Lawyers choose mediators based on trust. A trust that the mediator will fully and carefully review the case materials, listen to the arguments from both sides and facilitate open discussions about early resolution. A trusted mediator handles the matter with complete confidentiality and ensures that the respective parties’ positions are not compromised throughout the process. If the matter doesn’t settle that day, they must feel assured that they leave the mediation in no worse position than when they arrived.
Parties placing their matters in the hands of an Arbitrator is a most serious matter. They must all implicitly trust that the Arbitrator will singularly focus on the law and the evidence in reaching a binding Award.
After completing Duquesne University School of Law law school in 1995, Paul started with Dougherty Leventhal & Price, LLP. Paul focuses his practice on complex civil litigation including medical malpractice, product liability, insurance bad faith and automobile/trucking cases.
Paul has served extensively as both a Mediator and an Arbitrator in both State and Federal actions. Having started his career working for Defendants and liability insurance carriers before moving to primarily Plaintiff work in 2005. He’s been retained by Plaintiff lawyers and most liability insurance carriers in the State of Pennsylvania to resolve matters they cannot resolve themselves. He’s been retained to resolve matters throughout Pennsylvania and has nearly a 100% success rate for mediations.
Paul is a Certified Court-Appointed Mediator in the United States District Court for the Middle District of PA.
He has been named a Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy since 2003 and was recognized as a “Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Rising Star” each year between 2005 and 2010. He has been named a “Pennsylvania Super Lawyer” every year since 2011.
He is also a Fellow in the Litigation Council of America which is a Trial Lawyer Honorary Society composed of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. He was most recently selected by the National Trial Lawyers as a Top 100 Trial Lawyer every year since 2012. Membership of this organization is by invitation only and is extended to those individuals who exemplify superior qualifications, trial results and leadership in their respective States.
Paul has lectured extensively for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Pennsylvania Association of Justice, Defense Research Institute, Dispute Resolution Institute, Lackawanna, Luzerne, and Monroe County Bar Associations, National Business Institute, Tort Talk Legal Blog, Committee for Justice For All, Northeast Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association and American Board of Trial Advocacy. He is a member of the NEPA Trial Lawyers’ Association, American Association of Justice, and Pennsylvania Bar Association.
The Northeast Business Journal named Paul as one of Northeast PA’s Top Twenty Under Forty for 2008.
Paul was published nationally in the February 2009 edition of Trial Magazine, The Journal of the American Association for Justice for an article entitled Initial Steps
In the Roadway Drop Off Case where he and his firm obtained a $14.5 million dollar settlement for a catastrophically injured client.
Read Danger on the Road, an article written by Paul T. Oven
