Patrick Malone

Patrick Malone is one of the leading attorneys in the eastern United States working on behalf of seriously injured people in lawsuits against hospitals, doctors, drug companies, government agencies, and other defendants. He has won a long string of exceptional verdicts and settlements on behalf of his clients. He is the co-author of an acclaimed book teaching other attorneys how to win cases on behalf of plaintiffs. He frequently is invited to give educational lectures to lawyer groups around the country about cutting edge techniques in trial advocacy. Mr. Malone also has written extensively for his fellow lawyers. He is a member of several prestigious invitation-only societies of attorneys. He has been recognized as a leader in the field by The Best Lawyers in America (2006 edition to present) and by the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Lawyers in America(2007). Lawdragon's profile of Patrick Malone includes feedback from clients he has represented. * Patrick Malone's track record * Read reviews of Patrick Malone's book * List of recent lectures * Articles by Patrick Malone * Societies and legal organizations * Awards and honors for Patrick Malone * Client reviews and recommendations on Lawdragon His verdict in Benedi v. McNeil PPC remains one of the largest collected judgments against a pharmaceutical company.Mr. Malone was the president in 2005-06 of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. One experience that has brought Mr. Malone closer to his clients' disabilities is his own work raising his autistic son Brendan. His story about Brendan appears as Chapter One in the book, Up All Night: Practical Wisdom from Mothers and Fathers, a collection of essays by parents at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Washington, D.C. Click here to read the chapter at Amazon.com. Patrick Malone is a son of the Midwest. He grew up as the oldest of seven children in an Irish Catholic family in Wichita, Kansas. After graduating summa cum laude from the University of Kansas, he worked as a reporter for United Press International in Kansas City, then won a prestigious journalism fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he studied public health issues and wrote freelance articles for the Washington Post. He then worked as a medical writer and investigative reporter for the Miami Herald, where he won a number of awards, including a finalist designation for the Pulitzer Prize for a series co-authored on “dangerous doctors.” After he was accepted to attend Yale Law School, Malone and his wife Vicki sold their home in Miami and moved to a rental apartment in New Haven, Connecticut with their infant son. They had one more son while at Yale and a third after moving to the Washington area. At Yale, Malone won several student awards, including best “moot court” argument. He worked for a year after graduating for a prominent federal judge, U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell in Washington, D.C. Then in 1985 he began his career as an attorney representing seriously injured people.