Patrick Malone

Patrick Malone is a leading patient safety advocate and medical malpractice attorney, based in Washington, D.C. He was born in 1951 and grew up in an Irish Catholic family in Wichita, Kansas, the oldest of seven children. He worked as a medical writer and investigative reporter for the Miami Herald before attending Yale Law School. 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, he began his career as an attorney representing seriously injured people. He is a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and was named to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America and the Irish Legal 100. He and his wife Vicki have three sons. They live in Chevy Chase, Maryland. 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. More information about Mr. Malone's law career is on his firm's web site: http://www.patrickmalonelaw.com.