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Paul M. Pohl (Mickey)
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Paul Michael (“Mickey”) Pohl is head of Jones Day’s product liability and tort litigation practice worldwide.
He graduated from Princeton University in 1970, where he won the Lyman Atwater Prize in Politics, was nominated by Princeton for a Rhodes Scholarship, and received a National Science Foundation Grant for post-graduate research. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during 1971-72, and received the Navy Achievement Medal for his service at Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps in Washington, D.C. Mickey graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1975, was the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, and won the Gourley Cup Trial Competition sponsored by the Allegheny County Bar Association. As a third-year law student he served as an intern to Judge Joseph Weis of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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Following his graduation from Law School, he served a one-year clerkship for Mr. Justice Roberts of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. He joined Jones Day in 1976 and became a partner on January 1, 1983. He was Partner-in-Charge of the Pittsburgh Office from 1989 to 2003 when he then assumed certain worldwide responsibilities within Jones Day.
With more than 30 years of litigation experience in a wide variety of cases around the globe, he has become the quintessential first-chair, big case litigator. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America (2011 ed.) in three categories: bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation and product liability litigation. The BTI Consulting Group named him to its Client Service All Star Team based on its survey of law departments of Fortune 500 companies. He is a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer and was the subject of a profile in that publication in 2009. In June 2011, the US Legal 500 publication ranked Jones Day a “first tier” firm in many areas, including product liability and mass tort defense: toxic tort. Mickey was named one of the three “leading lawyers” in product liability & tort litigation in the United States. He also has considerable experience in counseling corporations, nonprofit entities, and their senior executives on litigation avoidance and dispute resolution issues.
During the course of his career Mickey has dealt effectively with courts in numerous jurisdictions, having tried cases in Florida, Montana, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, and Rhode Island and as counsel of record in jury cases in Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Texas, Washington, D.C., Michigan, Illinois, Puerto Rico, Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia, Louisiana, and Minnesota. He has also counseled clients on U.S. litigation questions in Europe, South America, the Far East, the Caribbean, and in North Africa.
Mickey has extensive appellate experience having argued cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Eleventh, and District of Columbia Circuits; in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and Ohio; the Maryland Court of Appeals; and in the intermediate appellate courts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Maryland, and Missouri. In 2001, he was appointed by the judges of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania as their selection to serve on the Lawyers Advisory Committee of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He served as chairman of that committee in 2002. He was appointed by the Justices of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to serve on its Continuing Legal Education Board, where he served as the secretary-treasurer.
He has made frequent television guest appearances on litigation matters and appeared in a feature on MTV concerning the presidential election and his role as a legal advisor to Steve Forbes. He has been quoted in numerous publications, including Forbes Magazine, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal on developments in the law and politics. He was profiled in the November 1995 issue of The American Lawyer for his victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals in a case where his client was suing an Assistant U.S. Attorney and U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents. He was part of the litigation team that represented Ronald Reagan in one of the first cases in the United States under the Federal Election Campaign Laws. He was employed briefly as a newspaper reporter prior to entering military service.
He has served as a member of the Alumni Council of Princeton University and was the graduate president of the Princeton Class of 1970 from 1990 to 1995. He has consulted on projects in Europe, and in 2003 was named a Knight of St. Gregory the Great by the Vatican.
When the American Lawyer magazine named Jones Day the “Best Litigation Department in America” in January 2002, his victories in more than 30 General Electric cases were cited. Also cited was the lead paint litigation in which Jones Day represents The Sherwin-Williams Company. This is a multi-jurisdiction, multi-office project where Mickey heads the Jones Day team. When Jones Day was named as “The Best Firm” in the nation in product liability, certain of his cases were featured, and he was pictured in the article. He serves on the Board of Rand Corporation’s Institute for Civil Justice. He currently teaches and lectures at courses on Leadership and Ethics for the United States Marine Corps.
He was designated by the United States Golf Association and Oakmont Country Club to serve as chairman of the 2007 United States Open, which was held at Oakmont.
With more than 30 years of litigation experience in a wide variety of cases around the globe, he has become the quintessential first-chair, big case litigator. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America (2011 ed.) in three categories: bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation and product liability litigation. The BTI Consulting Group named him to its Client Service All Star Team based on its survey of law departments of Fortune 500 companies. He is a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer and was the subject of a profile in that publication in 2009. In June 2011, the US Legal 500 publication ranked Jones Day a “first tier” firm in many areas, including product liability and mass tort defense: toxic tort. Mickey was named one of the three “leading lawyers” in product liability & tort litigation in the United States. He also has considerable experience in counseling corporations, nonprofit entities, and their senior executives on litigation avoidance and dispute resolution issues.
During the course of his career Mickey has dealt effectively with courts in numerous jurisdictions, having tried cases in Florida, Montana, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, and Rhode Island and as counsel of record in jury cases in Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Texas, Washington, D.C., Michigan, Illinois, Puerto Rico, Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia, Louisiana, and Minnesota. He has also counseled clients on U.S. litigation questions in Europe, South America, the Far East, the Caribbean, and in North Africa.
Mickey has extensive appellate experience having argued cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Eleventh, and District of Columbia Circuits; in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and Ohio; the Maryland Court of Appeals; and in the intermediate appellate courts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Maryland, and Missouri. In 2001, he was appointed by the judges of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania as their selection to serve on the Lawyers Advisory Committee of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He served as chairman of that committee in 2002. He was appointed by the Justices of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to serve on its Continuing Legal Education Board, where he served as the secretary-treasurer.
He has made frequent television guest appearances on litigation matters and appeared in a feature on MTV concerning the presidential election and his role as a legal advisor to Steve Forbes. He has been quoted in numerous publications, including Forbes Magazine, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal on developments in the law and politics. He was profiled in the November 1995 issue of The American Lawyer for his victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals in a case where his client was suing an Assistant U.S. Attorney and U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents. He was part of the litigation team that represented Ronald Reagan in one of the first cases in the United States under the Federal Election Campaign Laws. He was employed briefly as a newspaper reporter prior to entering military service.
He has served as a member of the Alumni Council of Princeton University and was the graduate president of the Princeton Class of 1970 from 1990 to 1995. He has consulted on projects in Europe, and in 2003 was named a Knight of St. Gregory the Great by the Vatican.
When the American Lawyer magazine named Jones Day the “Best Litigation Department in America” in January 2002, his victories in more than 30 General Electric cases were cited. Also cited was the lead paint litigation in which Jones Day represents The Sherwin-Williams Company. This is a multi-jurisdiction, multi-office project where Mickey heads the Jones Day team. When Jones Day was named as “The Best Firm” in the nation in product liability, certain of his cases were featured, and he was pictured in the article. He serves on the Board of Rand Corporation’s Institute for Civil Justice. He currently teaches and lectures at courses on Leadership and Ethics for the United States Marine Corps.
He was designated by the United States Golf Association and Oakmont Country Club to serve as chairman of the 2007 United States Open, which was held at Oakmont.
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