Candidate for
Board Member; Mount Diablo Unified School District

The founder of The Strange Law Firm, Paul Strange was born in Dallas, Texas, and was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and his J.D. from California Western School of Law in San Diego.

Mr. Strange has been an active volunteer in the Mt. Diablo Unified School District. He has volunteered at Olympic High School and prior to being appointed to the School Board, he was the President of the Mt. Diablo Alternative Education Foundation. Mr. Strange was appointed to the Mt. Diablo Unified School District Board of Education on March 28, 2006 and has worked to support students, teachers, parents and employees of the district.

Mr. Strange has litigated multi-million dollar matters involving: condemnation; real estate disputes; probate matters, securities class actions; environmental litigation; wrongful termination; representation of corporate entities with regard to administrative and legal matters before the California Public Utilities Commission; breach of fiduciary duties in a high-tech start-up company; and franchise litigation. He also provides litigation services and advice and counsel to public entity clients.

Mr. Strange is a member of the California School Boards Association, the International Right of Way Association, the Conference of California Public Utility Counsel, the Supplier's Committee of the California Communications Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and the San Francisco Bar Association. Mr. Strange is a member of both the California and New Mexico Bar Associations. After law school, he joined the preeminent San Diego trial lawyers at Thorsnes, Bartolotta & McGuire. In 2002, Mr. Strange departed Thorsnes, Bartolotta & McGuire to form StrangeLaw.

Mr. Strange's practice currently focuses on business litigation and representation of major utilities in front of the California Public Utilities Commission.

Paul and his wife Robin live in Concord with their two young children.