Jim Paul, a Shareholder in Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., has extensive experience in handling labor and employment law litigation in federal and state courts, and before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Department of Justice, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and several state agencies. He also regularly advises employers on all labor and human resource management issues in an effort to prevent or resolve employee issues before they escalate into legal disputes.
Prior to his private practice of law, Mr. Paul served as a Missouri Assistant Attorney General. As Assistant Attorney General, he represented the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, the Missouri Division of Labor Standards, and the Missouri Commission on Human Rights by enforcing state wage and hour laws, and discrimination laws. He also worked in Washington, D.C. on legislative issues for the late Missouri Governor Carnahan and has taught Trial Advocacy at Saint Louis University as an Adjunct Professor.
Mr. Paul served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Ray Price, Jr. of the Missouri Supreme Court. He received his B.S.B.A., summa cum laude, from Saint Louis University and his J.D. from Washington University.