About Paul C.
Paul C. Galanides earned his J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1995 after beginning law studies in 1992. He entered the profession within the mid-Nineteen Nineties and constructed knowledge on both sides of the courtroom. His legal background in Kentucky set the stage for a profession that has crossed state lines and appellate boundaries.
He started work as an assistant public defender in 1995 with the Lexington-Fayette County Legal Aid (Public Defender) Association. That early courtroom experience used to be followed by a move into authorities litigation. In 1998 he served in the Special Prosecution Division of the Office of the Lawyer General in Kentucky. By 2001 he had joined the Office of the Lawyer General in Virginia, operating within the Criminal Appeals Division and participating in the Capital Appeals Unit thru 2006. He later served as an assistant Commonwealth’s lawyer for Henrico County starting in 2005.
Galanides has alternated among public service and private practice. He opened the Law Office of Paul C. Galanides as principal in 2014. In 2016 he labored as an associate to Joe Morrissey at Morrissey and Associates. Two years later he joined Carlson & Collier as an affiliate and resumed his principal role at his own company in 2018. Those moves reflect a profession spent dealing with each prosecution and defense matters, and moving between trial work and appellate litigation.
Professional affiliations have tracked that mixed practice. He held club in the Capital Appeals Unit from 2001 to 2006 and in the Henrico County Bar Association from 2005 to 2016. He used to be active in the Sts. Helen and Constantine Greek Orthodox Cathedral network from 2003 to 2006. Since 2018 he has been a member of the Virginia State Bar and the Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
His admitted jurisdictions include Kentucky and Virginia, and he's admitted to practice earlier than the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the U.S. highest court. Those admissions align with his work in criminal appeals and in roles that required appellate briefing and oral argument. He has knowledge on each facets of criminal things, encompassing trial-level protection and prosecution as well as appellate filings.
He currently practices on the Law Office of Paul C. Galanides, concentrating on criminal protection and appellate litigation.
