I met Paul back in 1992 as a member of the organization he founded, the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA). He and his vision were inspirational, building a “nationwide law firm” of civil rights employee advocates. His gathering of us from all 50 states allowed us to go up against the largest corporations in the world on behalf of our clients and win. With his support, I founded the New Hampshire chapter of NELA and it has had an outsized impact on the state’s law via amicus briefs, litigation teamwork and legislative action. All in all, NELA allowed this solo practitioner to have the life and career she wanted, always knowing there were 4,000 “partners” to help, when needed (and boy did I).
At the beginning of our annual NELA conventions (where Paul always organized road races and tennis matches) he would enthusiastically do the “Call of the States” and he’d go down the list of states alphabetically and when your state was called, you stood up and made noise. Well, since I was told I had the loudest whistle in Fenway Park, (and James Carville told me it was the best campaign whistle he had ever heard), I knew … Read More