Thomas e patterson biography of michael
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Thomas E. Patterson
My as yet unwritten memoir is going to be called &#;Confessions of a Trial Lawyer.&#; I don’t know if they will be more interesting than St. Augustine’s, but they will be less mysterious than St. Patrick’s. Until then, I briefly note a few relevant background facts.
Early leadership:
Twice elected President of the Student Senate in college, I learned how to debate opponents, choose winning political issues, and efficiently manage an organization of independent-minded representatives. (Today I debate opponents in court in every case, select themes to appeal to juries, and despise meetings that drag on and accomplish nothing.)
Straight commission salesman:
After graduation, I became a straight commission salesman to earn the money for law school. We were trained in the salesmanship principles of Xerox Corporation: how to accent benefits, use directive and non-directive questions, and rebut easy and difficult objections. (Today I use the same questioning t
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Thomas G. Paterson
Professor Emeritus
Following Tom Paterson’s retirement from the University of Connecticut in after thirty years on the faculty, a symposium of foreign relations historians from around the country gathered in Storrs to honor the career of a truly extraordinary scholar, teacher, and builder of community. As the keynote speaker, Walter LaFeber of Cornell University, put it, should be understood as “The Tom Paterson Era in Foreign Relations History.” That was not an exaggeration.
Tom’s propelled the UConn History Department into the front ranks of the nation in terms of the teaching and writing of foreign relations history. Paterson’s books quickly established his reputation as an expert on the Cold War and on U.S. relations with Latin America. He published Soviet-American Confrontation (Johns Hopkins, ), On Every Front (Norton, and ), Meeting the Communist Threat (Oxford, ), and Contesting Castro (Oxford), Paterson also edited highly influential books,
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Thomas E. Patterson
Thomas E. Patterson is a member of KTBS.
Mr. Patterson has represented debtors, creditors’ committees, and secured creditors in many large chapter 11 cases, and has also been involved in many significant insurer insolvency matters in California.
Recently, he has been involved in a series of restructurings in the healthcare area, in and out-of-court, on behalf of a publicly-traded REIT, and represented the interests of a significant group of survivors of child sexuell abuse in the Boy Scouts of America chapter 11 case.
Mr. Patterson graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy with First Class Honors. He attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence (First Class) in and a Bachelor of Civil lag (First Class) in He served as a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at The lag School, University of Chicago, — After being named partner at Sidley & Austin in