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Paul A. Renne is senior counsel to the Cooley Godward Kronish Litigation department. Resident in the San Francisco office, he has been with the Firm since 1964.
Mr. Renne's practice is primarily related to litigating complex business disputes, with special emphasis on securities litigation, accountants' malpractice, trade secrets and intellectual property matters. He has tried in excess of 100 jury trials, including two lengthy jury trials, one of four months and the other of five months, in which he successfully defended clients against allegations of securities fraud.
His legal career began as a law clerk to Judge Edwin D. Steel Jr., U.S. District Court of Delaware, from 1959 to 1960. He was an associate at Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens in New York from 1960 to 1961. In 1961, he joined the Kennedy Administration as an attorney in the Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, and in 1962, he was appointed an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and remained in that position until joining the Firm.
Mr. Renne received a law degree from Harvard University in 1959. He attended the University of Minnesota from 1948 to 1951 and received an A.B. from that school in 1956 after serving five years as a jet pilot in the U.S. Air Force.
Mr. Renne is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, serving as State Chair for Northern California. He is a member of the American, California and San Francisco bar associations and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and presently is a member of the Executive Committee of the Litigation Section, California State Bar. He is listed in The Best Lawyers of America. He is the author of a number of articles, including one in Volume 29, Vanderbilt Law Review, "Eliminating Redlining by Judicial Action: Are Erasers Available," and a chapter on "Final Argument" in the Practising Law Institute publication, Civil Trial Practice. For a number of years, he was adjunct professor of law at Golden Gate University, where he taught a trial practice course and has lectured on trial practice to numerous legal groups, including California's Continuing Education of the Bar.
Mr. Renne is a member of the American Arbitration Association Committee Panel, completing both the Arbitration I and II courses given by AAA. He has served as a mediator in numerous cases for both the Association of San Francisco and the U.S. District Court.
Mr. Renne is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia (1959), New York (1961) and California (1964), as well as the Supreme Court of the United States.
Education- Harvard Law School
JD, 1959 - University of Minnesota
AB, 1956
Court Admissions
- United States Supreme Court
Admissions
- California
- District of Columbia
- New York
Memberships
- American Arbitration Association
- American Bar Association
- American College of Trial Lawyers
- Bar Association of San Francisco
- California Bar Association
Board & Executive Committee Associations
- State Chair for Northern California, American College of Trial Lawyers
- Member of the Executive Committee of the Litigation Section, California State Bar
- Member of the American Arbitration Association Committee Panel
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