Attorney Paul J. Klehm is a seasoned attorney with over thirty years of civil litigation experience. Paul has a significant amount of trial experience at the state and federal levels, representing individuals and small businesses in civil matters. He represents clients in, among other things, business disputes, serious personal injury matters, civil rights/police misconduct matters, and employment matters. With the help of the entire law firm, he won a $5.25 million jury verdict in a federal civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act trial on behalf of a business client. Paul has argued appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Massachusetts Court of Appeals. Paul has practiced law in Massachusetts state courts since 1992, and in the Massachusetts federal courts since 1993. Paul was admitted to the state and federal bars of the State of New Hampshire in 2002. He has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation (MBF) since 2022, and he has served as the Secretary of the MBF since 2024. He has served on grant application review committees for the MBF for many years, and he has chaired the MBF’s Northeast Regional Committee since 2023. Paul has served as the chairperson of the MBF’s Legal Intern Fellowship Program Committee since 2025. He served on the MBF’s Innovation Grant Committee from 2023 to 2025. In 2020, Paul was awarded the MBF’s President’s Award, which honors commitment to the work of the MBF. Paul has served as a member of the House of Delegates for the Massachusetts Bar Association (MBA) since 2019, and he served on the MBA’s Executive Management Board from 2023 to 2025. Paul is a past Chair of the MBA’s Civil Litigation Council, and he has served on that Council from 2014 to 2021, and 2023 to the present. Paul judges rounds of the MBA Mock Trial Competition and volunteers regularly for its Dial-A-Lawyer program, where individuals call in with legal questions. Paul is a Past President of the Lawrence Bar Association (LBA) and, from 2006 to 2017, he served on the Executive Committee of the LBA. Paul has spoken at several seminars over the years, on such varied topics as police misconduct and business litigation. Areas of Practice Business Litigation Civil Rights/Police Misconduct Personal Injury Litigation Percentage 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation Bar Admissions Massachusetts, 1992 New Hampshire, 2002 U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts, 1993 U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 1995 U.S. District Court District of New Hampshire, 2002 U.S. Supreme Court, 2009 Education Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts J.D. ( Cum Laude ) – 1992 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT B.A. – 1989 Professional Associations and Memberships Lawrence Bar Association : Past President (2014), past member of Executive Committee (2007-2017), Member of Nomination Committee (various years, 2015 to 2023, 2025) Massachusetts Bar Association : Civil Litigation Council (2014-2021, 2023 to present), Chair of Civil Litigation Council (2019-2021), Executive Management Board (2023-2025), House of Delegates (2019-present), Lawyer Referral Service Committee (2024 to present) Massachusetts Bar Foundation : Secretary (2024 to present), Trustee (2022 to present), Oliver Wendell Holmes Fellow (2022-present), Chair, Northeast Regional Committee (2023 to present), National Trial Lawyers : Member, Top 100 (Massachusetts) (2011 to present) Honors and Awards Massachusetts Bar Foundation : President’s Award (2020) Litigation Counsel of America : Fellow (2019 to present) Massachusetts Super Lawyers : named for business litigation, listed by Thomson Reuters (2016 to present) Martindale-Hubbell : AV Pre-eminent peer rating Boston Magazine : Top Lawyers, Civil Rights, selected by peer recognition (2021 to present)
