Paul has extensive experience handling commercial real estate matters (representing buyers, sellers, lenders, and borrowers), residential real estate matters (as title agent and/or seller’s or buyer’s counsel), title curative matters, landlord-tenant matters (both on the transactional and litigation fronts). He also has significant experience in commercial and general business litigation, consumer finance/banking, and real estate and title litigation. Paul has represented some of the largest residential lenders and servicers in the country, in various areas related to residential mortgage loan origination, servicing, and default, and has also represented a number of large and regional lenders in connection with business and real estate loan refinances, purchase money loans, construction loans, and loan renewals and workouts.

Paul’s vast legal career started at Holland and Knight LLP’s Fort Lauderdale office, where he concentrated his practice in complex commercial litigation, real estate and general business litigation, and landlord-tenant law. It eventually continued at GrayRobinson, P.A.’s Fort Lauderdale office, where he joined the firm’s banking and finance, real estate, and commercial litigation teams.

Beyond his law firm experience, Paul opened and ran the Florida regional title litigation office for Fidelity National Title Group (FNTG), the parent company to Fidelity National Title Insurance Co., Chicago Title Insurance Co., and Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co., where he and his team of title litigators focused on representing lenders and property owners in all aspects of residential and commercial title defects, liens and other encumbrances, and curative actions, while also representing the various FNTG companies in breach of contract, bad-faith, declaratory judgment and escrow deposit disputes and actions.

Prior to joining FNTG, Paul was Vice President and Associate General Counsel for JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.’s home loans litigation department and First Vice President and Senior Counsel for Washington Mutual Bank’s (WaMu) litigation department in Plantation, Florida. While at Chase and WaMu, Paul gained broad experience in all matters relating to consumer banking and residential loan origination and servicing, including foreclosure, REO, evictions, bankruptcy, collections practices, credit reporting, and government investigations and compliance. Additionally, prior to Chase’s acquisition of WaMu’s assets, Paul represented the bank in many other areas, including credit card, real estate, branch banking and retail banking-related disputes.

Paul’s experience and involvement expands beyond his legal work, encompassing significant involvement in numerous real estate-related and title-related organizations, such as CREW, CCIM, ULI, NAIOP, ICSC, FLTA, Bisnow, Miami Realtors, Broward, Palm Beach and St. Lucie County Realtors Association, and the Realtors Commercial Alliance. Paul also devotes significant time and resources to charitable organizations like H.A.N.D.Y. and the Leadership Broward Foundation. Additionally, Paul frequently serves as a speaker, panel member, moderator, or trainer for various legal, real estate, and title-related organizations, speaking/teaching on such topics as understanding potential pitfalls/traps in commercial and real estate contracts, title insurance and why it matters, the pros and cons of seller financing, real estate and title insurance law for family and probate law practitioners, 1031 Exchanges, and minimizing fraud risks in real estate transactions.

Paul obtained his law degree at Rutgers University School of Law – Newark, New Jersey, graduating with honors and earning Order of the Coif distinction, and received his Bachelors Degree in Political Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, graduating magna cum laude and earning Phi Beta Kappa distinction while also gaining acceptance into the Golden Key National Honor Society and the Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Honor Society.

Born in Brooklyn, Paul hails from Long Island, New York, and has called South Florida his home for over 25 years. Paul has three adult children and three grandchildren and enjoys live music, live sporting events, karaoke, and documentaries.