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Paul N. Harris is executive vice president secretary and general counsel of KeyCorp. His responsibilities include managing Key's Law Group in which capacity he oversees the legal affairs of the corporation its affiliates and major lines of business and support groups and Government Relations. In addition to serving as secretary of the corporation Paul serves as a director of KeyBank N.A. and a member of KeyCorp's Management Committee and Executive Council.
Paul joined KeyCorp in February 2003 and was elected corporate secretary in May 2003. He previously served as partner-in-charge of the Cleveland office of Thompson Hine LLP where he oversaw the office?s administrative operations managed significant client relationships and oversaw the firm's community and charitable support program. Paul joined Thompson Hine in 1983 as an associate in the firm's corporate and securities practice area. He left the firm in 1988 to serve as counsel for Revco D.S. Inc. (now CVS) where he was elected as an executive officer in 1993 and was responsible for corporate transactional securities and finance matters including all aspects of the company's successful emergence in June 1992 from bankruptcy and in each of the company's three merger transactions with public companies from 1994 to 1997. Paul rejoined Thompson Hine in 1997.
Paul received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago in 1980 and his law degree from Stanford Law School in 1983. He is a member of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals Inc. and the Cleveland Bar Association.
Active in the Cleveland community Paul is a trustee and a past president of the board of trustees of the Friends of Cleveland School of the Arts and is a trustee of Hawken School The Cuyahoga Community College Foundation and The City Club of Cleveland. Paul also serves as a member of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Visiting Committee. | 