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PAUL OVERTON
In the highly specialized field of public utility law Paul Overton, General Counsel of the Los Angeles Gas and Electric Corporation, is recognized as an authority, having made a thorough and comprehensive study of this field of legal practice for many years.
Mr. Overton is a native of Texas, and was born in 1879 at Willis. After receiving his preparatory educational training in public schools he studied law for one year at Columbia University, Washington, D. C., under the preceptorship of Justices Harlan and Brewer. His legal training was later continued at Cornell University, which conferred on him the LL.B. degree in 1900.
The same year Mr. Overton was admitted to the Texas bar and entered practice at San Antonio. Two years later he moved to California and became associated in practice with the firm of Dunning & Craig, of Los Angeles. In 1903 he became Assistant Attorney General of the Philippine Islands.
After serving in this capacity for about two years Mr. Overton resigned and returned to Los Angeles and entered the Legal Department of the Los Angeles Gas and Electric Corporation of which he has now been General Counsel for more than ten years. An able executive as well as a competent lawyer, his work has played an important part in bringing this company to its present place as one of the outstanding public utility corporations of the west.
Mr. Overton holds membership in the American Bar Association, State Bar of California and Los Angeles County Bar Association, as well as the University Club and other organizations. He is also well known in fraternal circles of the city, being a 32° Mason and Shriner, and Past Master of Westlake Lodge No. 392, F. & A. M. In 1916 he married Angele Bouilly and they have three daughters, Theodora, Alaire, and Mary Ann.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: "American Blue Book California Lawyers"
by H. James Boswell, Page 71, Produced by H. James Boswell,
1928.
© 2008 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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