Patrick represents clients in high-stakes environmental and natural resources litigation, including citizen suits involving state and federal environmental statutes, common law claims, and emerging regulatory theories. He works throughout industries ranging from public utilities and infrastructure operators to manufacturers and resource developers.

Prior to joining B&D, Patrick served as an Attorney-Advisor for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of the General Counsel’s Natural Resources and Environment Division in Washington, DC, where he advised and represented USDA and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) in numerous public lands management real property, water rights, hydropower, and other program implementation and national-scope litigation matters.

He has played a leading role in federal legislative and regulatory drafting and advised the agency on a number of issues related to land management, resource protection, hydropower, carbon stewardship, wetlands mitigation, and land and water conservation. Patrick served as USDA’s lead attorney on efforts to achieve a national framework for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers siting of wetlands mitigation projects on USFS Lands. Patrick additionally served as the lead attorney for USDA and USFS in prominent national litigation and negotiations.

In private practice, he also served as outside counsel and water counsel for state political subdivisions in prominent multiagency federal, state, tribal and local resource management and infrastructure efforts, including negotiating and litigating ESA and NEPA compliance for large water diversion projects such as on the Colorado River and Middle Rio Grande, in states including California, Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico, Colorado, and Oklahoma.