About Paul Blake
Paul Blake Ozbun combines recent legal training with several practical internships that shaped his early practice. He earned his Juris Doctor from Saint Louis University School of Law in 2018 after completing a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Management at the University of Missouri in 2015. Those classroom years were paired with clinical placements that exposed him to a range of transactional and litigation work.
While at law school, Ozbun worked as a Rule 13 student lawyer in both the Entrepreneurship & Community Development Clinic and the Civil Advocacy Clinic. He handled client interviews, drafted pleadings and counseled small-business and individual clients under supervising attorneys. The clinical work gave him experience on both transactional matters for startups and the nuts-and-bolts of civil advocacy in court and administrative settings.
Outside the clinics, he pursued internships that broadened his perspective on finance and public law. In 2014 he interned at Merrill Lynch, where he observed securities and client relations work. He later spent a summer as a clerk at Bradshaw, Steele, Cochrane, Berens & Billmeyer, L.C., gaining exposure to firm practice. In 2018 he completed a bankruptcy internship with the Missouri Department of Revenue, working on matters related to insolvency and creditor claims. Those roles fed directly into his transition to private practice the same year.
After law school Ozbun joined Osburn, Hine & Yates, LLC as a lawyer in 2018. He is admitted to practice in Missouri and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. He also maintains membership in The Missouri Bar. At the firm he has worked on state and federal filings and appeared in proceedings tied to creditor-debtor disputes and civil litigation.
The through-line of Ozbun’s early career is practical courtroom and administrative experience paired with business and finance exposure. He draws on clinic work, a state revenue bankruptcy internship and firm clerkships when preparing cases. He now practices at Osburn, Hine & Yates, LLC and represents clients in bankruptcy and civil advocacy matters in Missouri and in the Eastern District federal court.
