Paul Turkevich is a trial lawyer who handles complex disputes across a variety of practice areas, including energy, healthcare, trade secrets, breach of contract, environmental, personal injury, and class actions. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts and arbitration panels across the country in all stages of litigation, including pre-suit, injunction, discovery, summary judgment, trial, and appeals.
In 2024, Paul secured Harris County’s largest jury verdict for a commercial case: $25.9 Million—every penny that he asked the jury to award during his closing argument. AZA Won Largest 2024 Harris County Jury Verdict in Commercial Litigation
The prior year, he secured a unanimous take-nothing jury verdict after less than an hour of deliberations. Paul defended trial lawyer icon David Berg in a breach of contract dispute brought by a former associate. Jury Says No Back Wages for Former First-Year Associate Pfeiffer.
In addition to trial work, he has secured and defeated applications for expedited injunctive relief in cases involving trade secret theft and restrictive covenants. In 2020, he secured a temporary restraining order and later a temporary injunction for the tax consultancy company, Ryan, LLC, requiring the global accounting firm Ernst & Young to return workpapers they had obtained during financial audits. Recently, he helped defeat Kelsey-Seybold’s applications for a temporary restraining order and injunction that would have prevented Paul’s client from performing surgeries at the hospital of her choice.
For five straight years, he’s been named on the annual Texas Rising Stars list for his excellence in business litigation. Rising Stars, which is compiled by Thomson Reuters’ Texas Super Lawyers, honoring leading attorneys aged 40 and younger and those who have been in practice no more than 10 years.
Before joining AZA, he served as a law clerk to Magistrate Judge Dena Hanovice Palermo on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
He graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center and was a student-attorney in the Criminal Defense & Prisoner Advocacy Clinic. He represented nearly a dozen clients with pending criminal charges or facing revocation before the U.S. Parole Commission. He also submitted two clemency petitions to President Obama, securing the early release of both clients who were serving life sentences.
Before law school, he was an investigator for five years with the nation’s premier public defender office in Washington, D.C., where he conducted hundreds of witness interviews and helped prepare for dozens of jury trials in murder, sexual assault, and robbery cases.
Paul Turkevich is a trial lawyer who handles complex disputes across a variety of practice areas, including energy, healthcare, trade secrets, breach of contract, environmental, personal injury, and class actions. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts and arbitration panels across the country in all stages of litigation, including pre-suit, injunction, discovery, summary judgment, trial, and appeals.
In 2024, Paul secured Harris County’s largest jury verdict for a commercial case: $25.9 Million—every penny that he asked the jury to award during his closing argument. AZA Won Largest 2024 Harris County Jury Verdict in Commercial Litigation
The prior year, he secured a unanimous take-nothing jury verdict after less than an hour of deliberations. Paul defended trial lawyer icon David Berg in a breach of contract dispute brought by a former associate. Jury Says No Back Wages for Former First-Year Associate Pfeiffer.
In addition to trial work, he has secured and defeated applications for expedited injunctive relief in cases involving trade secret theft and restrictive covenants. In 2020, he secured a temporary restraining order and later a temporary injunction for the tax consultancy company, Ryan, LLC, requiring the global accounting firm Ernst & Young to return workpapers they had obtained during financial audits. Recently, he helped defeat Kelsey-Seybold’s applications for a temporary restraining order and injunction that would have prevented Paul’s client from performing surgeries at the hospital of her choice.
For five straight years, he’s been named on the annual Texas Rising Stars list for his excellence in business litigation. Rising Stars, which is compiled by Thomson Reuters’ Texas Super Lawyers, honoring leading attorneys aged 40 and younger and those who have been in practice no more than 10 years.
Before joining AZA, he served as a law clerk to Magistrate Judge Dena Hanovice Palermo on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
He graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center and was a student-attorney in the Criminal Defense & Prisoner Advocacy Clinic. He represented nearly a dozen clients with pending criminal charges or facing revocation before the U.S. Parole Commission. He also submitted two clemency petitions to President Obama, securing the early release of both clients who were serving life sentences.
Before law school, he was an investigator for five years with the nation’s premier public defender office in Washington, D.C., where he conducted hundreds of witness interviews and helped prepare for dozens of jury trials in murder, sexual assault, and robbery cases.
REPRESENTATIVE CASES
- Won a four-week jury trial in a complex breach of contract case against HCA Healthcare, a Fortune 100 company, securing over $37 Million in damages, interest, and fees for a group of surgeons within the Fondren Orthopedic Group. AZA Wins $25.6 Million Jury Verdict for Healthcare Client.
- Represented trial lawyer icon David Berg in a breach of contract dispute brought by a former associate. The jury returned a unanimous take-nothing verdict for Mr. Berg after only 60 minutes of deliberations. https://texaslawbook.net/jury-says-berg-androphy-cofounder-owes-nothing-to-ex-associate/
- Defending individual orthopedic surgeon and orthopedic group in non-compete and trade secret dispute with former employer.
- Recently secured a class action settlement in Maryland state court with prospective relief that continues to protect the privacy of hundreds of thousands of patients at University of Maryland Medical System, one of the largest healthcare systems in the Mid-Atlantic.
- Represented Targa in a complex breach of contract dispute against the international trading firm, Vitol, defeating claims of over $250 Million in a 6-week bench trial.
- Represented Ryan, LLC, a tax-consultancy company, in a trade secret lawsuit against the international accounting firm, Ernst & Young. Paul drafted, argued, and defeated multiple motions to dismiss, removal to federal court, and appeals. This case is currently pending in Texas state court.
- Represented a large oil and gas production company in an MDL that consolidated hundreds of wrongful death and property damage cases stemming from Winterstorm Uri in 2021. He helped secure the early dismissal of his client that the plaintiffs abandoned without appealing.
- Represented an international fuel terminal company in multidistrict litigation in which the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania alleged widespread MTBE contamination of its waters. Paul secured an early settlement, saving his client from a decade-plus of costly litigation.
- Represented an independent exploration and production company in a personal injury dispute. Weeks after AZA was hired, AZA secured a favorable settlement.
- Represented a remediation company in a complex personal injury dispute in Louisiana state court. The case settled favorably for Paul’s client shortly after being hired.
- Represented a group of investors in breach of contract and fraud dispute relating to oil and gas mineral leases in Oklahoma state court.\
- Obtained a defense verdict in a two-week bench trial for a national fuel marketing company sued for millions of dollars for breach of a trucking contract.
- Represented a construction company accused of damaging a retaining wall in the Port of Houston. Paul secured the early dismissal of his client after a few months of being retained.
- Represented an international engineering, construction, and procurement company as the plaintiff in a trade secret and breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit against a former executive with claimed damages in excess of $100 million. After defeating the defendants’ motions for summary judgment, the case settled favorably for Paul’s client after jury selection.
- Obtained a favorable settlement following jury selection in state court on behalf of an enterprise-software company against a large health-insurance company in a case involving contract and declaratory-judgment claims in excess of $2 million.
- Represented a bulk liquids terminaling company former executive in a non-compete and trade secret dispute.
EDUCATION
- Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., magna cum laude
- Top 2% of graduating class
- Order of the Coif
- Michael Feldman Trial Advocacy Award
- Tulane University, B.A., 2008
- Men’s Soccer Club President
- Tulane Theater Set Technician
- Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity
ADMISSIONS
- State Bar of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, and Seventh Circuit
- United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Texas Rising Star honors as presented by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters Business, 2021-2025
PRESENTATIONS
- “Trials, Depositions, Hearings, and other Remote Proceedings,” State Bar of Texas Webinar, December 2020
IN THE NEWS
- Twenty-Four AZA Lawyers Named 2025 Texas Super Lawyers & Rising Stars
- AZA Won Largest 2024 Harris County Jury Verdict in Commercial Litigation
- AZA Names Bai, Poelker and Turkevich as New Partners
- AZA Wins $25.6 Million Jury Verdict for Healthcare Client
- Thirteen AZA Attorneys Earn Texas Rising Stars Honor
- Ten AZA Lawyers on Texas Rising Stars List for 2022
- Eleven AZA Lawyers Make the 2021 Texas Rising Stars List
- Jury Asks to Award More Than Requested in Case AZA Joined on Eve of Trial
- Won a four-week jury trial in a complex breach of contract case against HCA Healthcare, a Fortune 100 company, securing over $37 Million in damages, interest, and fees for a group of surgeons within the Fondren Orthopedic Group. AZA Wins $25.6 Million Jury Verdict for Healthcare Client.
- Represented trial lawyer icon David Berg in a breach of contract dispute brought by a former associate. The jury returned a unanimous take-nothing verdict for Mr. Berg after only 60 minutes of deliberations. https://texaslawbook.net/jury-says-berg-androphy-cofounder-owes-nothing-to-ex-associate/
- Defending individual orthopedic surgeon and orthopedic group in non-compete and trade secret dispute with former employer.
- Recently secured a class action settlement in Maryland state court with prospective relief that continues to protect the privacy of hundreds of thousands of patients at University of Maryland Medical System, one of the largest healthcare systems in the Mid-Atlantic.
- Represented Targa in a complex breach of contract dispute against the international trading firm, Vitol, defeating claims of over $250 Million in a 6-week bench trial.
- Represented Ryan, LLC, a tax-consultancy company, in a trade secret lawsuit against the international accounting firm, Ernst & Young. Paul drafted, argued, and defeated multiple motions to dismiss, removal to federal court, and appeals. This case is currently pending in Texas state court.
- Represented a large oil and gas production company in an MDL that consolidated hundreds of wrongful death and property damage cases stemming from Winterstorm Uri in 2021. He helped secure the early dismissal of his client that the plaintiffs abandoned without appealing.
- Represented an international fuel terminal company in multidistrict litigation in which the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania alleged widespread MTBE contamination of its waters. Paul secured an early settlement, saving his client from a decade-plus of costly litigation.
- Represented an independent exploration and production company in a personal injury dispute. Weeks after AZA was hired, AZA secured a favorable settlement.
- Represented a remediation company in a complex personal injury dispute in Louisiana state court. The case settled favorably for Paul’s client shortly after being hired.
- Represented a group of investors in breach of contract and fraud dispute relating to oil and gas mineral leases in Oklahoma state court.\
- Obtained a defense verdict in a two-week bench trial for a national fuel marketing company sued for millions of dollars for breach of a trucking contract.
- Represented a construction company accused of damaging a retaining wall in the Port of Houston. Paul secured the early dismissal of his client after a few months of being retained.
- Represented an international engineering, construction, and procurement company as the plaintiff in a trade secret and breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit against a former executive with claimed damages in excess of $100 million. After defeating the defendants’ motions for summary judgment, the case settled favorably for Paul’s client after jury selection.
- Obtained a favorable settlement following jury selection in state court on behalf of an enterprise-software company against a large health-insurance company in a case involving contract and declaratory-judgment claims in excess of $2 million.
- Represented a bulk liquids terminaling company former executive in a non-compete and trade secret dispute.
- Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., magna cum laude
- Top 2% of graduating class
- Order of the Coif
- Michael Feldman Trial Advocacy Award
- Tulane University, B.A., 2008
- Men’s Soccer Club President
- Tulane Theater Set Technician
- Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity
- State Bar of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, and Seventh Circuit
- United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas
- Texas Rising Star honors as presented by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters Business, 2021-2025
- “Trials, Depositions, Hearings, and other Remote Proceedings,” State Bar of Texas Webinar, December 2020
- Twenty-Four AZA Lawyers Named 2025 Texas Super Lawyers & Rising Stars
- AZA Won Largest 2024 Harris County Jury Verdict in Commercial Litigation
- AZA Names Bai, Poelker and Turkevich as New Partners
- AZA Wins $25.6 Million Jury Verdict for Healthcare Client
- Thirteen AZA Attorneys Earn Texas Rising Stars Honor
- Ten AZA Lawyers on Texas Rising Stars List for 2022
- Eleven AZA Lawyers Make the 2021 Texas Rising Stars List
- Jury Asks to Award More Than Requested in Case AZA Joined on Eve of Trial
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