Motto: “Life is too short to drink bad wine.”

Primary Area of Practice: Business Litigation

• Chairperson of the State Bar of Wisconsin Board of Governors (July 2007–June 2008)
• Member of The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation
• Member of the State Bar of Wisconsin (Board of Governors), Seventh Circuit Bar Association, Western District of Wisconsin Bar Association (Past President) and the Dane County Bar Association
• Graduate of the University of Denver College of Law
• Earned a B.S. degree in Business Management from the University of South Dakota
• A native of South Dakota
• Admitted to practice in several federal and state courts, including the United States Supreme Court; the United States Court of Appeals for the First, Sixth and Seventh Circuits; the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, the Eastern District of Michigan and the District of Arizona; and all levels of the Wisconsin state court system

More about Paul:

Outside of practicing law, Paul has worked to promote the delivery of legal services to persons who cannot afford to pay for them. He has served for many years on the Dane County Bar Association's Delivery of Legal Services Committee and is a past chairperson of the State Bar Legal Assistance Committee. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund, Inc., an organization that helps fund the state's civil legal services programs. Paul also serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for the Urban League of Greater Madison, and on the board of the Downtown Madison Business Improvement District.

In the time period between college and law school, Paul was an officer (achieving the rank of Captain), helicopter pilot and flight instructor in the U.S. Army.

Paul enjoys downhill skiing and reading books on history.