Patrick Murphy

Patrick Murphy http://www.dworkenlaw.com/attorneys/partners/patrick-murphy/  received his undergraduate degree in Political Science from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. He was awarded his law degree from Cleveland Marshall College of Law in Cleveland, Ohio.

Mr. Murphy is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys, the Ohio Association of Trial Lawyers, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the Attorney Information Exchange Group, the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, the Lake County Bar Association, and the Ashtabula County Bar Association. He is admitted to practice in all Ohio courts since 1986; the United State District Court Northern District of Ohio since 1987; and the United States Court of Claims since 1991.

Mr. Murphy's practice includes litigation, personal injury, workers' compensation, products liability, and insurance law.

Dworken & Bernstein www.dworkenlaw.com offers a full range of legal services for businesses, individuals, and families in litigation and transactions with offices in Painesville and downtown Cleveland. Dworken & Bernstein is the largest law firm in the Lake, Geauga, and Ashtabula County area.

Ohio Lawyers Give Back www.ohiolawyersgiveback.org was founded by Dworken & Bernstein Co., L.P.A. to promote the use of cy pres in class action settlements. When a class action is settled, plaintiff and defendant agree to a fund amount to pay all class members. Since many class members have moved, passed-away, or can't be found, millions of settlement dollars go unclaimed. That settlement money is intended to benefit the class—rather than revert to the wrongdoing defendant—so the ancient doctrine is now being used to distribute the unclaimed money to charities and non profits.

Over $22 million dollars has already been distributed, just by the sponsors, a single law firm. If cy pres were used more broadly, hundreds of millions of dollars each year would be available to help charities, non-profits, and the communities where we live. This website is dedicated to advancing the use of cy pres in all class action settlements where a large pool of unclaimed settlement funds is expected.