• $93 million settlement in favor of mining company client through contract, fraud, and alter ego claims filed against electric utility and its subsidiaries.
• Motion to dismiss aiding and abetting fraud claims granted in consolidated class actions against national bank client arising from TelexFree pyramid scheme (District of Massachusetts).
• Multi-million-dollar jury verdict awarded in clients’ favor after Virginia Supreme Court reversed the dismissal of their destruction of business claims, in the case that inspired John Grisham’s The Appeal and Laurence Leamer’s The Price of Justice (Circuit Court of Buchanan County, Virginia; Virginia Supreme Court).
• Dismissal with prejudice of putative class action claims against car rental company and its insurer (Middle District of Florida)
• Motion to dismiss breach of contract, unjust enrichment, and consumer protection law claims granted in putative class action against car rental company (Southern District of Florida)
• Dismissal of Section 1983 and malicious prosecution claims against national bank and its employees (Western District of Pennsylvania).
• Dismissal of Breach of fiduciary duty claims filed by putative class of bondholders against indenture trustee (California Superior Court of Madera County).
• Spoliation sanctions granted against plaintiff, dismissing breach of loan agreement suit filed against national bank client, and awarding substantial attorney’s fees (Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas; affirmed by Pennsylvania Superior Court).
• West Virginia Supreme Court recognized right of widows of miners who died during the Upper Big Branch fire to bring tort claims against mine inspectors, which led to a favorable settlement of claims filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) against the Mine Health & Safety Administration (MSHA).
• Preliminary injunction against Occupy encampment on bank client’s land (Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas).
• Dismissal of eviction action against pro bono client and affirmance on appeal (Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas; affirmed by Pennsylvania Superior Court).
• Judgment in favor of pro bono client facing eviction and damages claims (Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas).
• Total defense award for pro bono client in arbitration of personal injury claims (Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas).

• Lectures on trial court and appellate advocacy at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
• Patrick regularly judges mock trial and moot court competitions for law students.

United States v. Wong, S.Ct. No. 13-1074 (2014), and United States v. June, S.Ct. No. 13-1075 (2014), amicus brief for Clinic for Legal Assistance to Servicemembers and Veterans. U.S. Supreme Court agreed, holding that equitable tolling applies to tort claims filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA).

• Pre-service Removal in Diversity Actions Involving Forum Defendants, Bloomberg BNA, The United States Law Week Case Alert & Legal News, Vol. 82, No. 11 (Sept. 24, 2013) (with Colin Wrabley)
• Dilatory Tactics in Credit Card Cases: Why Plaintiff-Creditors File Objectionable Complaints & What Can Be Done To Encourage Procedural Compliance, Loy. Consumer L. Rev., Vol. 22, Iss. 2 (2009)
• The Death of Selective Waiver: How New Federal Rule of Evidence 502 Ends the Nationalization Debate, J.L. & Com., Vol. 27, No. 2 (2009)