Paul George
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Paul George recently joined Whitaker Chalk in 2007. He has been involved in complex business litigation in federal and state courts in Texas and Oklahoma. Paul has over twenty years’ teaching experience, including Agency & Partnership, Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, Conflict of Laws, Federal Courts, International Law, and International Litigation. He is author of The Federal Courthouse Door—A Guide to Federal Jurisdiction and Venue, a contributor to MacMillan’s Major Acts of Congress, and author of twenty-four law review articles. Additionally, Paul is a frequent speaker in local and national law programs.

• Columbia University, LL.M. 1983
• University of Tulsa, J.D. 1978
• Oklahoma State University, B.A. 1973

• Texas (all state and federal courts)
• Oklahoma Bar (all state and federal courts)
• Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
• United States Court of Federal Claims (Washington, D.C.).

• American Law Institute
• American Society of Comparative Law (Board of Directors, 1999– )
• Center for American and International Law, formerly the Southwestern Legal Foundation (Advisory Board, International & Comparative Law Institute, 1999– )
• Mahon Inn of Court, Fort Worth, Texas (Master Emeritus)
• Tarrant County Bar Association
• Dallas Bar Association
• Texas Bar Foundation

• Shirley Zabel Outstanding Law Professor Award (Wesleyan Alumni Association, May, 2007)
• Columbia Associate in Law teaching Legal Method (1981-83)
• Full scholarship at Columbia for graduate legal study
• Law clerk to Chief Judge H. Dale Cook, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma (1979-80)
• Justice Department Honors Program, U.S. Attorney’s office, Tulsa (1977)
• Tulsa Law Review (1976-78)

• Association of American Law Schools Annual Convention, address on Access to Justice, January 4, 2007
• University of Houston Law Center, Collecting Debts and Judgments—address on Enforcing Judgments Across State and National Boundaries, Dallas & Houston, August, 2004, 2005, 2006
• Texas Wesleyan University School of Law—moderator for Doing Business in the European Union, City Place Conference Center, Dallas, March 25, 2004
• University of Oklahoma College of Law—moderator for Winning the Federal Case Before Trial, Cox Convention Center, Oklahoma City, December 19, 2003; City Place Conference Center, Dallas, Texas, January 14, 2005; Cox Convention Center, Oklahoma City, December 13, 2005 and December 15, 2006
• Texas A&M University—Wiley Lecture Series, moderator and speaker for International Justice (discussing the International Criminal Court), November 20, 2002
• Association of American Law Schools Annual Convention, address on International Parallel Litigation — A Survey of Conventions and Model Laws, January 4, 2002
• American Society of Comparative Law 50th Anniversary Meeting, address on International Parallel Litigation, October 5, 2001
• North American International Trade Corridor Partnership, organized and moderated half- day business law program with ten speakers at NAFTA trade convention in Fort Worth, May 10, 2001
• Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, Asian Judicial Institute, lecture on American legal process—Fort Worth, July 2000-2007
• Estado de Mexico Justice Center, Toluca, Mexico, address on Federalism in United States Courts, March 28, 2000

• Oklahoma State University Alumni Association