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Paul N. Luvera (born 1935) is an American trial lawyer based in Seattle. [1]
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Paul N. Luvera (born 1935) is an American trial lawyer based in Seattle. [1]
In 2010, the American Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA) inducted him and four others as one of the members of the American Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame. [2] [3] [4] He has also been listed in Best Lawyers in America [5] since its inception in 1978. Lawdragon called him "the dean of the plaintiffs' bar for all the Northwest." [6]
Luvera is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, and has served as its president. [7] [8] He is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, [9] and is a current member and past president of the Washington State Association for Justice. [10]
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