M. Patrick McDowell

Patrick McDowell is licensed to practice in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee. His practice focuses on complex litigation in federal and state trial and appellate courts, including antitrust, contract, business tort, unfair competition, RICO, trademark, securities, product liability, drug and medical device, toxic exposure, and environmental litigation. He has successfully prosecuted and defended commercial disputes on behalf of entertainment, environmental, financial, food, insurance, manufacturing, technology, telecommunications, and television services providers. He has also successfully defended manufacturers, producers, and licensors against product liability, negligence, and toxic tort claims.

Patrick concentrates much of his practice on the defense of multi-state and federal multidistrict litigation, class actions, mass torts, and attorney general civil litigation. He has represented healthcare insurers and food producers in multidistrict antitrust class actions; telecommunications and technology services providers in multidistrict securities and ERISA class actions; employers, insurers, banks, and television service providers in federal class actions; drug, device, and other product manufacturers in multidistrict and multi-state mass tort actions; and drug and device manufacturers, healthcare insurers, and financial service providers in attorney general civil litigation.

Patrick has been recognized by Chambers USA© for Litigation: General Commercial; by Mid-South Super Lawyers® for Business Litigation; by Benchmark Litigation© as a Litigation Star for Appellate, Commercial, Environmental, and Intellectual Property; and by Best Lawyers© for Appellate Practice, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation–Healthcare, Litigation–Securities, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions–Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation–Defendants, Product Liability Litigation–Defendants, and Trade Secrets Law, including recognition as Litigation–Securities Lawyer of the Year for 2019 and 2021.

Patrick is a past president of the Mississippi Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and a member of the national FBA’s Constitution and Bylaws Committee. He is the immediate past chair of the IADC Class Actions and Multi-Party Litigation Committee, a recurring member of the IADC Corporate Counsel College Advisory Board, and is currently the programs vice chair of the IADC Business Litigation Committee. He previously served on the ABA Class Actions and Derivative Suits Committee as newsletter editor, and he currently serves on the DRI Commercial Litigation Committee steering committee as program vice chair. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and Litigation Counsel of America. He is president-elect of the Belmont University College of Law American Inn of Court and litigation group coordinator for the Southern Law Network.

Before joining the Brunini firm, Patrick served as a law clerk for the Honorable William H. Barbour, Jr., Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.