Paul A Mones
Leading Advocate for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse
For over thirty years, Paul Mones has been a leading nationwide advocate for victims of child sexual abuse, representing hundreds of people who had been sexually abused as children by their Boy Scout leaders, priests, ministers, coaches, employers, teachers, guidance counselors as well as by their parents and guardians. He has been at the forefront of representing Boy Scout victims of sexual abuse. In 2010 he and his co-counsel obtained the largest verdict ever against the Boy Scouts of America – $19.9 million – against the Boy Scouts of America. The trial represented the first time that the Boy Scouts’ ‘Perversion Files’ – confidential files maintained by the BSA on pedophiles – were admitted into evidence. The perversion files were finally publicly released in 2012 to national and international news coverage.
Paul has also represented numerous victims of Catholic clergy abuse throughout the nation. In 2000, he and his co-counsel tried the first sexual abuse case to a jury against the Archdiocese of New York (the case settled during trial).In 2007, he and his co-counsel obtained an $11.45 million jury verdict against the Diocese of Rockville Centre in New York on behalf of two victims –the largest verdict rendered against a Diocese in New York.
Over the course of his career, Paul has obtained millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for clients all over the nation.
- Sexual Abuse Attorney
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Contingent Fees
Fees are all on a contingency basis
- California
- Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers
- Oregon
- Oregon State Bar
- English: Spoken, Written
- Attorney & Counselor at Law
- Paul Mones, PC
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- Owner of Firm
- State University of New York - Buffalo
- B.A. | Sociology
- University of North Carolina School of Law
- Law Degree
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- Livingston Hall Juvenile Justice Award
- American Bar Association
- Spirit of Crazy Horse Award
- Reclaiming Youth International
- Lawyer of the Year
- Lawyers USA
- National Crime Victims Bar Association
- Member
- Current
- National Center on Child Fatality Review
- Member
- Current
- Oregon State Bar
- - Current
- California State Bar  # 128329
- Member
- - Current
- Massachusetts State Bar
- - Current
- Stalking Justice: The Dramatic True Story of the Detective Who First Used DNA Testing to Catch a Serial Killer
- Pocket Books
- When a Child Kills: Abused Children Who Kill Their Parents
- Pocket Books
- The Relationship Between Parricide and Child Abuse: An Overview
- Unhappy Families: Clinical and Research Perspectives on Family Violence 31, 38 (E. Newberger & R. Bourne eds. 1985)