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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 24, 2021

Paul Revere Leitner, a lawyer in the Chattanooga office of Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan for more than 60 years, died Saturday. A graduate of the McKenzie College of Law in Chattanooga in 1954, Leitner first joined the firm while a law student. Following graduation, he became an associate and was named a partner in 1957. Leitner was active in the local and statewide legal community, serving as president of the Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association, a member of the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education, and state chair of the Defense Research Institute. He was a fellow of the Chattanooga Bar Foundation, Tennessee Bar Foundation and American College of Trial Lawyers, and a member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, International Association of Defense Counsel, Trial Attorneys of America, American Board of Trial Advocates and U.S. 6th Circuit Judicial Conference. Services will be held Wednesday at noon EDT at First-Centenary United Methodist Church. Memorial donations may be made to the charity of the donor’s choice.