Paul R. Norman

Paul has over 40 years of experience in commercial litigation and business transactions. His litigation experience includes antitrust, business tort, contract, dealership, franchise, and intellectual property disputes before federal and state courts, administrative agencies and arbitration panels throughout the United States. 

Paul also has extensive experience in counseling clients on product distribution and other business issues, drafting contracts and representing clients in business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and business financing. He has specific experience in the automotive industry where he has often represented sellers and buyers in transfers of automotive and/or truck dealerships

Paul is one of the country’s leading authorities on automotive distribution and franchise issues and has written and spoken on many occasion to dealer and attorney groups on these issues. He has authored several amicus curiae briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts for the National Automobile Dealers Association and has served on panels for the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section regarding automotive distribution issues.

Paul currently chairs the Boardman & Clark LLP Litigation Practice Group and is also a member of the firm’s Business, Dealership and Emerging Companies Practice Groups.