Paul A Mones

For over 25  years my practice has been primarily  limited to issues affecting the rights and treatment of children and teens.  I work as a trial attorney and expert consultant on a whole host of criminal and civil matters relating to children including   teens who commit homicide,  family  and institutional sexual  abuse of youth, the mental health care of children and teens and the treatment of children in custody cases. The primary focus of my criminal work is on patricide and matricide cases. I wrote the landmark book on patricide and matricide entitled, When A Child Kills: Abuse Children Who Kill Their Parents (Pocketbooks 1991).  This book has been cited as an authoritative  source by appellate courts in Washington and Maryland.  Since the early 1980’s, I have worked throughout the United States on numerous patricide and matricide cases. In addition, my criminal work also includes other types of intra-family homicides.  

My primary   work in the civil arena concerns litigation against institutions like schools, religious groups and youth organizations in which children and teens are sexually abused. These institutions have included the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts.

In conjunction with my work and expertise, I have  also appeared numerous national television interview shows such as 60 Minutes, 20/20, 48 Hours, CNN News, Court TV, Oprah Winfrey, Frontlines, the Today Show, CBS Evening News, Fox News, Dr. Phil and Larry King. And interviews with me have appeared in newspapers and magazines throughout the nation (as well as overseas) including the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News,  Las Vegas Review Journal,  Newsweek, the New Yorker and Time Magazine. 

In June, 1991, I was honored to be selected by the American Bar Association as one of twenty young attorneys in the nation, "who have done something with their lives and legal skills to make a difference." In August, 1993, I was again honored to receive the ABA’s Livingston Hall Juvenile Justice Award. Presented to me by then Attorney General Janet Reno, the award is given annually to one attorney in the United States   for his or her, "Outstanding contributions and long term commitment to juvenile justice reform and promoting the rights of the child."

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