Specifically, Paul's legal practice includes:

• Immigrant and Non-immigrant Visas including business, student, investor, family-based petitions, and fiancée visas

• Immigration & Deportation

• Deportation Defense including cancellation of removal, asylum, temporary protected status.

• Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets

After High School, Paul served four years of active duty in the US Navy where he earned the National Defense Service Medal for service in support of Desert Shield and Desert Storm operations. He also earned the Navy Good Conduct Medal and a marksmanship award as a sharpshooter. While in the service Paul also earned an Associate of Arts, Summa Cum Laude from National University in San Diego, California.

Paul then attended the University of Florida where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering. He was named to the Dean's List of the College of Engineering twice. For academic excellence he was inducted into the Golden Key National Honor Society and Tau Beta Pi, the computer science honor society. Paul also served as President of the University of Florida chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Paul attended Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport where he earned his Juris Doctorate. He completed part of his studies of law as an exchange student at the University of Granada in Spain. While there he studied intellectual property, criminal law, and business law in the European Union.

Paul worked for over ten years for Verizon Communications as a Systems Analyst and Systems Engineer. While at Verizon he was invited to speak twice at the Computer Associate's World conference in New Orleans regarding innovative solutions designed to solve the Y2K problem in large-scale enterprise systems. While at Verizon, he was also sent to Bell Sygma in Canada and CANTV in Venezuela. Paul also served as President of HSO-FL, the Hispanic Support Organization, Florida Chapter, while at Verizon.

While at Verizon, Paul also attended the University of Tampa where he earned an MBA. He was also inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, the International Business Honor Society, for academic excellence.

Paul is also a founding member of HYPE (Hispanic Young Professionals & Entrepreneurs) and currently serves as its national Treasurer. Paul also served as Treasurer and Executive Vice-President of NSHMBA (National Society of Hispanic MBAs) Tampa Bay Chapter. He also served as Treasurer for the campaign of Gil Sanchez for Florida State Representative District 58 in 2010.

Paul currently serves on the following Boards:

1. HYPE Nationals Treasurer
2. Vice President, TICH (tichonline.org)

Paul is the middle of three brothers. Both of his parents are from Ecuador but Paul was in born in New Jersey and grew up in Caracas, Venezuela. He is fluent in Spanish as it is his first language and also speaks French. While at the University of Florida he played for the university city league soccer team. He also competes as a tri-athlete and has participated with Team In Training in order to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.