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<h5>Trial lawyers for businesses, professionals, and entrepreneurs.</h5>
Our mission is to provide effective, efficient, and ethical legal services.<br>
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We win lawsuits by thorough research; good writing; creative investigation; salesmanship; and honesty. <a href="../ourwork/index.html" target="_parent">Click here for examples</a>.<br>
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We efficiently prepare cases because of our experience and use of new technology. Identifying with the people who are paying the bill, we estimate fees in advance and keep in mind your big picture. <a href="../what/index.html" target="_parent">Click here for our fields of experience</a>.<br>
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Ethical service requires honest dealings with our clients, the courts, and our opponents.<br>
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About 70 percent of our work is referred by other lawyers because of our unique practice fields, our ability to handle difficult and document intensive cases, and our willingness to work cooperatively with referring attorneys.<br>
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Nearly 80 percent of our work involves the preparation and trial of lawsuits. The remainder involves counseling or transactions work to facilitate business transactions, reduce the risk of lawsuits, or protect assets.<br>
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<a name="bio"></a><b>Thomas E. Patterson</b> graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1975, was a salesman for one year, and then attended law school, graduating from DePaul University in 1979. In law school, he was an editor of the Law Review and published a Note, <span class="case">Ex Parte Contacts in Informal Rulemaking Proceedings: Home Box Office v. FCC</span>, 27 DePaul Law Review 489 (1978), which the Administrative Law Committee of the Illinois State Bar Association reviewed as "unusually perceptive."<br>
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After law school, he became a law clerk for Justice William G. Clark of the Illinois Supreme Court, where he observed the inner workings of the state's highest court, noted winning advocacy skills, and researched and wrote memoranda for the opinions that were issued.<br>
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Mr. Patterson was an associate and then equity partner at the law firm of Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon and a founding principal of the law firm of Hickey, Driscoll, Kurfirst, Patterson & Melia, Chtd. before starting the Patterson Law Firm on April 14, 2000.<br>
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<h5>Bar Association Memberships:</h5>
<b>American Bar Association.</b><br>
Committee memberships:
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<li>Corporate Banking & Business</li>
<li>Tort & Insurance Practice</li>
<li>Litigation</li></ul>
<b>Illinois State Bar Association.</b><br>
Committee memberships:
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<li>Judicial Evaluations Committee</li></ul>
<b>DuPage County Bar Association.</b>
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