Patrick is Chair of both the firm's Insurance Services Practice and Class Actions/Mass Torts Practice. He is also active in the firm's Toxic Torts & Asbestos Practice. Patrick has handled a broad range of litigation, including toxic tort matters, insurance coverage disputes, class action litigation, and products liability lawsuits.

As a member of the firm's Toxic Torts & Asbestos Practice, Patrick plays a significant role defending clients in asbestos-related products liability and premises liability actions. In asbestos-related products liability and premises liability actions, he has formulated litigation and discovery strategies, supervised day-to-day litigation activities, and deposed numerous plaintiffs, fact witnesses, and experts. He has also successfully argued a variety of briefs, ranging from issues such as the Illinois Frye doctrine, choice-of-law issues, summary judgment matters, and the doctrine of forum non conveniens. Patrick has also been an active member of trial teams when matters move from the pretrial stages to the trial stages.

In addition to playing an important role in the firm's Toxic Torts & Asbestos Practice, Patrick has handled many insurance coverage cases, prevailing on a number of them through summary judgment proceedings. His advocacy on behalf of the firm's insurance clients is not limited to pure coverage disputes. Patrick has also successfully defended breach of contract, bad faith, Section 155 actions, and other proceedings ancillary to coverage issues, such as interpleader actions. Patrick has written extensively on insurance coverage matters, including co-authoring a chapter appearing within the Commercial and Professional Liability Insurance Practice Handbook, published by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Patrick is a regular speaker on insurance coverage matters, including speaking at national insurance conferences.

Patrick also defends clients in class action litigation. His experience includes the preparation of briefs at both the trial court and appellate court level, including successfully preserving a dismissal order of consumer fraud claims in a case before the Fifth District Appellate Court of Illinois. He also has taken part in the formulation of discovery plans and defense strategies, and taken and defended depositions in class actions cases, including the depositions of named class representatives.

Since 2004, Patrick's experience has also included handling products liability cases, auto and trucking cases, medical device products liability cases, and construction accident cases.

As a native of the St. Louis area, Patrick joined the firm in its Edwardsville office following graduation from law school. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, graduating summa cum laude and being elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is a Washington University School of Law graduate, being elected to the Order of the Coif upon graduation. He was named a Super Lawyer Rising Star – Illinois (2012-2018), and is a graduate of the International Association of Defense Counsel Trial Academy.

• "Intentional Act Exclusion," chapter in Commercial and Professional Liability Insurance Practice Handbook, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education Handbook (2014, 2019, 2023)
• “Section 155 Necessitates A Separate Action on the Policy,” Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly (2022) - Read Article
• “Equitable Contribution versus Equitable Subrogation: A Brief Overview,” Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly (2021) - Read Article
• “An Insured Does Not Control Its Insurer,” Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (2020)
• “Rise of the Machines: Cyber-Based Liability and Its Attendant Coverage Questions,” Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly Monograph (2020) - Read Article
• “The Insurance Placement Liability Act After Skaperdas v. Country Casualty Insurance Company,” Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly (2019) - Read Article
• “Insurer Exposure to Extracontractual Liability: An Overview,” Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly Monograph (2018) - Download Article
• “An Examination of Reasonableness Requirements for Settlements by Insureds: Central Mutual Insurance Company v. Tracy’s Treasures, Inc.,” Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly (2018) - Download Article
• “Settling Without Consent: The When and The How,” FDCC Insights, A Journal for Defense and Corporate Counsel (2016) - Download Article
• "Additional Limits to the Targeted Tender Doctrine: AMCO Insurance Co. v. Cincinnati Insurance Co.," Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly (2015) - Download Article
  
• "Survey of Insurance Law Cases," Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel's 2013 Survey of Law (2014) - Download Article
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• “Motorized Vehicles: Liability & Coverage Issues”
  PLRB Claims Conference 2023
• “Passage and Development of the Insurance Placement Liability Act”
  Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel Online Seminar 2019
• “Darkness Falls: Exposure to Extracontractual Liability”
  Heyl Royster's 33rd Annual Claims Handling Seminar 2018
• “Independent Counsel and the Ethics of the Tripartite Relationship”
  Insurance Coverage Institute: Downstate 2018
• “Off the Field: Insurance Coverage Issues”
  Heyl Royster's 32nd Annual Claims Handling Seminar 2017
• “Working Through Not-So-Common Coverage Issues”
  Heyl Royster's 31st Annual Claims Handling Seminar 2016
• “The Insurance Jungle – Navigating Your Way to Successful Results”
  Moderator, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, St. Louis, Missouri 2015
• “Uncertainty Piled Onto Confusion: Jury Instructions In Construction Cases After Ramirez v. FCL Builders”
  IDC 2015 Statewide CLE Series, Edwardsville, Illinois 2015
• “Handling Insurance Coverage Disputes”
  Moderator, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Bloomington, Illinois 2014
• “Personal Auto Policy: The Fundamentals”
  PLRB/LIRB Claims Conference & Insurance Services Expo, Orlando, Florida 2012
• “Personal Auto Policy: The Fundamentals”
  PLRB/LIRB Claims Conference & Insurance Services Expo, Nashville, TN 2011
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• Selected as a Leading Lawyer in Illinois. Only five percent of lawyers in the state are named as Leading Lawyers.
• Named one of "40 Under Forty" attorneys to watch in Illinois by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company. This honor recognizes exceptional lawyering skills, significant contributions to the legal profession and substantial involvement in local community.
• Named to the Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Stars list (2012-2018). The Super Lawyers Rising Stars selection process is based on peer recognition and professional achievement. Only 2.5 percent of Illinois lawyers under the age of 40 or who have been practicing 10 years or less earn this designation.
• Named to Law Bulletin Publishing Company's list of Illinois Emerging Lawyers (2015-2017). Only two percent of Illinois lawyers under the age of 40 or who have been licensed to practice for 10 years or less earn this distinction.

• State Courts of Illinois and Missouri
• United States District Court, Central and Southern Districts of Illinois
• United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
• United States Court of Appeals, Seventh & Eighth Circuits