Patrick Malone is one of the leading attorneys in the United States who works on behalf of seriously injured people in lawsuits against doctors, hospitals, drug companies, government agencies, and other defendants. He has won a long series of exceptional verdicts and settlements for his clients. Mr. Malone is the author of the new book: The Life You Save: Nine Steps to Finding the Best Medical Care -- and Avoiding the Worst.  He is 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. He is a member of several prestigious invitation-only lawyer societies. He is recognized as a leader in the field by the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America (2008), The Best Lawyers in America (2006 edition to present), Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers, and the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Lawyers in America (2007). Lawdragon's profile of Patrick Malone includes feedback from clients he has represented.

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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.

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Patrick Malone is a son of the Midwest. He grew up in an Irish Catholic family in Wichita, Kansas, the oldest of seven children. 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. Malone 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 at 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. In 1985, Patrick Malone began his career as an attorney representing seriously injured people.