Paul R. Monsees is a partner and litigation lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. He has extensive experience analyzing, litigating and resolving complex commercial disputes including representing clients in matters concerning insurance and reinsurance relationships, employment discrimination and related issues, internal investigations, breaches of fiduciary duty, corporate and law firm successor liability, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of non-disclosure and non-solicitation agreements, data breach issues, breach of medical practice management contracts, tortious interference with contractual relations and other business torts and in defending private and governmental enforcement actions concerning consumer protection. Paul is a member of the firm’s Commercial Litigation, Insurance & Reinsurance Industry Team, Insurance & Reinsurance Litigation Practice, Labor & Employment Practice and Trade Secret/Noncompete Specialty Practice. He is chair of the firm’s Washington, D.C. Litigation Department.

Paul’s counseling and litigation experience includes representing insurers and reinsurers in litigation, arbitration and mediation proceedings and he has negotiated strategic business solutions and commutations on behalf of cedents and reinsurers. He has represented clients involving a wide range of issues and parties such as reinsurance pools, including Unicover, offshore captives, brokers, MGU and MGA relationships, quasi-governmental funds and Lloyds syndicates. A representative list of the business and issues presented in these matters includes accident & health, property & casualty, workers comp carve out, medical stop loss and WTC clean-up claims; claims for fraud, misrepresentation and rescission arising out of multiple reinsurance agreements, both treaty and facultative; requests for pre-hearing security; follow the fortunes; underwriting and rating of risks; disputes over audits and claims procedures; and the many and varied issues that arise in running-off books of business. His engagements have included extended arbitration proceedings between cedents and reinsurers, and between insurers and MGAs, Florida rate filing litigation, the pursuit of common account recoveries, coverage under the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Compensation Act, actuarial analysis of reserves for long-tail claims and disputes over the underwriting and pricing of working layer and excess workers’ compensation for self-insured groups and captive business.

Paul also represents employers in a broad array of employment issues. His employment practice includes conducting internal investigations of discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims, drafting and enforcing confidentiality and non-competition agreements, investigating data breach incidents, counseling employers concerning hiring, disciplinary action and termination decisions and a variety of other human relations/resources concerns. When resolution cannot be achieved, Paul has litigated employment disputes in federal and state courts and before the EEOC and comparable state employment agencies consistent with the company’s business goals and objectives.

Paul was instrumental in developing and leading the firm’s litigation training program and has served as a counseling partner to the firm for several years.