Background
PAUL, WILLIAM was born in Ma 1930 in Pauls Valley, Oklaho.
PAUL, WILLIAM was born in Ma 1930 in Pauls Valley, Oklaho.
University of Oklahoma (Bachelor of Arts, 1952. Juris Doctor, 1956). Phi Delta Phi. Order of the Coif; Phi Beta Kappa.
Article and Book Editor, Oklahoma Law Review, 1954-1956.
Recipient, Distinguished Service Citation, University of Oklahoma, 1985. Director, American Bar Endowment, since 1986.
Chair, Law Center Advisory Board, College of Law, University of Oklahoma, 1977-1978. Member, Martindale-Hubbell Legal Advisory Board, since 1990.
Member, Martindale-Hubbell Legal Advisory Board, since 1990.
With United States Marine Corps, active duty 19521954. Colonel, United States Marine Corps Reserve. Working as a partner of LEGAL DIVISION. Admitted to the bar, 1956, Oklahoma.
1957, United States.
District Court, Western, Northern and Eastern Districts of Oklahoma. 1958, United States. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit. 1970, United States. Supreme Court.
1985, United States.
Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Oklahoma County (President, 1971), Oklahoma (President, 1976) and American (Member: Long Range Program and Financial Committee, since 1988. Coordinating Committee on Professionalism, since 1986. House of Delegates, 1975-1977 and since 1979.
State Delegate from Oklahoma, since 1986.
Council, Section of Litigation, since 1989. Committee on Corporate Law Departments, Section of Business Law, since 1986) Bar Associations.
National Conference of Bar Presidents (President, 1985-1986). American Law Institute.
Order of the Barristers.
The Southwestern Legal Foundation (Trustee, since 1982). Fellows of the American Bar Foundation (Chairman, 1990-1991). Life Benefactor Fellow, American Bar Foundation (Director, since 1988).
Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers.
[With United States Marine Corps, active duty 19521954. Colonel, United States Marine Corps Reserve].
(Senior Vice-President and General Counsel).