Attorney Profile

Paul Koster

Paul Koster
Partner

Email: prkoster@dkllaw.com

Paul Koster serves as Managing Partner of Daley, Koster & LaVallee, LLC. He focuses his practice on the areas of governmental law, community association law, professional liability, and employment law.

Mr. Koster has spoken nationally and been nationally published on litigation issues. He has been named to Atlanta Magazine's list of Georgia Super Lawyer Rising Stars on multiple occasions. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Charter Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, an invitation-only trial lawyer honorary society consisting of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. He formerly served as the Chair of the Public Employment Law Subcommittee of the American Bar Association's Section of State and Local Government Law and on the Leadership Roster of the Defense Research Institute Government Liability Committee.

Mr. Koster is a former staff attorney for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and former member of the faculty at Emory University School of Law. Following law school, Mr. Koster served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Stephanie Duncan-Peters of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

MEMBERSHIPS
State Bar of Georgia
Charter Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America Trial Lawyer Honorary
Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Barrister, Order of Certus
Diversity Law Institute
The Trial Law Institute
Defense Research Institute (Governmental Liability Committee; 2008 Annual Meeting Chair, 2009-2010 Marketing Chair)
American Bar Association (Section of State & Local Government Law; 2009 Public Employment Subcommittee Chair)

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EDUCATION

  • University of Massachusetts at Amherst B.S., 1991
  • Catholic University of America J.D., magna cum laude, 1996

ADMITTED

  • Georgia
  • United States Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th, 11th, and D.C. Circuits
  • U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Georgia
  • Supreme Court of Georgia
  • Georgia Court of Appeals

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

  • New and Pending Labor and Employment Legislation Affecting State and Local Governmental Employers, ABA Section of State & Local Government Law Teleconference (Mar. 31, 2009)
  • Ten Commandments Displays in Georgia Courthouses, Georgia County Government (July 2008 Edition)
  • First Amendment and Restrictions on Public Employees' Activities During Non-Working Hours, ABA Section of State & Local Government Law Spring Council Meeting (Charleston, SC, March 28, 2008)
  • Workplace Searches by Public Employers and the Fourth Amendment, The Urban Lawyer (Winter 2007)
  • Advancing Your Case Through Offers Of Judgment, Litigation Counsel of America Fall Conference, (Phoenix, Arizona, Nov. 1, 2007)
  • Why E-Discovery Can Give You The Edge, National Business Institute (Oct. 29, 2007)
  • Restrictions On Public Employees' Activities During Non-Working Hours, Defense Research Institute Annual Meeting (Washington, D.C., Oct. 12, 2007)
  • Legal Writing and Analysis Workshop, National Business Institute (Mar. 21, 2007)
  • 4th Amendment Search Issues and the Public Employer, ABA Section of State and Local Government Law Fall Council Meeting,(Madison, WI, Oct. 13, 2006)
  • Election Battles and their Impact on the Public Employer, The Urban Lawyer (Fall 2006)
  • The `Official' Headache: Legal and Practical `Headaches' Involving Elected/Appointed Officials, ABA Section of State and Local Government Law Spring Meeting (San Diego, CA, Mar. 31, 2006)
  • Election Battle Fallouts: Handling Elections That Pit A Public Employee Against The Boss, Georgia County Government (Aug. 2005)
  • Handling Election Battle Fallout: Election Battles Pitting a Public Employee Against the Boss, DRI For the Defense (Aug. 2005)
  • Electronic Discovery in the Public Sector World, ICLE Seminar on 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Litigation (Dec. 3, 2004)
  • City and County Employees Running for Public Office, ICLE Institute for City & County Attorneys (Sept. 18, 2004)
  • Superior Legal Document Drafting Techniques, National Business Institute (July 13, 2004)
  • Enhanced Legal Research and Technology Strategies, National Business Institute (May 11, 2004)
  • Advanced Legal Drafting for Georgia Paralegals, National Business Institute (July 22, 2003)
  • Dollars or Sense: Medicare's Reimbursement of Graduate Medical Education, 12 J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol'y 269 (1996).