David M. Paul is a lawyer with the law firm of Berger & Lagnese, LLC. Mr. Paul represents people who have been injured or killed as a result of medical malpractice, defective products, motor vehicles, and unsafe property. Mr. Paul has worked on numerous cases involving failure to diagnose and treat colon cancer, lung cancer, cervical cancer, brain injury, and surgical error, including mistakes made during surgery to treat carpal tunnel syndrome.  Mr. Paul also has extensive experience representing victims of  defamation.

Mr. Paul graduated with from the College of Wooster in 1985.  While at Wooster, Mr. Paul received the Elias Compton Freshman Prize, the Mary Allen Sanborn Prize, and Jonas O. Notestine Award, given to the graduating senior who achieved the highest level of scholarship over the four year college course.  He graduated with highest honors, both overall and in his major.  Mr. Paul was also inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

Mr. Paul went on to receive a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy in 1990 from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.  He received his J.D. with honors from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1993.  While at Pitt Law, Mr. Paul was a Law Fellows Scholar, and an associate editor at the Journal of Law and Commerce.  He was the recipient of the 1992 William H. Eckert Prize for superior legal writing, and he published a note in the University of Pittsburgh Law Review (54 U.Pitt.L.Rev. 893 (1993)).

Upon completing law school, Mr. Paul served as judicial clerk to the Honorable Alan N. Bloch of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1993-94) and as judicial clerk to the Honorable Timothy K. Lewis, formerly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1994-95).  After working a year and a half at the prestigious Pittsburgh law firm of Cohen & Grigsby, Mr. Paul was given an opportunity to become a trial lawyer on the plaintiffs' side at the law firm of Berger & Lagnese.


Mr. Paul was raised in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.  He graduated from Franklin Regional High School in 1980.  While in high school, Mr. Paul was a three year starter on the boys varsity basketball team, and a three year letterman in track and field.  He was voted "Best All Around" by his senior class.

Mr. Paul is married with four children, ranging in age from 15 to 3.  Mr. Paul's hobbies include reading, walking, creative writing, and biking.  Mr. Paul is fluent in Spanish and has lived extensively abroad, including Chile, Spain, Puerto Rico, and India.