Paul M. Dutton, a lawyer with HHM and its predecessors for more than 50 years, passed away on May 7, 2023. The firm is leaving Paul’s bio in place here for a time to honor the memory of our long-time colleague and friend.

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Paul was a member (partner) at HHM and focused his practice on business law, mergers and acquisitions, business financing, real estate development, estate/succession planning, elder law and public sector law. He was a graduate of Youngstown State University (B.A., 1969) and the Case Western Reserve University School of Law (J.D., 1972).

Paul served as solicitor to the Village of Lordstown and as general counsel to the Mahoning Valley Economic Development Corporation and its affiliated enterprises. He also served as director of Akron Children’s Hospital and as chair of the Akron Children’s Hospital Foundation, trustee of the William Swanston Charitable Fund, secretary to the Tod Homestead Cemetery Association, and director of the International Institute Foundation.

From 1978 through 1981, Paul served as a member of the Energy Research Advisory Board of the U.S. Department of Energy. From 1988 through 1995, he traveled extensively throughout Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union for the U.S. Information Agency of the U.S. State Department and lectured on business development and entrepreneurship.

Paul served as an adjunct instructor teaching Business Ethics at Youngstown State University from 2014-2020.