About Paulo

Looking back at my 35 years of litigation practice, I soon became convinced that litigation outcomes most often came at a cost that far outweighed the resolution. While serving as counsel to litigants in numerous mediations and arbitrations, I had a front row seat to observe how mediation typically resulted in a swift and party-controlled equitable resolution to complex conflicts that either bypassed, or facilitated, the end of litigation.

Born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, I am a native Spanish speaker. (I also speak passable Lithuanian, but I have yet to use that in my ADR practice.)

After graduating from the University of Texas School of Law, I was licensed as an attorney in Texas in November 1989 and began my practice with a Dallas commercial litigation law firm. In my second year of practice, I began representing a surety whose niche was bonding construction companies that were otherwise not bondable because of their size and/or lack of years of experience in the construction industry. The bonds were underwritten by the Small Business Administration. Within a year, I had approximately 80 files of troubled projects scattered across the State. That was my baptism into the field of construction law.