Hon. Patrick J. King (Ret.) brings nearly 40 years of experience, including 26 years as a trial judge, to his full-time practice at JAMS, providing arbitration, mediation, civil and criminal mini-trials, as well as discovery and case management services. His experience as a trial judge handling cases ranging from complex business disputes to medical malpractice cases provides him with a unique insight that enables him to resolve a broad range of complex cases.
ADR Experience and Qualifications
As a JAMS neutral since March 2003, Judge King has mediated and arbitrated a wide variety of cases including:
- Business/Commercial: accounting, banking, engineering, non-competition agreements, breach of fiduciary duty; franchise disputes; breach of contract; corporate governance; consumer protection; unfair and deceptive practices; shareholder actions; stock options; fraudulent business practices; and partnership disputes
- Construction: residential and commercial construction defects; failure to complete construction in a timely manner; and unforeseen site conditions in public construction contracts
- Employment: wrongful termination; age, sex, disability, and race discrimination; ERISA violations; breach of non-competition agreements; and civil rights violation claims
- Insurance coverage: insurance coverage and unfair settlement practice issues
- Intellectual property: patent and trademark infringement, copyright and trade secret cases
- Negligence: wrongful death; legal, medical, and other professional malpractice; premises liability; and various other personal injury claims
- Real property: options to purchase; zoning; and lease violations
Representative Matters
- Resolved a $100 million ERISA claim against a pension fund manager
- Resolved a complex series of disputes among shareholders of a closely held real estate development corporation
- Resolved ERISA claims brought by employees against employer
- Resolved complex insurance coverage dispute involving weather income stabilization policies
- Resolved multiple lawsuits between major shopping mall developer and business adversely affected by planned shopping mall
- Resolved legal malpractice cases
- Resolved medical malpractice cases
- Resolved employment discrimination cases
- Resolved fraud claim relating to purchase of shares in a closely held corporation
- Resolved real estate dispute involving alleged forfeiture of option to purchase
- Resolved damage claim brought by investment banker against a corporation for whom banker had arranged a private offering
- Arbitrated complex multi-defendant medical malpractice cases
- Arbitrated complex construction defect cases
- Arbitrated franchise dispute cases