Paul Turkevich is a trial lawyer who handles high-stakes 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 the Fall of 2024, Paul secured a $25.9 Million jury verdict against a Fortune 100 healthcare company for breach of a partnership agreement. In 2023, he secured a jury verdict for Houston trial lawyer icon David Berg in a breach of contract dispute brought by a former associate. Recently, he defeated a large healthcare company’s request for an injunction related to a non-compete covenant that would have prevented his client from performing surgeries at her chosen hospital.
Since 2021, 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 of the United States District 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 cases or facing revocation before the U.S. Parole Commission. He also helped submit two clemency petitions to President Obama, securing early release of both clients 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 high-stakes 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 the Fall of 2024, Paul secured a $25.9 Million jury verdict against a Fortune 100 healthcare company for breach of a partnership agreement. In 2023, he secured a jury verdict for Houston trial lawyer icon David Berg in a breach of contract dispute brought by a former associate. Recently, he defeated a large healthcare company’s request for an injunction related to a non-compete covenant that would have prevented his client from performing surgeries at her chosen hospital.
Since 2021, 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 of the United States District 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 cases or facing revocation before the U.S. Parole Commission. He also helped submit two clemency petitions to President Obama, securing early release of both clients 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 for the a group of orthopedic surgeons from 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. Jury Says No Back Wages for Former First-Year Associate Pfeiffer.
- Defended orthopedic surgeon in non-compete dispute defeating her former practice group’s applications for a temporary restraining order and temporary injunction
- Represents Ryan, LLC, a tax-consultancy company in a trade secret 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 Targa in a complex breach dispute against the international trading firm, Vitol, defeating claims of over $250 Million in a 6-week bench trial.
- 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.
- 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
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, 2021-2024
PRESENTATIONS
- “Trials, Depositions, Hearings, and other Remote Proceedings,” State Bar of Texas Webinar, December 2020
IN THE NEWS
- 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 for the a group of orthopedic surgeons from 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. Jury Says No Back Wages for Former First-Year Associate Pfeiffer.
- Defended orthopedic surgeon in non-compete dispute defeating her former practice group’s applications for a temporary restraining order and temporary injunction
- Represents Ryan, LLC, a tax-consultancy company in a trade secret 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 Targa in a complex breach dispute against the international trading firm, Vitol, defeating claims of over $250 Million in a 6-week bench trial.
- 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.
- 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
- 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, 2021-2024
- “Trials, Depositions, Hearings, and other Remote Proceedings,” State Bar of Texas Webinar, December 2020
- 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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