Prior to advising online merchants, Paul spent over 12 years defending Fortune 100 companies in complex state tax litigation matters, spending most of his career as in-house tax counsel for Microsoft, Walmart and General Electric. Paul holds an LL.M. (Master of Laws) in Taxation from New York University (“NYU”), a J.D. and M.B.A. from Villanova University, and a Bachelor’s in accounting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Paul is an adjunct professor at Pace Law School in New York where he teaches a state and local tax constitutional law course.