Paul W. Sweeney, Jr.

Paul served as a White House Fellow, where he worked for the White House Chief of Staff/Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs. Paul has also served as a volunteer prosecutor for the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, Criminal Branch, where he handled misdemeanor jury trials. In 2024, Paul was named by Savoy magazine as one of the most influential African-American lawyers in the United States. He was also named by the Los Angeles Business Journal in 2024 as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Los Angeles, Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Cyber Lawyers, and to the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America^®. And, for many years, Paul has been named to the Southern California Super Lawyers list.

• American Law Institute
• Hollywood Wilshire YMCA, Board of Directors
• Public Counsel, Board of Directors
• Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Board of Directors

• National Bar Association, Panelist: The Supreme Court: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (2023)
• Association of Corporate Counsel, Southern California Chapter: Panelist, The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA): Key Impact Areas (2021)
• Live with the Supremes: Recap of the Most Important Decisions Impacting Corporations from the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2017-18 Term (2019)
• K&L Gates Webinar: Panelist, Discrimination Law: Workplace Inequalities Are Alive and Kicking (2018)
• Association of Corporate Counsel, Southern California Chapter: Panelist, Getting the Most Out of Your Outside Counsel, and Panelist, Inside/Outside Counsel Relationships -- Addressing Issues of Bias (2018)
• K&L Gates Webinar: Panelist, Consumer Litigation: The Year in Review and the Years to Come - What to Expect in Consumer Litigation Under the Trump Presidency (2017)
• National Bar Association: Panelist, Attorney - Client Privilege in the Parent - Subsidiary Context (2017)
• National Bar Association: Panelist, The Current Telephone Consumer Protection Act Landscape & What You Need to Know to Avoid Liability (2016)
• Association of Corporate Counsel, Southern California Chapter: Panelist, Effective Use of Social Media in Litigation: Tools, Traps, and Tips (2014)
• National Bar Association: Panelist, Class Action Strategies (2011)
• Association of Corporate Counsel, Southern California Chapter: Panelist, Multi-State Investigations: What They Are and What to Do When Your Company Is the Subject of One (2006)
• Minority Corporate Counsel Association: Panelist, Strategies for Aggressively Countering Multi-Plaintiff Lawsuits (2003)

• "USA Patriot Act," presented at Labor and Employment Law: Challenges for the Financial Service Industry seminar in K&LNG's Los Angeles and San Francisco office, June 18 & 19, 2002
• “Mountain Man,” California Law Business, April 1, 2002