Paul Schor

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Areas of Practice

Paul Schor currently focuses his practice on many facets of civil practice, including products liability, intellectual property, construction, motor vehicle, premises, commercial litigation, and areas of municipal law, including permitting, zoning, land use, and environmental matters.

Personal/Professional Experience

Mr. Schor was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Prior to joining Gallagher and Cavanaugh, Mr. Schor was a City Solicitor for the City of Lowell, working in areas of municipal representation for Massachusetts’ fourth largest city, including Lowell’s three simultaneously ongoing federally-funded urban renewal projects.

Before entering the law, Mr. Schor worked as an educator and business consultant. As part of his Teach For America posting in the Washington, D.C. public school system, he founded the City Mountain Teams program, an outdoor experiential education program for inner-city teens. In 1995, Mr. Schor’s Washington, D.C. students earned the greatest citywide gain in verbal skills on the national CTBS test. From 1995-1997, the program received additional funding enabling its expansion into five of the City’s seven middle schools. After returning to his New England roots, Mr. Schor worked as a consultant based in Boston, handling marketing and management transitions for several companies including Liberty Financial Services, Janus Funds, Monster.com, Morningstar, and Scholastic, Inc.

As part of his legal training, Mr. Schor held a judicial internship with the Honorable Judge Tanzer, of the Connecticut Superior Court, and an administrative clerkship with the Connecticut Attorney General’s Special Litigation Unit and Environmental Litigation Unit, focusing on Tenth Amendment State rights in regard to energy transport and seaport clean-up.  Mr. Schor also worked as a law clerk for ACLU National Staff Attorney Stephen Pevar on a section 1983 action against the State of Wyoming. 

Honors and Awards, Publications/Presentations

Mr. Schor was the 2004 winner of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities’ Excellence in Municipal Law Award, based upon his study and report on future development opportunities of a World War II era working-class subdivision of East Hartford, Connecticut. 

Sustainable Funding for Cultural Programs & Public Art, Report and Presentation to the City of Lowell City Counsel subcommittee on Cultural Assets, 2005.

Reported Cases

Skinner v. Uphoff, 02-CV-033-B, 15, 2004 WL 1555157 *6 (D.Wyo.).

Bar and Court Admissions

Mr. Schor was admitted to practice in Massachusetts in 2005.

Education

J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, CT, 2004
Ed.M., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1998
B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1991 (cum laude)

Activities

Mr. Schor serves on several local boards including the executive board of Revolving Museum, Inc.  He is an advisor to the United Teen Equality Center, Inc. (UTEC).  Mr. Schor is also an active volunteer for the Lowell National Historic Park, and the Cultural Organization Of Lowell, Inc. (COOL).