Paul R. Johnson

Paul R. Johnson was admitted to the State Bar of California on December 3, 1984, and holds an active license (#115817) ^[1]. He is certified by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization as a specialist in appellate law, belongs to the California Lawyers Association Litigation Section, and lists appellate practice as his State Bar self-reported practice area ^[1]. He attended UC Berkeley School of Law ^[1].

Johnson is a partner in the Los Angeles office of King & Spalding LLP, an international firm with more than 1,300 lawyers across 26 offices that represents companies in commercial disputes and regulatory matters worldwide ^[2]. His work centers on appeals in the federal courts and the California state courts on behalf of corporate clients, and spans trial-court and appellate proceedings in antitrust, employment, energy, environmental, intellectual property, land use, product liability, and constitutional matters ^[1][2]. He earned a B.A. cum laude from Yale University in 1981 and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984.