Patrick Lewis represents clients in high-stakes litigation, with emphases on class-action defense, commercial litigation and election law matters. Patrick defines the issues facing clients early on and helps them craft a winning litigation strategy and navigate complex legal and discovery challenges. He has experience trying difficult cases in both federal and state court and frequently represents his clients on appeal.
Patrick has in-depth experience with matters affecting the financial services industry, having represented clients in this space for most of his career. He recently completed a four-year secondment to 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 expertise 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, recently trying high-impact redistricting cases in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, 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.
Class Action & Commercial
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.