Attorney Bios

Paul A. Slager, a partner, handles cases stemming from catastrophic events involving medical malpractice, serious accidents, defective consumer products, sexual abuse, discrimination and sexual harassment. He also represents small businesses and individuals in significant business disputes.

He has been listed in Connecticut Magazine as a Connecticut Super Lawyer in every year the list has been published.  He was also listed as a New England Super Lawyer in the 2007 New England Super Lawyers magazine.

Medical Malpractice, Brain Injury and Serious Injury Cases

Paul handles a wide variety of complex medical negligence, brain injury and serious injury cases. His practice focuses on cases involving the most serious injuries, including death and debilitating permanent disabilities.

Paul has special interest and experience in working with children and adults who have suffered brain injuries during childbirth or other avoidable incidents. He is Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Brain Injury Association of Connecticut, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of Connecticut brain injury survivors. He also is an active member of the National Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group of the American Association of Justice, and attends national conferences focused on cutting edge issues related to representing survivors of brain injury.

Many of Paul’s most notable results have resulted in confidential recoveries, but a few examples of his recent cases include:

• he recovered $6.4 million for an infant who sustained a brain injury, which allowed the injured child to continue living with his parents while getting the medical care and therapy needed at home;
• he recovered $5 million in a medical negligence case for the widow of a man who died from a treatable post-surgical complication;
• he recovered $2.75 million on behalf of a child who suffered head injuries when dropped by a caregiver who fell down a defective stairway.  The recovery followed came only after the plaintiff's experts carefully reconstructed the fall through a detailed biomechanical analysis, based on meticulous measurement and analysis of the geometry of the stairs;
• he recovered $3.125 million for two people who sustained head injuries in a Long Island Sound boating collision, which resulted in a jury trial against multiple defendants in Waterbury; and,
• he recovered a $2.5 million on behalf of a pedestrian who suffered traumatic brain injury and leg injuries when she was struck by a car while crossing the street.

Sexual Abuse and Discrimination Cases

Paul has also obtained significant recoveries for numerous Connecticut victims of sexual assault and sexual abuse, as well as victims of sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace.  He has filed and handled many high profile civil cases in Connecticut against priests, therapists and Boy Scout leaders on behalf of clients who were victims of sexual abuse while minors. He has also represented adult victims of devastating sexual assaults.  In connection with his representation of Connecticut victims of sexual assault, Paul is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association's Committee for Victims of Crime.

Business Disputes and Commercial Litigation

Paul also represents small businesses and individuals as plaintiffs in significant cases involving business disputes or commercial litigation. Before joining Silver Golub & Teitell, he was a litigation and trial lawyer in Chicago , where his practice focused primarily on complex commercial litigation, including business torts, contract disputes and securities litigation.

Paul has successfully represented his business clients in trials, hearings, arbitrations and mediations around the country. He is admitted to practice law in the state courts of Connecticut, New York and Illinois, and has handled or assisted in cases pending in the state or federal courts of Connecticut, New York, Illinois, Delaware, Georgia, Montana and South Dakota. He has also worked on a number of appeals, and successfully argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago .

Background

Paul received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, and his undergraduate degree from the Honors College of the University of Michigan .   He is admitted to the State Bars of Connecticut , New York and Illinois . Paul is also admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the District of Connecticut, Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York and the Northern District of Illinois (including the Trial Bar), as well as the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second and Seventh Circuits.

He is an active member of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, currently serving as a member of the Continuing Legal Education Committee, the Medical Malpractice Committee and on the Editorial Board of The Forum publication. Before leaving Chicago , Paul Slager was honored by the Chicago Legal Clinic for the Disabled for providing legal services to indigent disabled clients.

Cases in the News

A number of Paul's cases have been featured in the media, and links to
some of these cases follows:

Ernie Teitell & Paul Slager Recover $5M for Physicians Widow, July 30th, 2007

Ernie Teitell & Paul Slager Win $2.2M Settlement In Subway Restaurant Case, April, 16th, 2007

Ernie Teitell & Paul Slager Represent Day Care Abuse Victims

Second Abuse Victim Sues Scouts, January 27th, 2006

Paul Slager Files Boy Scout Lawsuit, July 19th, 2005

Paul Slager Files Lawnmower Amputation Suit, February 23rd, 2005

Op Ed, Paul Slager On Priestly Privilege, January 23rd, 2005

Ernie Teitell & Paul Slager Help Abuse Victim, Hold Bridgeport Diocese Accountable, January 19, 2005