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Paul Taliaferro Lund

Of Counsel

Practice Areas

  • Criminal Defense
  • Federal Criminal Defense
  • White Collar Criminal Defense
  • Criminal Appeals
  • Wrongful Conviction, AEDPA, First Step Act

Bio

Paul Lund is an experienced and passionate criminal defense attorney with an extensive practice primarily in the North Texas area. Paul has successfully handled a wide variety federal criminal matters from beginning to end including: initial federal investigations, grand jury matters, indictment, trial, direct appeals, and post-conviction matters. In his more than 10 years as a defense attorney, he has handled a wide variety of federal crimes from complex fraud allegations (wire fraud, healthcare fraud, bankruptcy fraud, immigration fraud, marriage fraud, contracting fraud) to violent offenses (bank robbery, armed robbery, human trafficking, firearm offenses) and drug offenses. In 2019, Paul became one of the first attorneys in Texas to have a client released early from federal prison under the First Step Act. 

Paul is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Tulane University Law School. While at Tulane he was the Senior Articles Editor of The Sports Lawyers Journal and a member of the Criminal Defense Clinic. Mr. Lund has been trying major criminal defense cases since he was still in law school.

Paul is licensed to practice law in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is a member of the Texas State Bar Association as well as the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. Mr. Lund is also a graduate of the TCDLA’s Trial College. 


Practice Areas

  • Criminal Defense
  • Federal Criminal Defense
  • White Collar Criminal Defense
  • Criminal Appeals
  • Wrongful Conviction, AEDPA, First Step Act

Bar Admissions

  • Texas, 2009

Professional Associations

  • Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Member, 2009 to Present

Education

  • Tulane Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana
    • J.D.
    • Honors: Criminal Defense Clinic, member
  • Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
    • B.A. - 2006
    • Major: History
  • TCDLA’s Trial College