13 Facts About Dan Paul

Daniel Perkins Smith Paul was an American attorney best known for arguing the landmark case Miami Herald Publishing Co.

Dan Paul's clients included the Miami Dolphins of American football and newspapers such as The Miami Herald and The Wall Street Journal.

Dan Paul was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on July 22,1924, to Henry Paul, a pharmacist, and Cornelia Smith Paul, a county tax collector.

Dan Paul began to practice in Miami, Florida in 1949 with the firm of Loftin, Anderson, Scott, McCarthy and Preston.

In 1966, the Miami News called him "Dade's knight" and wrote of him that "the name Dan Paul comes up in so many civic controversies that it is hard to keep up with him".

One of Dan Paul's specialties was environmental law, and he represented the National Audubon Society in a late-1960s lawsuit to stop an airport from being constructed in the Florida Everglades, a protected region of subtropical wetlands.

Dan Paul acted as a parks activist, protesting the removal of sidewalks designed by Brazilian architect Roberto Burle Marx.

Dan Paul played a major role in amending Miami's city code to block the construction of buildings within fifty feet of the shore.

Dan Paul worked for a time in partnership with Parker Thomson in one of the most prominent legal practices in Miami, Dan Paul and Thomson.

Dan Paul represented the Miami Herald for more than three decades, as well as working for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and NBC.

Dan Paul is best known for acting as the chief lawyer for the Herald in Miami Herald Publishing Co.

On January 9,1980, Dan Paul was attacked by an 18-year-old guest, Bradley Schlegel, at his home in Star Island.

Dan Paul died at his home in Miami on January 24,2010, of Parkinson's disease.