Paul R. Taskier is a senior litigation partner at Dickstein Shapiro. Mr. Taskier has extensive experience in large, multiparty civil litigation in federal and state courts across the United States, as well as in international arbitrations. During his more than 25 years in practice, he has recovered billions of dollars in judgments and settlements, and handled cases encompassing antitrust, insurance coverage, international arbitration, defamation, intellectual property, and licensing disputes, as well as major commercial disputes and contract actions and related appellate litigation. He served on the firm’s Executive Committee from 2007 to 2011.

Among his recent victories, Mr. Taskier led the Dickstein Shapiro trial team which, in January 2011, secured a $482 million jury verdict—the largest of the year according to Lawyers USA—for the firm’s client in Saffran v. Johnson & Johnson and Cordis Corp., a patent infringement action in Texas federal court. His success on the case led the American Lawyer Litigation Daily to profile him as its “Litigator of the Week” on February 3, 2011. Two years earlier, Mr. Taskier helped secure a $431.9 million jury verdict on behalf of the same client in Saffran v. Boston Scientific Corp., serving as trial counsel in the damages portion of the case. In the fall of 2009, Mr. Taskier served as second chair, with the head of the firm’s Antitrust Practice, in a month-long jury trial, resulting in a verdict in favor of client ArvinMeritor. This matter was a several-hundred-million-dollar monopolization antitrust suit against a competitor in the heavy duty truck transmission industry.

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 Federal Circuit
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