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Practice Areas: Plaintiff Personal Injury, Products Liability, Wrongful Death, Asbestosis Claims

Additional Information: Jerry Neil Paul, a founding partner of Paul & Hanley LLP, Berkeley, California is a nationally recognized trial attorney focusing in the areas of wrongful death and personal injury resulting from occupational- and environmental-related toxins. Mr. Paul is also the Union attorney liaison for all 30 of the Pipe Fitters Local Unions in California, including Steamfitters, Plumbers, Welders, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, as well as Bricklayers local 4, Boilermakers lodge 549, and Boilermaker lodge 92. In addition, Mr. Paul represents injured workers in several industry segments, including Ironworkers, Plasterers, Carpenters, Electricians and Insulators, as well as World War II and Korean War Veterans from the Army, Navy, Merchant Marines and U.S. Air Force. Mr. Paul is also the founding board member of the Mesothelioma Research Foundation of America. In 1985, Mr. Paul sold his Equitable Life Insurance brokerage firm to devote his career to law, representing the seriously injured who are suffering from work-related diseases. As more citizens were affected by occupational- and environmental-toxin-related diseases, Mr. Paul invited Dean Hanley to partner and form Paul and Hanley. Today, the firm employs over twenty attorneys and 150 staff members to defend the rights of workers who have been injured on the job at Oil Refineries, Power Plants, Shipyards, Industrial Plants, Construction Sites as well as Commercial and Residential Buildings. In fact, the firm is very successful in obtaining early preferential trial dates for their mesothelioma and lung cancer clients, often within 120 days of the complaint filing and defendant response. Finally, Mr. Paul aggressively advocates for his clients by assisting them in receiving the right medical treatment through the Mesothelioma Research Foundation of America. The Mesothelioma Research Foundation of America supports the only mesothelioma research facility for USC/ Norris Medical Center. The focus of this research is the Veglin clinical trial initiative led by Dr. Parkash Gill, a board-certified oncologist and hematologist. Mr. Paul's firm has produced some of the most notable verdicts and highest settlements in the United States, securing financial compensation for wage losses and uncovered medical bill expenses, as well as pension and retirement benefit losses. One important legally significant verdict was won in a particular asbestos disease related case led by Mr. Paul, whereby the jury found an asbestos product to be defective under the Consumer Expectation Test. This was a theory of liability that has now become a standard in asbestos litigation. Mr. Paul also acts as a lead consumer advocate in the areas of law and medicine, including: 1) lobbying efforts to prepare clients for U.S. State Judiciary Committee Testimony, 2) Financial grant support for Dr. Gill and the USC Keck School of Medicine mesothelioma clinical research projects, and 3) Financial Supporter for the Mesothelioma Research Foundation of America. Jerry N. Paul was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. In 1975, Mr. Paul received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and Accounting from Cal State University at Northridge to pursue his career in benefits and estate planning for Equitable Life Insurance. Mr. Paul was a member of the Teamsters Union for several years while loading and unloading United Parcel Service trucks in Los Angeles as he paid his way through college. At one point the Teamsters actually saved his job. That's when he came to clearly understand the importance and benefit of what it means to be a union brother. While continuing his education through law school, Mr. Paul became the sole proprietor of his own insurance brokerage business. In 1979, Mr. Paul received his degree in law from the San Fernando Valley College of Law. For approximately five years, Mr. Paul maintained both a sole proprietorship legal practice and Insurance brokerage firm. In 1980, Mr. Paul was admitted to the California bar. In 1993, Mr. Paul entered an elite group of attorneys when he was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Paul is also very active in the Consumer Attorneys of California where he serves on the Board of Governors. Mr. Paul has been requested to present lectures for Union organization members and retirees of California Pipe Trade Locals and Building Trade Locals throughout California. Mr. Paul's presentation topics include a discussion of the Mesothelioma Research Foundation where he advocates consumer education and support for funding mesothelioma research to find a cure for the disease to preserve the quality of life for those afflicted by the disease. Presently, Mr. Paul serves on the Board of the Mesothelioma Research Foundation of America and the Board of Visitors at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California. Mr. Paul maintains an active membership in the following organizations: the Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles, San Diego, and Ventura; and the American, California, and San Francisco Trial Lawyers Associations. Mr. Paul has been appointed as a mediator to arbitrate Manville asbestos bankruptcy claim appeals and serves as an arbitrator for the Eagle Pitcher Industry Bankruptcy Victims Trust Fund. He is a Fellow of The Roscoe Pound Institute, an institute dedicated to the cause of promoting access to the civil justice system. Mr. Paul has also been accepted as a Life Member of the National Register of Who's Who for his work on asbestos litigation and for co-founding the Mesothelioma Research Foundation of America. Mr. Paul's practice is limited to the areas of wrongful death and personal injury (Plaintiff) resulting from occupational exposure to toxins. Specific areas of practice include asbestos-related lung cancer, mesothelioma, asbestosis and other diseases; leukemia and lymphoma resulting from benzene and other solvents exposure; manganese related neurological disease caused by welding rod exposure; and other diseases and injuries caused by occupational and environmental related toxins.