Paul Shorstein

Paul Shorstein handles all varieties of plaintiff's injury litigation from truck and auto accidents to products liability cases and complex insurance coverage disputes. Mr. Shorstein was born on July 21, 1971 in Jacksonville, Florida. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from the University of Florida in 1993, where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic fraternity. In 1997, Mr. Shorstein graduated Magna Cum Laude and in the top 3% of his class from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. At U.C. Hastings, he was a member of The Order of the Coif. After law school, Mr. Shorstein accepted a job as an associate at Kilpatrick Stockton LLP in Atlanta, Georgia. In that position, he worked on significant commercial loan transactions, the value of which was often well into the eight figure range. In 1999, Mr. Shorstein began working as an assistant district attorney with the DeKalb County District Attorney's Office in Decatur, Georgia. Mr. Shorstein tried over twenty-five felony trials with charges ranging from homicide to drug trafficking to complex white collar thefts. For two years, Paul Shorstein was the head of the entire White Collar Crime Unit in the second biggest county in Georgia. He was the first attorney in the county to successfully prosecute a RICO case and was given a special commendation by the Atlanta branch of the FBI for his work on two large scale white collar crime cases that involved victims all over the United States and a money trail that spanned two continents. In 2005, Mr. Shorstein moved back to Jacksonville, Florida and accepted a job with a plaintiff's personal injury firm handling all varieties of plaintiff's injury litigation from truck and auto accidents to medical and other professional malpractice and complex insurance coverage disputes. Mr. Shorstein has been involved in several lawsuits that resulted in recoveries of seven figures for the clients.