Patrick is a principal in Ober|Kaler's Washington, D.C. office where he focuses on health care transactions, business and tax planning, structuring joint ventures and other relationships among hospitals and between physicians and hospitals, and the general representation of nonprofit corporations and charities. Patrick also is a member of the firm's Nonprofits Group.

Except for a short stint in the Environmental Protection Agency's General Counsel's Office, Patrick has focused his practice on health care and nonprofit law since the late 1970's. Patrick's practice is national in scope and consists primarily of representing hospitals, hospital systems, long term care providers and physician groups in the planning and implementation of collaborative transactions such as acquisitions, mergers, affiliations, joint ventures, and networks. He is experienced in designing and structuring such transactions in conformance with relevant laws and regulations, negotiating the transactions, preparing necessary documents, and counseling on the transactions' implementation and operations thereafter. He also serves as general counsel to several national charities.

Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia

United States Courts of Appeal for the Ninth and District of Columbia Circuits

United States Supreme Court

Stanford University Law School, J.D., 1971

Brown University, B.A., 1968

American Health Lawyers Association

Food & Friends

Board of Directors, 2005-2007

Listed since 2006 in The Best Lawyers in America, Health Law category and in the Non-profit/Charities Law category for 2008 (Woodward/White, Inc.)

Listed in Washington, DC Super Lawyers, 2007

Selected by Nightingale's Healthcare News as one of the Outstanding Healthcare Transaction Lawyers for 2005 and 2006

Patrick has authored over fifty articles on various health law topics. He has published articles in Healthcare Financial Management, Modern Healthcare, Health Progress, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy among others, and is author of the chapter "Organizing a Nonprofit," published in Ober|Kaler's The Nonprofit Legal Landscape by BoardSource, 2004. Patrick has made presentations at numerous national and regional seminars, including those sponsored by the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the American Health Lawyers Association.

American University Washington College of Law, Adjunct Faculty

Captain and Military Judge, United States Marine Corps Reserve, Active Duty