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Paul Borth
Email: *********@********.***
Address: *** ******** *****
City: Glenview
State: IL
Zip: 60025
Country: USA
Phone: 847-***-****
Skill Level: Senior
Salary Range: $180,000
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Paul Borth
937 Glenayre Drive
Glenview, IL 60025
*********@********.***
An intelligent, motivated, articulate and dedicated problem solver with extensive experience in the orchestration and successful completion of multi-faceted projects. Comprehensive multi-disciplinary expertise in diverse strategic planning, tactical creativity and effective negotiation forged from years of experience actively engaged in complex high stakes litigation. A critical thinker with a keen ability to dissect and define issues, anticipate and remove roadblocks and maintain an unbending commitment to producing desired results in a time and cost effective manner. Superior inter-personal and persuasive communication skills specifically adapted to meet the needs of dynamic and changing situations. An inspirational leader, mentor, and change agent who builds and motivates focused and disciplined project and litigation teams to improve operational efficiency and capitalize on new and existing opportunities.
Core Competencies
* Strategic and Tactical Planning * Client/Stakeholder Relations Retention
* Risk Assessment and Management * Organizational Restructuring
* Negotiation and Deal Structuring * Team Building and Motivation
* Civil Litigation and Trial Practice * Process-Performance Improvement
Professional Experience[1]
Paul Borth Law Firm, Glenview, IL 2012- present
President
Founded a private law and consulting firm as a transition step to a corporate position. Practice focuses on providing strategy consultation services for Chicago area law firms and businesses and managing firm cases in the areas of aviation and aerospace law, medical malpractice, construction, engineering and other areas of the law in state and Federal courts.
Selected accomplishments include:
* Retained by a Chicago law firm one month before trial to serve as lead trial counsel in a Federal case against the FAA involving complex air traffic control, piloting, aerospace and metrological rules, practices and standards. Performed comprehensive technical and legal research and created an innovative new trial strategy from the existing case materials. Extensive trial preparation and development of the facts and evidence in the case in conjunction with negotiation expertise resulted in a large settlement for the client on the eve of trial.
* Retained by a suburban law firm to take over a highly complex defamation case that had been
languishing for more than six years. Aggressively eliminated ineffective strategies and theories and created a new streamlined case strategy to yield better results. Reset court deadlines and established a new case management plan to place the case back in the good graces of the client and the judge and expedite the resolution of the case.
* Ongoing expert consulting for Chicago-area firms on large-scale complex litigation including the review and analysis of new and existing healthcare, insurance, medical device, medical negligence, aerospace, aviation, product liability and construction cases for merit and devising effective, specific litigation strategies and management protocols for all phases of litigation, negotiation and trial.
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Nolan Law Group, Chicago, Ill., 2007- 2012
Managing Partner
Recruited as senior trial attorney, strategist and manager to add a significant trial strategy, personnel management and case management component to the firm and to revitalize and refine the firms internal litigation operations for maximum benefit. Merged the Borth Routh law firm with Nolan Law Group.
Selected responsibilities include:
* Created, managed and/or refined litigation, negotiation and trial strategies and served as lead trial and negotiation counsel for a large case load of complex construction, engineering, medical, product liability, pharmaceutical, aviation and insurance cases in state and Federal courts and in multi-district litigation.
* Instituted a more efficient firm-wide organization and case management structure to maximize the use firm resources, enhance client relationships and heighten the prospects for successful outcomes.
* Created and implemented professional performance improvement plan guidelines designed to improve the performance and morale of all attorneys and staff working for the firm.
* Generated millions of dollars of fee revenue for the firm as lead counsel in civil jury trials and from the negotiation of numerous complex, high level and difficult civil cases.
Borth Routh, LLC., Chicago, Ill., 2000- 2007
Managing Partner
Management and oversight of all aspects of the firms business functions, ventures and projects including finance and accounting; leasehold; human resources and benefits; client relations; marketing, advertising and business development.
Selected responsibilities include:
* Served as lead trial counsel in all of the firms complex medical, product liability, construction, automotive design and engineering liability cases.
* Spearheaded all efforts in the creation and execution of case management, litigation, negotiation, trial strategies and risk management for all firm cases.
* Set measures and organizational objectives and goals for the continued assessment of the effectiveness of the firm and its human resources.
* Tried and/or negotiated the settlement of numerous multi-million dollar cases.
Salvi, Schostok Pritchard, Waukegan, Ill., 1995-1999
Associate Attorney
Served as trial counsel for the litigation, trial, negotiation and settlement of auto accident, construction injury, product liability, automotive design and medical malpractice cases.
Selected responsibilities include:
* Performance of extensive legal research and writing of legal documents, motions and briefs.
* Compiled, organized and created trial case books that provided a comprehensive collection and outlines of relevant case law for use at the trial of firm cases.
* Trained by two of the best trial lawyers in the United States.
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Education
Juris Doctor, John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois
Member: Moot Court Counsel
First Place winner of Best Appellate Brief Award, John Marshall Moot Court Competition
Best Appellate Brief Award, Chicago Bar Association Moot Court Competition
Member and lead counsel, John Marshall Trial Advocacy Team.
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
Bar Admissions
Illinois Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
United States District Court and Trial Bar, Northern District of Illinois
Awards, Honors and Offices
Former Member: Medical Negligence Committee and Product Liability Committee, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
Judge-Evaluator: Association of Trial Lawyers of America Civil Mock Trial Competition
* Former Coach: Illinois State Bar Association Trial Advocacy Team
* Judge-Evaluator: American Bar Association Criminal Justice Mock Trial Competition
Member, Million Dollar Trial Lawyers
Member Illinois Bar Association
Judicial Law Clerk to the Hon. Judge Lester A. Bonaguro, Circuit Court of Cook County
Publications and Special Achievements
Guest Lecturer: Disclosure Requirements of Expert Opinions in Illinois State and Federal Courts and Effective Use of Opinion Witnesses, Discovery and Trial Practice Seminar, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education
* Guest Lecturer: Preparation for the Plaintiff in a Product Liability Action, Illinois State Bar Association
Author: Statutes of Limitation in Medical Malpractice Cases, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Medical Malpractice Trial Notebook
* Contributing Author: The IPI 5.01 Missing Witness and Missing Evidence Jury Instruction, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Education Fund
* Contributing Author: Plaintiffs Closing Arguments, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Point-Counterpoint Seminar
Despite overwhelming odds and complexities, succeeded in convincing the U.S. Government agencies to extricate 23 members of a medical assistance mission team who became stranded in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake and resultant breakdown in civil authority. Key member of a team expeditiously created to form and constantly adapt strategies for transportation and to engage in negotiations with U.S. military and elected officials to ensure the safe extraction of the mission team on a time-sensitive basis.
Level Four advanced hockey coaching certification, USA Hockey
Youth baseball and hockey coach
[1] Selected litigation and trial successes, publications and presentations, and a list of many of the professional disciplines studied and utilized during my experience as a trial attorney may be viewed on my website: paulborthlawfirm.com
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