Paul R. Taskier’s professional life has been devoted to the practice of law at Dickstein Shapiro, which he joined in 1983. Mr. Taskier was elected to the partnership in 1990. His practice consists primarily of large, multiparty civil litigation in federal and state courts across the nation. For more than 20 years, his practice has encompassed cases in such diverse areas as antitrust, insurance coverage, reinsurance arbitration, defamation, intellectual property, and licensing disputes, as well as major commercial disputes and contract actions, and related appellate litigation. In February 2008, he was the lead litigator in Saffran v. Boston Scientific Corp., a patent infringement action in which he was trial counsel on the damages portion of the case, which returned the sixth largest patent judgment in U.S. history, according to The Wall Street Journal. He has represented Tyson Foods and others in multidistrict antitrust litigation, and Arthur Andersen LLP, McDonald’s Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Ogden Corporation, and Pfizer Inc in major insurance coverage litigation. Moreover, his practice encompasses representation of foreign entities and individuals in the U.S. courts and in U.S. and international arbitration tribunals.

Bar Admissions

District of Columbia
New York
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Tax Court

Education

Tufts University, B.A., 1978, cum laude
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1982