Michael A. Patterson is a partner with Long Law Firm, L.L.P., in its Baton Rouge office. He received a BA degree in 1968 and his JD degree in 1971 from Louisiana State University and Paul M. Hebert Law Center. He received a certificate in dispute resolution and an LLM in dispute resolution in 2008 from Pepperdine University. He was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 1971 and in Washington, D.C., in 1988.
His practice is focused in business litigation, professional liability, discipline, mediation and settlement counsel. He has been mediating cases for more than 20 years and has handled cases in virtually every area of law. He is a panel member of the United States District Court Middle District Register of Neutrals, a panelist on the Louisiana State Bar Association’s (LSBA) Fee Dispute Resolution Program and a mediation panel member of the American Arbitration Association.
Mike served as judge pro tempore on the 1st Circuit Court of Appeal in 2002. He was the 2007 recipient of the California Dispute Resolution Council “Excellence in Dispute Resolution” Scholarship. He is an adjunct professor of trial advocacy and evidence at Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center.
Very active in the LSBA, Mike served as president-elect in 2009-10 and has chaired the Lawyers in Transition Committee since 2007. He chaired the Legislation Committee from 2003-05, chaired the Bar Governance Committee from 1997-99, chaired the Bench and Bar Section in 1993-94, and served on the Board of Governors from 1987-89 and in the House of Delegates from 1978-82. He received the LSBA President’s Award in 1999.
Mike worked with the Committee on Bar Admissions in several capacities —chair, 1997-2000; secretary/director of character and fitness, 1992-97; bar examiner, 1990-94; and assistant grader, 1978-90. He is a Fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation and served on the board of directors from 1997-2000, chairing the IOLTA Administrative Committee in 1997 and serving on the IOLTA Grants Committee.
He has held every elected position in the Baton Rouge Bar Association, serving as president in 1984-85. During his tenure as president, he obtained a grant from the American Bar Association to establish the first pro bono plan in Louisiana and hired the first full-time executive director. He was named Lawyer of the Year in 1989. He served as the original director of the Baton Rouge Lawyer Referral Service, and chaired the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, the BBB/Baton Rouge Bar Consumer Arbitration Panel and the Law School Liaison and Civil Courts Committee. He is a Lifetime Fellow of the Baton Rouge Bar Foundation and chaired the board of trustees in 1991-92.
Mike served as chair and vice chair of the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center Chancellor’s Council. Additionally, he is a member of the American Bar Association (Section on Litigation, Subcommittee on State Evidence Rules); the Bars of the United States Supreme Court, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th and 11th Circuits and the 5th Federal Circuit; the American Inn of Court; and the Louisiana Association for Justice. He also serves on the American Arbitration Association’s Construction Panel and Mediation Panel.
He has authored and co-authored legal articles, authored a chapter in Woodard’s Louisiana Trial Procedure, and is a frequent lecturer at CLE seminars.
Mike and his wife, Christine Lipsey, have been married for 26 years. He is the father of one son.
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