Richard W. Paul

Member

PROMINENT ASSIGNMENTS

Trial counsel for Ford Motor Company in commercial, products liability and personal injury litigation and arbitration.

Trial counsel for various manufacturers in products liability and personal injury litigation.

Trial counsel for Big Four, regional, and local accounting firms in accountant liability, securities fraud, class action and other litigation and arbitration.

Trial counsel for public and private companies in commercial, business tort and contract litigation and arbitration.

Trial counsel for hospitals and physicians in medical malpractice litigation.

National Discovery Counsel for Ford Motor Company.

Implemented and supervised major nationwide discovery projects for automotive manufacturers.

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS

BDO Seidman LLP

ConAgra Foods

Deloitte & Touche LLP

Ernst & Young LLP

Ford Motor Company

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Michigan Public Power Agency

Praxair, Inc.

Tachi-S Engineering, U.S.A., Inc.

United States Olympic Committee

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

Past Chairperson of the Michigan State Bar Litigation Section; Past member, State Bar of Michigan Representative Assembly
State Bar of Michigan (Business Law, Litigation, Negligence Law, and Master Lawyers Sections), American Bar Association (Litigation and Tort and Insurance Practice Sections), Oakland County Bar Association, Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association, Federal Bar Association (Southeastern Michigan Chapter)
Michigan SCAO Approved Mediator; Case Evaluator, Wayne County, Michigan and Oakland County, Michigan Courts
Oakland County Bar Foundation, Fellow
Michigan Defense Trial Counsel (Chair, Commercial Litigation Section), Defense Research Institute (Professional Liability Committee)
Past Midwest Regional Editor of Professional Liability Update, published by the ABA, Litigation Section Committee on Professional Liability Litigation

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Dartmouth College:
- President, Dartmouth Club of Detroit
- Member, Dartmouth College Alumni Council
- Member, Dartmouth Lawyers Association
Past President and member, Board of Directors of the Ivy Club of Detroit
Past President and member, Board of Directors of the Landings Condominium Association, Boyne City, Michigan
Past Trustee and Secretary, Bloomfield Village Association
Past Treasurer and member, Board of Directors of the Birmingham, Michigan Little League

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Lecturer, programs by the American Bar Association Trial, Tort and Insurance Practice Section, Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants and the Midwest Securities Law Institute
The Litigation Newsletter, State Bar of Michigan Litigation Section, “Michigan Joins Other States In Legislatively Limiting The Scope Of Accountants’ Liability to Non-Clients,” 1997
LACHES, co-author, “Barbarians At The Gate: Daubert Two Years Later,” 1995