Paul J. Verlander
Paul attended Duke University for his undergraduate degree, graduating summa cum laude, Phi Beta
Kappa, with special honors in English, in 1984. He went on to attend the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as a member of the Virginia Law Review and received his law degree in 1987. He then began a one-year judicial clerkship with the Honorable Henry A. Politz on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; and, thereafter, began his law career in Monroe, Louisiana. Paul’s practice in Monroe focused on commercial litigation, construction litigation, insurance defense, medical malpractice defense, school desegregation, personal injury, and family law, emphasizing complex community property partitions and highly contested child custody disputes. Having returned to his beloved New Orleans hometown, Paul joined the firm as a partner in the summer of 2010.
Areas of Practice
Insurance Defense, Insurance Coverage Issues, Construction Litigation, General Commercial Litigation,
Environmental and Asbestos Litigation, Class Action Defense, Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice
Defense, Family Law (Complex Community Property Partitions and Custody Litigation), and Appellate
Representation.
Professional
Affiliations
Paul is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, and the New Orleans
Bar Association and is a member in good standing of the bars of the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Paul has been admitted to practice in Louisiana since 1988 and has served in the past as a member of the LSBA House of Delegates for the Fourth District of Louisiana and as a member of the Judge Fred J. Fudicker American Inns of Court in Monroe.
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