Academy Member Inducted 2021
Map & DirectionsPaul D. Clote
Diplomate member609 Main St.
Suite 2800
Houston, TX 77002
Available
- Practice Commenced2015
- # of MEDS (as of 3/11/24)725
- # of ARBS (as of 3/11/24)3
Current Practice
Online / In-Person
- AUSTIN
- BEAUMONT-PORT ARTHUR
- COLLEGE STATION-BRYAN
- CORPUS-CHISTI-KINGSVILLE
- DALLAS-FORT WORTH METROPLEX
- HOUSTON
- LONGVIEW
- MIDLAND-ODESSA
- SAN ANTONIO
- TYLER-JACKSONVILLE
- WACO
Biographical
Paul has been a litigation attorney handling trials and appeals for more than four decades. His cases involve commercial and business disputes across a variety of industries. He has tried to verdict in both state and federal courts, cases entailing fiduciary duties; partnership termination and windup; letters of credit; business fraud and civil theft; trust account funds; broker commissions; ERISA disability benefits; child abuse; minimum wage and overtime claims; oil and gas operating agreements; and an election contest. He has argued appeals in the 5th Circuit, Texas Supreme Court and Texas Courts of Appeal.
Paul also serves as a mediator, arbitrator and special master in complex commercial cases in Houston, Austin and Central Texas.
Paul has served as an Adjunct Professor in Mediation and Conflict Resolution at Rice University; a Visiting Professor in Commercial Arbitration at the National Law Academy of Odessa, Ukraine; and at the University of Debrecen (Hungary) School of Law.
Case Experience
- ADA Disability
- Anti-Trust
- Appellate
- Banking & Finance
- Business Dissolution
- Class Actions
- Commercial/Business
- Construction
- Consumer Fraud
- Contract Disputes
- Cross Cultural
- Employment
- Energy Sector (Oil/Gas)
- ERISA
- Health Care
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- Labor/Unions
- Landlord/Tenant
- Legal Malpractice
- Medical Malpractice
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mining
- Personal Injury
- Probate
- Product Liability
- Professional Fees
- Professional Liability
- Professional Malpractice
- Professional Negligence
- Real Estate
- Securities
- Shareholder Disputes
- Title Disputes
- Torts
- Trademarks/Patents
- Transportation
- Trusts / Estates
- Unfair Competition
- Wage & Hour/FMLA
Education
- University of Texas School of Law, J.D., 1977 (with honors)
- Northwestern University, B.A., 1974
Memberships & Affiliations
- Bar admission Texas
- Bar admission Colorado
- Supreme Court of the United States of America
- United States District Courts for the Southern, Northern, Western and Eastern Districts of Texas
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits
Rates Information
Please call my assistant, Robin Brokaw 713 615 8522; or 713 725 1017