Patrick Uphues

Milwaukee, WI3 years experienceAdmitted 2022

About Patrick Uphues

Patrick D. Uphues is an attorney at Cannon & Dunphy S.C. focused on representing injured victims throughout Wisconsin.

Uphues earned his Juris Doctor cum laude from Marquette University Law School in 2022, where he made the Dean's List and received CALI Awards for the highest grades in Jurisprudence and Civil Pretrial Practice. He earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016 with a double major in chemistry and philosophy.

Before joining Cannon & Dunphy in October 2024, Uphues served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable William Sosnay of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court and clerked for two years at a Chicago personal injury law firm during law school. He is admitted to the State Bar of Wisconsin (2022) and is a member of the Wisconsin Association for Justice.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Cannon & Dunphy S.C.

These results are credited to Cannon & Dunphy S.C.. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A Walworth County jury found Waukesha Memorial Hospital liable after a nurse pushed air into a two-week-old premature infant's IV line during a blood transfusion, sending emboli to his brain and leaving him with permanent quadriplegia and no usable speech.

Walworth County Circuit Court, WI · 2008Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

A Milwaukee jury verdict and a related settlement delivered $25.24 million to a family after an unlicensed first-year resident spent 11 hours treating their teenage daughter for constipation while a twisted bowel killed the tissue it fed.

Milwaukee County Circuit Court, Milwaukee, WI · 2004Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$15 millionVerdictTop 20 in Wisconsin · #10

An Ozaukee County jury awarded the estate of Judith Cisewski $15 million after a retaining wall at her Port Washington senior living campus collapsed and buried her under concrete blocks for roughly two hours; she died the following day.

Ozaukee County Circuit Court, Wisconsin · 2025Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

The family of a three-year-old girl who died of E. coli traced to contaminated beef at a South Milwaukee Sizzler reached a $13.5 million settlement, among the largest food-borne-illness recoveries in the country.

Milwaukee County Circuit Court, Milwaukee, WI · 2008Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$12 millionSettlementTop 20 in Wisconsin · #12

Cannon & Dunphy recovered $12 million for two families after an illegally overloaded cement truck ran a red light in Waukesha County, killing a van's driver and leaving a passenger with permanent brain injuries.

Waukesha County, WITruck AccidentsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Wisconsin, admitted 2022
Wisconsin Association for Justice

Awards & recognition

CALI Award - Jurisprudence
CALI Award - Civil Pretrial Practice

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$11 Million Verdict for Estate of 88-Year-Old Who Developed Fatal Heel Wounds at Albuquerque Nursing Facility

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.