Patrick Matusky

is a Partner in Duane Morris LLP. He concentrates his practice in the areas of complex commercial litigation, with a focus on lawyer professional liability and responsibility. He is a member of the Firm's Trial Practice and Professional Liability Practice Groups.

Pat has extensive trial, appellate and alternative dispute resolution experience in complex commercial litigation in a broad range of substantive areas. Pat regularly represents lawyers and law firms providing counselling and training in the areas of legal ethics, the law governing lawyers and law firm risk management. He has defended lawyers and law firms in disciplinary matters and legal malpractice and other professional liability claims, including claims alleging fraud, conspiracy and aiding and abetting client misconduct. He has also represented lawyers and law firms in business disputes arising out of lawyer departures and law firm break ups. He has served in a fiduciary capacity in connection with a major law firm dissolution.

Pat formerly served as General Counsel to a mid Atlantic regional law firm. In that role, Pat was responsible for the ethics, loss prevention, risk management, insurance acquisition, and claims handling, reporting and defense functions of that firm's multi-jurisdictional law and government relations practices. He currently serves as Loss Prevention Counsel of Duane Morris' Cherry Hill office.

A summa cum laude graduate of Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law (J.D. 1982) and of Temple University Fox School of Business Administration (B.B.A. 1977), Pat is admitted and has actively practiced in the courts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida.

Resume

Experience

•Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2009-present
•WolfBlock LLP
- Partner, 1990-2009
-- General Counsel, 2002-2009
-- Managing Partner, New Jersey Office, 1998-2003
- Associate, 1982-1990

Honors and Awards

•Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2009-2020

•Listed in Best Lawyers Greater Philadelphia, 2016
•Listed in New Jersey Super Lawyers, 2012-2013

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Publications and Speaking Engagements

Selected Publications

•Co-author, Nostradums, Esquire? Making the Enforceability of Advance Conflict Waivers by Sophisticated, Independently Represented Clients More Predictable for Non-Clairvoyant Lawyers, New Jersey Lawyer, December 2011

Selected Speaking Engagements

•Presenter, Loss Prevention Program, All in the Family: Daylight Greetings, Inc. v. Hauptmann DVK, LLP, Attorneys' Liability Assurance Society Ltd. (ALAS) Annual General Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 18, 2015
•Speaker, Before the Doors Close: Management and Liability Lessons Learned from Failed Law Firms, American Bar Association's Fall 2013 National Legal Malpractice Conference, San Diego, California, September 18, 2013
•Speaker, National Business Institute Seminar, Legal Ethics for Everyday Practice: Responsible Management of Attorney Fees and Trust Accounts, Atlantic City, New Jersey, December 17, 2012
•Speaker, Ethics Implications of the 'Bounty Hunter' Whistleblower Rules, Delaware Valley Association of Corporate Counsel - In House Counsel Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 16, 2012
•Speaker, Comparative Legal Ethics - PA & NJ: You Mean They Are Different, Pennsylvania Bar Institute's 17th Annual Employment Law Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 27, 2011
•Speaker, Internal Investigations: How the Investigators Have Become the Investigated, ABA National Conference on Professional Responsibility, Seattle, Washington, June 4, 2010
•Speaker, Firm Counsel Project Roundtable-'This is Privileged, Right?' The Scope of the Privilege for Internal Firm Communications, American Bar Association's Fall 2009 National Legal Malpractice Conference: Identifying Risk in a Changing Law Firm Landscape, Chicago, Illinois, September 24, 2009
•Speaker, Ethical Minefields for In-House Counsel, Delaware Valley Association of Corporate Counsel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 21, 2007
•Speaker, Lateral Partner Due Diligence and Integration, Aon Large Law Firm Symposium, Chicago, Illinois, October 12, 2006
•Speaker, Corporate Crisis Management, Association of Corporate Counsel Greater New York Chapter, New York, New York, June 21, 2006
•Speaker, Multijurisdictional Practice, Aon Large Law Firm Symposium, Chicago, Illinois, October 20, 2004
•Lawyer Client Seminars: Mr. Matusky has regularly participated in CLE seminars presented for the in-house law departments of client companies.