About Paul Cornoni

Paul J. Cornoni is a partner at Regan Zambri Long and one of Washington, DC's most respected personal injury trial lawyers. For more than two decades, Paul has represented individuals and families in catastrophic injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death cases across the DC Metro area and beyond. His results include a $15.2 million verdict against a property owner who violated safety codes (recognized as one of the Top 50 Premises Liability Verdicts in the United States for 2018), a $6.4 million jury verdict for an ex-CIA employee injured when a car drove into a Sam's Club, and a $4.2 million verdict for a nightclub patron assaulted while leaving the premises. Best Lawyers named Paul the 2026 Lawyer of the Year for Personal Injury Litigation in Washington, DC. He has been named a DC Super Lawyer every year since 2014 and to the Top 100 Washington, DC Super Lawyers list for the past two consecutive years.

In 2025, the District of Columbia Bar Association named him Pro Bono Attorney of the Year. He served as President of the DC Trial Lawyers Association and was recognized as Trial Lawyer of the Year by that organization in 2019. Paul teaches trial advocacy as an adjunct professor at The George Washington University Law School. He is licensed in Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia, and Massachusetts.

Proven verdicts and settlements

In 2012 a McKesson Corporation employee rear-ended Roger Tovar's stopped car, leaving the information technology security professional with a traumatic brain injury that ended his career. A D.C. Superior Court jury awarded $500,000 for bodily injury and $3,297,573 in lost wages in June 2018. McKesson appealed and then settled for the full jury award.

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

George Washington University Law School
J.D., 2003
Boston College
Undergraduate, 2000

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Washington
State Bar of Maryland
State Bar of Virginia
State Bar of Massachusetts

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Washington firms

Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP
Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP
$5.5 billion · J&J Agrees to Pay at Least $5.5 Billion to Resolve 76,000 Talc-Cancer Claims
Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner LLP
Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner LLP
$20 Million Judgment Against U.S. for Driver Paralyzed When Smithsonian Bus Ran Red Light
Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel, P.C.
Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel, P.C.
$17.11 million · $17.1 Million Verdict After Missed Ectopic Pregnancy Kills Young DC Mother
Koonz McKenney Johnson & DePaolis LLP
Koonz McKenney Johnson & DePaolis LLP
$13.5 Million Default Judgment Against Iran for Passenger Tortured in 1984 Kuwait Airways Hijacking
Patrick Malone & Associates, P.C.
Patrick Malone & Associates, P.C.
$8.35 million · Record $8.35 Million D.C. Verdict After Knee Surgery Cost an 82-Year-Old His Leg

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.