Paul Emil KammerlochB.A., LL.B.Area Of Practice
Paul Kammerloch specializes in acquisitions. He likes serving the legal needs of people who want to buy things - generally big things. If it's acquisition law Paul loves it. For him it holds a special excitement, every case. For him, there is an emotional rush, which comes with every deal that clicks - and most do. Sometimes client enthusiasms infect him. Paul Kammerloch has always had a strong interest in the law of buying and selling property. One of his happiest periods at the University of Manitoba Law School, 1983-85, was serving as instructor in solicitor transactions. It wasn't a giant step from there to developing expertise in Landlord and Tenant issues and work with the Winnipeg Housing Authority. These days most of his files deal with corporate and commercial law. Paul did his arts and law studies at the University of Manitoba (1973-76) and was called to the Bar of Manitoba in June 1977. He was awarded St. Paul's College academic award and award for excellence in history major. Paul joined Gordon Pullan when the firm was Golsof Pullan Guld and Satran. He became a partner, and part of the letterhead in 1982. He was born on Feb. 18, 1952 of parents who nurtured his cultural roots. His father was swept up in the war on the Eastern front. He had been raised in a German community in Southern Russia, but war with Germany saw Paul Sr and the family entrained for a gulag in Siberia. A German bomb or two thwarted that trip, and Paul's father escaped, only to be captured by the advancing Germans. His German-Russian language capability got him translation duty until liberating American troops swept in and he became a teacher in a US POW camp. Not being German, Paul's father was able to emigrate to Canada in 1949 and headed for friends in Winnipeg. "He became one of the volksdeutsche - German speaking but not German finding common ground with the many Menonites and Lutherans already in place here. He married Hilda Birkle. From these family roots, it was natural for Paul to develop a familiar relationship with the German speaking community, serving as president and holding other offices with the German-Canadian Congress, the Building Committee of the German-Canadian Cultural Centre, secretary to the Hespeler Cultural Centre (a project which died when promised federal funds didn't materialize in the late 1980s and early 90s). He has served as Honorary Counsel to the German Society, Villa Heidelberg Inc., and South Winnipeg Kinderschule Inc. and Manitoba Parent for German Education. Schools have been big in Paul's life. If you went to school, late fifties to early seventies, you probably went to one Paul attended at some time. Before university he attended H.C. Avery School (1958-63); Sergeant Park (1963); Queen Elizabeth (1963-67) and Nelson McIntyre (1967-70). Paul has two children: Paul Andrew (1983) and Jennifer Amy (1985). |
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