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At Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Patrick is active in the defense of a wide variety of litigation areas including motor vehicle liability, premises liability, and municipal liability. With his extensive criminal law background, Patrick also handles civil rights defense and insurance fraud cases. He has successfully handled several civil rights and municipal liability cases involving prisons and police departments. Patrick has represented a considerable number of police officers, police departments, municipalities, and prisons in civil rights litigation.

Patrick is a graduate of Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania. Following his graduation from college, Patrick attended Ohio Northern University School of Law where he achieved his Juris Doctorate degree in 1987. He then acted as law clerk for the Honorable Shad Connelly of the Court of Common Pleas for Erie County, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Marshall, Dennehey, Patrick served as an Erie County Assistant District Attorney for more than eight years. As an Assistant District Attorney, he tried over 100 criminal cases, including several high-profile homicide cases, together with several precedent-setting cases.

Patrick was an adjunct professor at Gannon University where he taught an undergraduate course in Criminal Evidence. He was also a lecturer in the joint project between the Erie County Courts and the Erie City School District entitled "Personal Responsibility and the Law." Patrick also was a regular lecturer in the Erie County Bar Association's "Stepping Out" program by which Erie County lawyers addressed high school students regarding legal issues facing them upon graduation.

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