Paul Stein



Paul Stein received a B.A. degree from the University of Maryland and a J.D. degree from the Washington College of Law of the American University. Mr. Stein is Board Certified as a civil and criminal trial advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and has received the International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award for superior proficiency in the Art and Science of Trial Advocacy. In March 2003, he was elected as a fellow to the American College of Trial Lawyers. Mr. Stein served in the States Attorneys' Office for Montgomery County, Maryland from 1970 to 1975, both as a paralegal and as an assistant state's attorney where he was responsible for the prosecution of serious felony matters and the management of a trial team. Mr. Stein has taught litigation to paralegals at the University of Maryland as well as criminal and family law to bar groups and the community. He currently teaches in the Trial Practice Program at the American University as an adjunct professor. Mr. Stein serves as a court-appointed mediator for the Circuit Court of Montgomery County and as a panel chair for medical malpractice hearings for the Maryland Health Claim Arbitration Office. Formerly, he served as Chairman of the Montgomery County Commission on Landlord and Tenant Affairs, as a member of the Executive Committee of the Montgomery County Bar Association, Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, as President of the Central Maryland Chapter of the United States Navy League, as a member of the Economic Development Commission for the City of Rockville, and as a member of the Board of Directors and Finance Committee of the Hebrew Home of Washington, D.C.