PAUL RUDOF is the Director of Training and Litigation at Public Defender Services of Lane County. Before moving to Oregon in September of 2025, Paul practiced for twenty-five years as a criminal defense attorney in Massachusetts. For eighteen years, he worked as a public defender at the Committee for Public Counsel Services — first as a trial attorney, then as a staff attorney in the Public Defender Training Division, and then as the state-wide Public Defender Co-Counsel. Paul then entered private practice, continuing to specialize in criminal defense in both state and federal court. Paul has tried cases in almost every county in Massachusetts, from misdemeanors to murders. He has argued many appeals before the Massachusetts Appeals Court and Supreme Judicial Court, winning appellate victories in several landmark cases. Most recently, with his law partner Ryan Schiff, Paul litigated and won Commonwealth v. Mattis, the first decision in the country to conclude that a life without parole sentence is unconstitutional for anyone under age twenty-one. For this accomplishment, Paul received the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers President’s Award and was named a 2024 Lawyer of the Year by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. Paul has also trained thousands of criminal defense lawyers throughout the country in trial skills, substantive law, and forensics, both as a faculty member at the National Criminal Defense College since 2006 and at conferences in almost half of the states. Prior to practicing law, Paul clerked for the Hon. Michael Murphy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, worked as a tenant organizer in Tucson, Arizona, and taught middle school in Washington D.C. He is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Utah College of Law.