Paul Michalski serves on the National leadership team of the New Canaan Society and has led its founding chapter in Connecticut since 2007.

Paul was born in a small town in Upstate New York and graduated

from Harvard College, magna cum laude, in 1983 and Harvard Law School, magna

cum laude, in 1986.  He was an attorney in the corporate department of

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, a New York City-based law firm, for over 22

years, joining Cravath in 1986 and becoming a partner in 1994.  From 1996

through 2000, Paul was resident in the firm's London office.   He took a

leave of absence in October 2008 to help one of the firm’s pro bono clients,

the New Canaan Society, Inc., in its transition from a regional to a

national organization and decided to leave Cravath in July 2009 to pursue

other interests.  

Paul’s legal experience was broad-based, encompassing

corporate finance transactions (including bank financings and public and

private debt and equity issuances), mergers and acquisitions, restructurings

and joint ventures. He was also involved in advising on corporate governance

and securities law reform.  Among other honors, Paul was recognized in

Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in 2006 and 2007;

Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers in 2008 and 2009; and New York

Super Lawyers in 2007 and 2008.  He also served on the Advisory Board for

the Capital Markets Law Journal and as a Vice-Chair of the ABA Committee on

International Securities and Capital Markets.

 

In addition to providing strategic and transactional business advice through

a consulting practice called Third River Consulting, he serves as a Director and as President of the Benjamin Franklin House Foundation, as an Accelerator Mentor with Praxis Labs, on the Board of

Directors of the New York Law Institute, on the Board of Directors of the

Camelot Faith and Leadership Institute and as Chair of the Young Life Committee in Darien, CT.
 

He lives in Darien, CT with his wife. Lisa. and two children, James and

Annie.  Paul tries daily to "show up", be "faithfully present", love Lisa and the kids, and listen--and some days he almost succeeds.