PThaler@ThalerLiebeler.com
 

Paul S. Thaler is a founding partner in Thaler Liebeler LLP and practices in the area of civil litigation.  His specialties include litigating matters in the fields of business law, employment law, and family law. Mr. Thaler has appeared in most of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area courts, both state and federal, as well as numerous federal courts across the country, defending and prosecuting claims for, among other things, breach of commercial contracts, scientific misconduct, theft of trade secrets, copyright infringement, unlawful discrimination, wrongful termination, workplace violence, and divorce.

 


In 2000, Mr. Thaler successfully litigated a case of first impression in the Commonwealth of Virginia concerning the ownership of an Internet domain name.  Mr. Thaler has handled scientific misconduct matters throughout the country (including cases in Maryland, Delaware, Colorado, Utah, North Carolina and Tennessee) and has become well-known in the scientific community for obtaining successful results for his clients.

Mr. Thaler has received an AV® rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating of legal ability and ethics given to attorneys in the United States.  The rating was the result of an extensive and confidential peer review by members of the Bar, including local judges.

He is also an adjunct professor at American University's Kogod School of Business, teaching courses in Business Ethics and Business Law since 1999.   

Mr. Thaler is a fifth-generation Washingtonian and graduated from St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.) in 1979.  He received his A.B. from Vassar College in 1983 and his J.D. from Georgetown University in 1987.  He is a member of the Washington, D.C. and Maryland bars.  Mr. Thaler is also admitted to the United States Supreme Court; the U.S. Circuit Courts for the Fourth, Federal and D.C. Circuits; the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the District of Maryland; and the Court of International Trade.

Mr. Thaler has served as an appointed member representative of the Montgomery County (Md.) BRAC Implementation Committee (2007- present) (addressing the impact of the Walter Reed Hospital closure and move to Bethesda Naval Medical Center); a member of the Board of Trustees for the National Child Research Center (Washington, D.C.) (1998-2001); an appointed member of the Vassar College Fund Advisory Committee (1996-99).

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