Paulette Chapman

2001 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Suite 450
Washington, D.C. 20006
(202) 659-5500

Paulette Chapman, President of Women’s Bar Association

Ms. Chapman limits her practice to people who are injured because of unsafe construction sites and other workplaces, defective consumer products, and substandard medical care. She is involved in several high profile cases representing catastrophically injured clients:

• Griffith v. BCB Construction, $6 million
  Construction worker lost legs in multi-ton steel collapse because numerous OSHA violations and improper engineering design.
• Hayman Moore, $1.5 million
  Construction worker injured when bridge beam fell.
• Fowler v. PEPCO, $1 million
  Transit electrician caught in electrical arc explosion of utility company’s unsecured high voltage compartment.
• Maddox and Gomez cases, $6 million & $15 million
  Children scalded by unsafe water produced by water heaters with inadequate warning and temperature limiting devices.
• Gomez v. Atlantic Realty, $1.2 million
  Lead Paint Poisoning caused brain injury when child was exposed to illegal lead paint levels in apartment complex.
• Worker v. Health Care Facility, $1 million
  Worker fired from a health care facility because she testified that the facility committed medical malpractice.

Ms. Chapman graduated from George Washington University National Law School in1988 (with Honors).

Ms. Chapman has been admitted into:

• United States District Court for the District of Columbia
• United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
• United States District Court for the District of Maryland

She is:

• A Court Appointed Mediator and Arbitrator for Superior Court of the District of Columbia
• President of the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia (2003-2004).
• Co-Chair WBA Litigation Forum (2000, 2001)
• President-Elect (2002-2003)
• In the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C.
• Member: Board of Governor’s Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. (1999-2003)
• Member of District of Columbia Bar
• Co-Chair Tort Law Section Steering Committee (2001-2002)
• Co-Lecturer: District of Columbia Bar Continuing Legal Education Program: “Trial Skills Series: Jury Selection and Instruction” (1999-2001, 2003)
• Instructor: Continuing Legal Education Program on Workers’ Compensation
• Faculty: “The Far Side of Damages” CLE Program (2002, 2003)
• Workshop Facilitator: District of Columbia Bar and Superior Court of the District of Columbia Family Law Facilitator Pilot Project (2003)
• Bar Association of the District of Columbia
• Board of Directors (2002-2003)
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America
• Instructor: Trial Advocacy College: Essentials of Civil Litigation, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia for ATLA National College of Advocacy (2000)
• Instructor: Trial Advocacy College: Depositions College, Renaissance Atlanta hotel Downtown, Atlanta, Georgia for ATLA National College of Advocacy (2001)
• Co-Presenter: ATLA Convention Washington D.C. Courtroom Technology Presentation (1998)
• ATLA Women’s Caucus Lobby Days Participant: Patient’s Rights/Managed Care Legislation (1999)
• Adjunct Professor: Catholic University School of Law: Federal Civil Procedure (1995, 1996)
• Faculty Member: Georgetown University Law Center’s National Institute of Trial Advocacy Skills Program and Deposition Program (2001)
• Guest Speaker: National Student Leadership Conference Institute on Law & Advocacy (1998, 2000)
• District of Columbia Safe Kids Coalition (1997)
• The Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation (2000)
• Council for Court Excellence (1999)
• Awarded Highest Accolade in Martindale-Hubbell
• Numerous Presentations to Unions and Other Employee Groups Regarding Workers’ Compensation Benefits and the Law
• Granted United States Patent on “Air Conditioning Cord Warning Label,” April 1998

"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution." - Thomas Jefferson (1788)