Patrick Barry

In practice for over twenty-five years, Patrick has been recognized as an accomplished trial lawyer and patient safety advocate. He has handled many successful jury trials, including multi-million dollar jury verdicts and settlements in cases involving obstetrical and medical negligence, wrongful death, recreation and athletics, vehicle accidents, defective products, mental health and custodial treatment, and other claims. He has successfully pursued claims relating to brain injury, cerebral palsy, birth injury, spinal cord injuries, amputations, undiagnosed cancer, and other serious injury cases. In 2018, Patrick was named Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly "Lawyer of the Year" in recognition of a $32,000,000 jury verdict in a catastrophic injury trial.

More recently, he was selected as the 2026 Providence, RI "Lawyer of the Year" in Personal Injury Litigation by Best Lawyers. Mr. Barry has been selected for the New England Super Lawyers list every year since 2010 in medical malpractice, and in other years for general personal injury as well. He has twice been included in the Super Lawyers "Top Ten" for Rhode Island. He also holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest peer review rating available.

Patrick graduated from Boston University (B.A.) in 1990, and from Widener University School of Law (J.D., cum laude) in 1996. While in law school, Patrick was the Articles Editor of one of the school's law review publications. Patrick has also served as a member of the Rhode Island Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline from 2005 to 2013, appointed by former Rhode Island Governors Donald Carcieri and Lincoln Chafee, and completed two terms on Rhode Island's Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, appointed by Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul A. Suttell.

In 2022, Patrick was selected as President of the Rhode Island chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), having first been selected for membership in 2016. He is also a past president of the Rhode Island Association for Justice and a former national Governor of the American Association for Justice. Mr. Barry has written and lectured for numerous professional groups about patient safety, medical negligence, and personal injury topics, and authored the chapter on "Deposing Medical and Technical Experts" in the 2010 MCLE/New England publication A Practical Guide to Discovery and Depositions in Rhode Island, with updates through 2025.