Paul specializes in leading national science teams to strategically develop and coordinate scientific defense strategies for MDLs and mass tort cases. He has been an integral member of the national discovery teams, expert teams, and trial teams in some of the largest and most complex MDLs in history. Paul has extensive experience preparing, defending, and cross-examining case-specific and general causation experts. He recently cross-examined the plaintiff’s primary case-specific and general causation experts as the second-chair trial attorney in a two-week pelvic mesh trial that resulted in a complete defense verdict. In addition, he has provided on-site trial support to lead trial counsel in more than a dozen federal and state court trials involving pelvic mesh. Paul plays an integral role in developing trial strategies, coordinating, and arguing deposition designations of company witnesses, arguing motions in limine and Daubert motions, preparing and defending company witnesses and experts, cross-examining experts, presenting defense experts, and creating jury-friendly trial graphics.

Paul earned his bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Longwood University and his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Mississippi College School of Law. He is admitted to the State Bar of Mississippi.

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