experts

Arguing numerous cases before various state and federal appellate courts, including an en banc panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Publications & Presentations

• Co-Author, "The Negotiation Class Certification: Should Courts Encourage or Exterminate Innovation?" Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal, American Bar Association, Spring 2021
• Speaker, Litigation Counsel of America 2012 Spring Conference & Induction of Fellows, Santa Barbara, California, May 2012
• Speaker, "Trying the Unwinnable Case," Litigation Counsel of America, Renaissance Symposium II, Watercolor, Florida, March 25, 2011
• Spoken and published on the trial of complex toxic torts and the aggressive management of discovery in chemical product liability claims, including panels such as "Discovering the New Frontier - Discovery Management in the Age of New Science and New Legal Theories"; "We Win, You Lose - A Critical Look at Case Themes"; and "The Advantages and Disadvantages of Trying a Mass Tort or Class Action in Stages"
• Program Chair and organizer of ABA Workshop: 2006 "Contamination Examination - A Regional CLE Workshop on the Changing Face of Chemical Product Liability Claims"; 2007 "The Chemical Products Liability Trial: Winning at Every Stage"; and 2008 "Mass, Class or Pass - Making Strategic Decisions in the Big Chemical Case"
• Spoken and published internationally on Sarbanes-Oxley litigation, including a 2003 engagement in London, England
• "Client Service in the Twenty-First Century - Finding Profits in Partnering," Texas State Bar Lawyer Boot Camp, 2003