BACKGROUND

KeyWitness Consulting™ was founded by Paul Leiman, who brings his skills and experience as a practicing attorney, forensic instructor and university professor. For more than fifteen years, Mr. Leiman has tapped his work as trial attorney and counsel as a key resource for the development of innovative and practical training. He further draws from his work as a professor at the graduate degree level at Johns Hopkins University, demonstrating the fusion of workable solutions and ethical outcomes. Taken together, the common threads from each of these sources provide an integrated tool – the Advocacy-Defined Model™ – to examine and assess the sustainability and consequences of today's decisions.

Paul Leiman litigated white collar banking enforcement matters, such as the Charles Keating-Lincoln Savings case, for more than fifteen years for the U.S. government. As a Senior Attorney at the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Mr. Leiman handled high profile cases for the Special Trial and Enforcement Divisions in both federal and administrative venues. Previously, he had served as both a trial lawyer and administrative counsel at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and had spent two years in a general practice law firm.

As a longtime advocate of legal education for both non-lawyers and attorneys, Mr. Leiman has frequently developed and taught seminars for bank examiners, financial regulatory staff, law enforcement and government lawyers. For his work in forensic training of non-legal regulatory staff, Mr. Leiman received the prestigious Outstanding Accomplishment Award from the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council for his development of Testifying – the Council's successful and ongoing training course for examiners and bank regulators. Having received his faculty certification as a National Institute of Trial Advocacy Instructor at Harvard University, Paul Leiman has served as faculty for the Institute and often trained government counsel.

Paul Leiman received his Juris Doctor with honors from The George Washington University Law School in 1975 after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972, with a B.A. in psychology. Mr. Leiman is an active member of the Bars of the District of Columbia and the State of Maryland, and is admitted to practice before the Third and Fifth Circuit United States Courts of Appeals.