Wegmann

Paul is a member of Butler Snow’s Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare Litigation group.

Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare

• Paul has represented clients in product liability, general commercial liability and corporate defense practice with a focus on medical device, pharmaceutical, and insurance litigation. He has guided clients on eDiscovery issues in large scale mass tort litigation, including class action and consolidated matters, involving discovery and data challenges relating to Electronically Stored Information (ESI) and document preservation. Paul has experience in the identification, collection, processing, review, oversight of discovery review and responses, analysis and production of ESI, as well as experience in creating review databases in Relativity and other review platforms. He has consulted on difficult preservation issues such as mobile device data, legacy archives, and enterprise databases, involving both domestic U.S. and outside-U.S. data practices and laws, including U.S., U.K., Canada, Europe and Australia. Paul has advised and coordinated eDiscovery for top-five pharmaceutical and orthopedic corporate clients and disclosure exercises for global insurance clients. Paul has coordinated discovery and disclosures in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Europe and Australia. Paul has coordinated with eDiscovery vendors and has overseen eDiscovery budgeting. He has liaised with client legal departments in managing data preservation in multiple U.S. and international locations. His experience encompasses the full range of all phases of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) as well as practical knowledge in traditional eDiscovery issues such as responsiveness, confidentiality and privilege. He has developed review protocols and orientation materials for multiple review projects, and he has managed fact development and review strategy. Paul has coordinated with department and division liaisons to develop fact chronologies and discovery responses. He has handled intensive data collection and review projects, including the management of large attorney review teams from ten to over sixty attorneys, and involving millions of documents, for over twenty years. In keeping with the fact that the handling of electronically stored evidence has become an everyday aspect of litigation and compliance, Paul is a member of The Sedona Conference, which is dedicated to exploring eDiscovery and intellectual property developments.

• Louisiana, 1998
• U.S. District Courts
  • Louisiana: Eastern, Western

• Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, J.D., 1996
  • LSU Law Center, Comparative Law Program – Aix-Marseille Université, Aix, France, 1994
  • International Legal Studies Certificate
  • Loyola University Institute of Politics
• The University of Texas, B.B.A., Finance, 1989

• The Sedona Conference
• Louisiana Bar Association
• New Orleans Bar Association
  • eDiscovery Committee

• 2025 Sedona Conference on Global Intellectual Property Litigation, The Hague, Netherlands, Participant.
• 2022 Sedona Conference International Programme on Cross-Border Data Transfers & Data Protection Laws, Participant.

• New Orleans Living Magazine, Sports Columnist, 2006-2021
• World Affairs Council of New Orleans
• Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans
• The Humane Society of Louisiana