Pat Clendenen is a partner in Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough’s Boston office. He is an experienced trial lawyer with a background both in business and fiduciary litigation, including consumer financial services, products liability, business tort, class action, derivative, and securities matters, and intellectual property litigation, including Internet, patent, trade dress, and trade secret matters. He has represented a wide range of public and private business and corporate clients both the state and federal courts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Illinois, Florida, Texas, Arizona, Ohio, and California. He has also represented business and corporate clients in international cross-border disputes, both in litigation and in alternative dispute resolution.  

Awards and Honors

• Massachusetts Super Lawyer in the Business Litigation category (2004)

Clerkships

• Clerked for two years with the Honorable Ellen Bree Burns, then Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Foundation
• Massachusetts Bar Foundation
• Fellow in the American Bar Association’s Section of Business Law
• Former member of the MBA’s Budget and Finance Committee
• Former member of the MBA’s Lawyer Referral Service Committee

Leadership Positions

• Co-chaired the ABA Business Law Section’s Fellows and Ambassadors Program
• Serves on the ABA's Council of the Business Law Section
• Serves on the ABA's Standing Committee on Meetings and Travel
• Serves as an editor of Business Law Today
• Vice chair of the Business and Corporate Litigation Committee
• Served on the ABA’s Special Committee on Gun Violence
• Former chair of the ABA's Business and Corporate Litigation Subcommittees on Pro Bono and Class and Derivative Actions
• Former editor of The Young Lawyer
• Former director of the ABA’s Young Lawyers Division
• Former chair of the YLD's Litigation Committee
• Chaired the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Civil Litigation Section Council  
• Served as a member of the MBA’s Executive Management Board
• Former chair of the MBA’s New Lawyers Section and its Community Services Subcommittee
• Served for two terms as a delegate-at-large to the MBA House of Delegates
• Served on the ABA Delegate Nominating Committee