EDITORIAL REVIEW

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The longtime patients’ advocate and author of “The Life You Save” scored a nearly $6M verdict against a dermatology practice.



He recovered $5.8 million for a serial-stroke victim that went undiagnosed and $3.7 million for the family of a college student whom an undercover cop shot to death.




VISITOR RATINGS (on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being best)

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ANONYMOUS REVIEWER
relationship: work together (Litigation) rates/fees: Contingency. comments: An outstanding lawyer of great integrity.		service 9 expertise 10 quality 10 overall 10 recommend? yes

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WILLIAM DUCKWORTH
relationship: represented my daughter (Medical Malpractice) rates/fees: 20% comments: I could have not been more pleased with how my daughter's claim was handled by Mr. Malone. My daughter had a hypoxic brain injury at birth due to the rupturing of my wife’s uterus. Pat did extensive research to prove that this was caused by negligence of the medical staff. For 3 years he worked tirelessly on my daughters behalf. With Pat’s help we now have the resources to provide our daughter with all the medical services that she requires. We know Pat thought of our daughter as much more than just a “client”. He was available to answer any and all questions we had and always kept us informed as to the status of the case. As you can see I cannot say enough good things about Mr. Malone and would highly recommend his legal services to anyone.		service 10 expertise 10 quality 10 overall 10 recommend? yes

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RON SIMON , Attorney
relationship: co-counsel and colleague (complicated medical negligence, product liability and consumer cases) rates/fees: n/a comments: this lawyer is universally respected by lawyers in the local jurisdictions and when other lawyers have questions on difficult issues, he is the prime and most reliable source of good information both legal and practical		service 10 expertise 10 quality 9 overall 9 recommend? yes

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PRISCILLA PHILLIPS , RN, CCM, CLCP
relationship: I acted as an expert witness on behalf of Mr Malone's client(s) (personal injury medical malpractice) rates/fees: N/A comments: Mr. Malone has the utmost integrity when working with experts. He provides information necessary and respects the opinions offered. In regard to his clients, he shows remarkable caring and understands the humaness of us all.		service 10 expertise 10 quality 10 overall 10 recommend? yes

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KHALED ABOU EL FADL
relationship: I have worked on many cases with him (I'm a trial consultant). (P.I. on numerous cases.) rates/fees: Normal contingency. comments: Due to his significant verdicts and teaching work, as well as his book (RULES OF THE ROAD) which is among the most influential trial advocacy books in print, Malone is a key figure in the field today. Brilliant, 100% ethical, and exactly the kind of man we want as the fact of the profession.		service 10 expertise 10 quality 10 overall 10 recommend? yes

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ANONYMOUS REVIEWER
relationship: represented me (Medical suit involving an unconsented surgery performed) rates/fees: standard comments: Excellent beyond all my expectations. I felt as though he was always there for me and made the whole process painless. I could not have been more pleased and happy with the service he rendered. He is a man of principles, he was fair and he was just. I would recommend him to anyone seeking a lawyer.		service 10 expertise 10 quality 10 overall 10 recommend? yes

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ANONYMOUS REVIEWER
relationship: represented me (Johnson vs Kreitmann) rates/fees: 33% comments: Patrick Malone dealt with me compassionately and honestly. He kept me informed during each stage of the process. Mr. Malone researched my condition extensively, familiarizing himself with the terminology, causes, and effects of my condition. He consulted with several experts on my condition and gathered so much information that the opposing attorney was left with no choice but to settle my case.		service 10 expertise 9 quality 9 overall 10 recommend? yes

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ANONYMOUS REVIEWER
relationship: other - I co-counseled a case with him. (Predatory mortgage lending/consumer cases: Cooper v. First Government Mortgage and Investors Corp.) rates/fees: Mr. Malone accepted this case representing 10 elderly victims of mortgage fraud on a pro bono basis. Plaintiffs settled with many of the defendants and prevailed on all their claims against the defen comments: Mr. Malone has many innate qualities that make him a great attorney: he is an excellent writer; he learns quickly; he has good instincts in negotiations and in the courtroom; he comes to the practice of law with a natural zeal for representing clients' interests.		service 10 expertise 10 quality 10 overall 10 recommend? yes

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ANONYMOUS REVIEWER
relationship: represented me (medical malpractice) rates/fees: c. 37% plus expenses comments: Mr. Malone succeeded in obtaining a settlement favorable to my wife and to me in a situation involving surgical medical malpractice that has resulted in massive additional paralysis and autonomic dysreflexia, spinal shock and other problems that have developed as a direct result of that surgury, which occurred in 1989. The surgeon was the Chief of Neurosurgury in a very large and well-known hospital that was well-represented. Furthermore, there was a pre-existing injury that the defendants tried to say was the cause of ALL of my paralysis. So it was not an easy case, but Mr. Malone was able to abtain a settlement that we were satisfied with and which kept the matter from a trial, which almost had to take place. We could not recommend Mr. Malone more highly. He is an outstanding attorney in a field where he stands out as one of the very finest, in my opinion (I was an attorney at the time of the surgery).		service 10 expertise 10 quality 10 overall 10 recommend? yes

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ANONYMOUS REVIEWER
relationship: represented me (Medical Mel-practice) rates/fees: 40 comments: Our overall experience was very good and we had a good working relationship with Pat. He listned to our concerns and presented the facts that we provided him		service 10 expertise 10 quality 10 overall 10 recommend? yes

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ANONYMOUS REVIEWER
relationship: other - Represented mother (malpractice (medical)) rates/fees: 60/40 split. Another "referral" attorney was involved. Maybe the reason for the 40%?? comments: None of the "TV" lawyers would take the case because of my mom's age. They didn't believe that a jury would award enough to make it WORTHWHILE!!		service 10 expertise 10 quality 10 overall 10 recommend? yes

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Patrick Malone & Associates, P.C.
1331 H Street, N.W.
Suite 902
Washington, D.C. 20005
202-742-1500
202-742-1515 (fax)

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. 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).

Patrick Malone is principal of Patrick Malone & Associates, P.C. He is a 1984 graduate of Yale Law School. He is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, an invitation-only society limited to 100 of the top plaintiffs’ personal injury attorneys in the United States. He is a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, an invitation-only honorary society limited to 500 fellows from both the plaintiff’s and defense bar. He was president of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., in 2005-06 and is a recipient of that organization’s “Lawyer of the Year” award.

The book which Malone co-authored, Rules of the Road: A Plaintiff Lawyer’s Guide to Proving Liability (Trial Guides 2006), has been praised by leading plaintiff’s lawyers as “must reading” for both experienced and novice trial lawyers.

Malone is a certified civil trial advocate of the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is a member of the American Law Institute. Malone served on the National Academy of Sciences’ Panel on Science, Technology and Law from 2000 to 2006. Malone is a frequent lecturer at continuing education programs for lawyers. He has lectured at grand rounds at Yale-New Haven Hospital and has spoken to others doctors’ groups. He has written articles for Trial, Litigation, The American Scholar and the Washington Post, among others.

His verdict in Benedi v. McNeil PPC remains one of the largest collected judgments against a pharmaceutical company. The case is reported at 66 F.3d 1378 (4th Cir. 1995) (affirming $8 million award for Malone’s client against Tylenol manufacturer for acetaminophen-induced liver failure).

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 and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Kansas in 1972, 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 son 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

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. Mr. Malone lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland with his wife Vicki and son Brendan.

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Q&A Best moment of career: Winning the next big case: It's always in the future, so it helps me keep fighting the good fight.   Worst moment of career: Losing a case for a wonderful client who deserved to win. Those moments, and there have been more than one, haunt me and spur me on.   Attorney you most admire: Gerry Spence has done more than any other attorney I can think of to teach lawyers how to turn their own weaknesses and flaws into powerful tools of advocacy for their clients.   Favorite activities (besides the Law): Photography, model railroading, bicycling, reading, writing, swimming, cooking, eating.   Favorite Sports Team (if you have one), or Favorite Theater or Museum, etc: National Portrait Gallery in the old Patent Office building in Washington, DC. Close runnerup: Picasso Museum in Paris.   If you weren’t a lawyer, what would you be?:   What do you read most often:   Notable law school classmates:   Why are you proud to be a lawyer?: