Adventures in Court

Paul W. Orth grew up in Harrisburg, PA and Northampton, MA. As a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, he went to Dartmouth College where he majored in economics, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated with magna cum laude. He went on to Harvard Law School and upon graduation was drafted into the United States Army, where he became a member of the counterintelligence corps and was assigned to Munich, Germany. In January 1956, he met his future wife at a Faschingsball in Munich's modern art museum, and they married a few months later. He received an honorable discharge and soon went to Hartford, CT to find employment in a law firm. He soon progressed to partner and argued over four dozen cases before appellate courts before becoming president of the Hartford County Bar Association and retiring in 2000.