pbrandes@villarilaw.com

Paul, an equity partner at Villari, Brandes & Kline, is a senior litigator and trial attorney for the firm, and heads the firm’s litigation department. Paul received his college degree in 1985 from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. After graduating, he worked two years for the Council on Economic Priorities, a public interest research organization in New York City. There, Paul co-authored two books on nuclear arms control, "Security without Star Wars" and "Banning Nuclear Tests." In 1987, he enrolled at Temple University School of Law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, earning his law degree in 1990. While at Temple, Paul was awarded with membership on the prestigious Moot Court Honor Society and was awarded for Best Brief in the Polsky Moot Court competition. At the time of graduation, he also received an award for outstanding trial advocacy.

Since graduating law school, Paul has dedicated his career to representing clients who are the victims of personal injury caused by medical malpractice, defective products, civil rights violations, and catastrophic tractor-trailer and motor vehicle collisions. Among his clients in medical negligence cases are the parents of infants and children who are the victims of birth trauma or who are the victims of medical or nursing negligence during their newborn, toddler or adolescent years.

Paul is also active in fighting for the educational rights of children with learning difficulties. Paul and his partners seek to ensure that school districts provide appropriate educations for children who have problems learning compared to their peers, even if it means fighting to require the school district to pay for the child to attend a school outside of the district. Additionally, Paul is significantly engaged (with his partner, Peter Villari) in the design and development of computer software which assists trial lawyers in their visual presentations to juries.

Paul is licensed to litigate and try cases in courts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and the District of Columbia. He has obtained record setting multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements in medical malpractice cases and tractor-trailer collision wrongful death cases. Additionally, Paul teaches courses on behalf of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute regarding personal injury litigation topics such as medical malpractice/birth trauma and tractor-trailer collisions.

Paul is a member of the Philadelphia County and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania bar associations, as well as the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Associations and the nationally recognized American Association for Justice.