Berger Montague PC
Paul Bland is co-chair of the Berger Montague’s Appeals and Complex Briefing Department, along with shareholder Josh Davis.
Paul has argued and won more than 40 cases that have led to reported decisions for consumers, workers, or other aggrieved claimants, including one win in the U.S. Supreme Court, and at least one victory in the state supreme courts of ten different states and six of the U.S. Courts of Appeal. Paul has handled numerous successful challenges to forced arbitration clauses and has also successfully defeated federal preemption defenses in a number of cases, among other substantive appeals he has handled. For ten years, Paul served as the Executive Director at Public Justice, a national legal advocacy nonprofit organization, overseeing the organization’s litigation and advocacy, as well as operations, communications, and finance. For 17 years before that, Paul was a Senior Attorney at Public Justice, overseeing appellate and other litigation at the organization.
Paul has testified in both houses of Congress several times, as well as before half a dozen state legislatures and various federal and state regulatory agencies. He has been quoted in more than 100 press stories in a wide range of media and has appeared in more than 100 continuing legal education programs in more than 30 states.
Paul is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Georgetown University. Before joining Public Justice in 1997, Paul worked for six and a half years with the Law Office of Kieron Quinn and Quinn Ward & Kershaw in Baltimore, handling consumer and toxic tort class actions and defending libel suits. Before that, he was Nominations Counsel for the U.S. Senate Judiciary
