Paul G. Alvarez is an associate in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm's Washington D.C. office. He is a member of the Trial Department.
Prior to joining McDermott, Paul served as law clerk to the Honorable Royce C. Lamberth, United States District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. In August 2008, Paul will begin clerking for the Honorable David B. Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Prior to his clerkship with Judge Lamberth, Paul worked as a summer associate in the Washington, D.C. office of a large international law firm. Paul also spent a summer working as a law clerk in the Office of General Counsel at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
While attending Columbus School of Law, Paul had two papers published. He wrote Taking Back Miranda: How Seibert and Patane Can Keep "Question-First" and "Outside Miranda" Interrogation Tactics in Check and co-authored Life Sciences Companies Should Consider Whether They Need Product Recall Insurance in The Journal of Biolaw and Business. He also was a Note and Comment Editor on the Catholic University Law Review and a member of Catholic's moot arbitration team, which participated in the Thirteenth Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria. Additionally, Paul was a certified student attorney for the Families and the Law Clinic at Columbus Community Legal Services and was a first year legal writing tutor.
Paul is admitted to practice in New York, the District of Columbia and before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Education:
Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, J.D. (magna cum laude), 2006.
University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1998. |