Careers

Diversity

With 18 offices, from New York to Los Angeles and Seattle to Orlando, we live and work in communities all over the U.S., collaborating across locations, disciplines and even borders. Our experienced, highly ranked lawyers serve businesses wherever they are and wherever they want to go.

Offices

About Us

Pages

Professionals

Thought leadership: blogs, podcasts, videos, publications, events and news

Insights

Services

Pro Bono

Am Law 100 firm with practices in Business, Digital Assets and Data Management, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Litigation and Tax.

Home | BakerHostetler

The Bargaining Table

‘Preemption? What Preemption?’ New York Bill Attempts To Supplant the NLRB

What’s Happening at TCEQ: An Update from Chairwoman Brooke Paup

Analysis of the 2025 Federal Tax Changes Under the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Legislation

Jacqueline Romero, Former US Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Joins BakerHostetler’s Premier White Collar Team

Patrick has in-depth experience with matters affecting the financial services industry, having represented clients in this space for most of his career. He had the unique experience of being seconded for four years to the legal department of a super-regional bank, where he managed portfolios of consumer and commercial litigation across the bank’s multistate footprint, successfully resolving over a hundred matters. Patrick also leverages his financial services experience to assist banks and other secured parties in restructuring work, with experience in loan workouts, foreclosure/receivership litigation and bankruptcy proceedings.

Finally, Patrick maintains a national election-law practice, where he has tried high-impact redistricting and voting-rights cases in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Louisiana, Ohio and Virginia. He has represented members of Congress, legislative bodies, candidates, political parties and other stakeholders in litigation involving redistricting, challenges to electoral procedures, and recounts and election contests. He has also represented clients in state and FEC campaign-finance enforcement proceedings under state and federal campaign finance law.

core/freeform

J.D., Harvard Law School, 2004, 

A.B., Economics and Government, College of William and Mary, 2000, 

<ul>
<li>Ohio Super Lawyers &#8220;Rising Star&#8221; (2014 to 2019)</li>
</ul>

Cleveland

Federal Court Rules False Claims Act’s Whistleblower Provisions Are Unconstitutional

SCOTUS Majority Affirms the DOJ’s Ability to Dismiss Whistleblower Cases Under the False Claims Act — But Dissent Raises Suspicion of the Constitutionality of Such Whistleblower Cases

BakerHostetler White Collar Team Sets Precedent in Fifth Circuit Victory

Scott Holbrook, Patrick Lewis Called “Super Heroes” for Work on Home Restoration Deal

150 BakerHostetler Attorneys Named 2016 Super Lawyers; 91 Named Rising Stars

Commercial Litigation

Class Action Defense

Restructuring and Bankruptcy

Litigation

Appellate and Major Motions

Industries

Financial Services: Restructuring

Political Law

False Claims Act

Multidistrict Litigation

Financial Services

Class Action and Commercial
<ul>
<li>Successfully defended on appeal the dismissal of a multistate class action checking overdraft lawsuit challenging a bank client’s policy of electronically sequencing debits and credits from the largest to the smallest amounts. The plaintiffs’ claims, brought under Ohio common law and the Expedited Funds Availability Act, were dismissed with prejudice.</li>
<li>Defended a prominent Ohio bank in litigation involving several tort and equitable claims brought by another lender in the aftermath of a nearly $10 million commercial loan refinance gone sour, all predicated on the plaintiff’s allegation that a loan officer orally agreed to release a multimillion-dollar mortgage on land as part of a refinance of other debt. Matter settled after nearly every claim was dismissed.</li>
<li>After securing a partial dismissal of the plaintiffs’ claims, negotiated an early settlement for a financial institution in a statewide class action brought by Minnesota consumers alleging their automobiles had been improperly repossessed.</li>
<li>Representing super-regional financial institution in connection with multiple national putative class actions challenging certain of the bank’s alleged checking and card-related fees practices.</li>
<li>Represented a credit life insurance company in putative multistate class action litigation arising out of challenges to the carrier’s claims handling practices.</li>
<li>Defended Ohio’s three largest banks in a putative class action brought by county prosecutors challenging the use of the MERS System and seeking to require lenders to publicly record all residential mortgage assignments in the state of Ohio.</li>
<li>Defended clients from claims arising under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the Expedited Funds Availability Act (EFAA) and other consumer-protection statutes.</li>
<li>Represented a secured creditor with a $12 million claim in a complex Chapter 11 proceeding to include defending the client’s lien position and securing favorable cash collateral orders and plan treatment; also prosecuted related-party state court foreclosure proceedings in two states. The creditor was repaid nearly in full.</li>
<li>Served as lead counsel to a real estate investor and borrower in high-profile litigation with a lender arising out of a nonrecourse $135 million commercial mortgage-backed security loan used to acquire a multibuilding office portfolio in suburban Cleveland. The lender claimed that the borrower and investor were personally liable for the loan under controversial nonrecourse “carve out” provisions.</li>
<li>Represented a special servicer in complex foreclosure and receivership litigation to liquidate defaulted portfolio of hospitality properties, including securing the dismissal of multiple Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings.</li>
</ul>
Election Law
<ul>
<li>Represented the leaders of the North Carolina Senate and House of Representatives in landmark redistricting litigation in state and federal litigations in both the 2010 and 2020 cycle. (Common Cause v. Lewis; Harper v. Hall; Pierce v. N.C. State Bd. of Elec.; Williams v. Hall)</li>
<li>Represented the leaders of the Louisiana Senate and House of Representatives in federal litigation challenging the state’s congressional and legislative redistricting plans. (Robinson v. Landry; Nairne v. Landry)</li>
<li>Represented the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission in defending a series of challenges to its state and congressional redistricting plans in state and federal court. (Detroit Caucus v. MICRC; Banerian v. Benson; Agee v. Benson)</li>
<li>Represented eight members of Congress from Ohio in successfully defending the 2011 Congressional redistricting plan in the case brought before a three-judge panel in the Southern District of Ohio alleging a partisan-gerrymandering claim. (Ohio A. Philip Randolph Inst. v. Householder)</li>
<li>Served as trial and appellate counsel to the Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in a political gerrymandering challenge against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Congressional districting plan. (League of Women Voters of Pa. v. Cmwlth.)</li>
<li>Represented candidates in recount and election-contest proceedings in Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina. In Virginia, defended the client’s House of Delegates victory against three different lawsuits, in both federal and state court, seeking to overturn the outcome of that race, including helping to defeat an emergency stay application in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that would have prevented the candidate from being seated in the House of Delegates.</li>
<li>Represented the Ohio General Assembly in a 2014 challenge to legislation that reconfigured Ohio’s election calendar to end so-called “Golden Week.”</li>
</ul>

Patrick T. Lewis

Patrick T. Lewis

Experience

Recognitions and Memberships

Insights and News

Credentials

Community and Pro Bono

Areas of Focus

Industries

Services

Featured Insights