Patrick B. Moore
Litigation focuses on transportation, medical malpractice, environmental law, nursing home liability, product liability, employment law, criminal defense, and plaintiff’s personal injury. Has represented clients in litigation in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee, and has tried over 50 civil and criminal jury trials primarily as lead or sole counsel.
Representative Cases/Experience
- Defense verdict for warehouse management company on charges of false arrest and false imprisonment in Cobb County, Georgia.
- Defense verdict in Duval County, Florida for children’s hospital in case involving misdiagnosed hematoma, resulting in paralysis of a minor.
- Obtained verdict below settlement offer in conceded liability case in Sanford, Florida involving 2-year-old child with brain injury after being rear-ended by a truck while stopped at a drawbridge.
- Obtained favorable settlement below pre-trial offer in third week of nursing home trial in Memphis, Tennessee involving death due to decubitus ulcers.
- Defended truck driver charged with murder in highly-publicized traffic death of Tennessee highway patrolman; obtained a plea agreement for a reduced charge of vehicular homicide on the second day of the criminal trial. Additionally, obtained a favorable settlement after representing the trucking company at the civil trial of this case, where liability was conceded and a co-defendant was found to be 35 percent at fault.
- Obtained favorable settlement during second day of trial in Las Vegas, Nevada while defending a major pipe manufacturer in transportation case involving death of four adults and two children in Barstow, California.
- Representing plaintiff, obtained $2.6 million verdict against gas station in wrongful death case stemming from gas station's negligence in allowing a third party to use gas pump as a weapon during an altercation.
- Defense verdict at bench trial in San Jose, California, for Internet advertiser in case involving claims of unsolicited and misleading email advertisements.
Awards and Professional Recognition
- Named 2005, 2007 Georgia “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers and Atlanta magazines
Admissions to Practice
- State Bar of Georgia
- U.S. District Court, Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia
- U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Professional Memberships and Affiliations
- Atlanta Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Defense Research Institute
- Animal Legal Defense Fund
Education
- J.D., magna cum laude, University of Akron School of Law, 1995; Akron Law Review, Mock Trial Team
- B.A., Cornell University, 1992; Varsity Football
