J. Patrick Strubel

Patrick Strubel always knew he wanted to be a trial lawyer, and from the moment he stepped into a courtroom, he knew he was exactly where he was meant to be. He grew up in Birmingham and studied history at Birmingham-Southern College before earning his J.D. from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in 2001. After his first year of law school, he clerked at Hare Wynn. After graduating, Patrick went into defense litigation to get into a courtroom immediately.

Over the next 25 years, he represented automobile manufacturers, hospitals, physicians, nursing facilities, and corporate defendants in personal injury and wrongful death cases across Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Arkansas, South Carolina, California, and Pennsylvania, trying dozens of those cases to verdict. For many years, he worked alongside the same defense teams that plaintiff's attorneys go up against every day, gaining a deep understanding of how corporations and insurance companies assess, value, and fight lawsuits. As he continued to grow as a litigator, he realized it was time to use that knowledge for individuals, not corporations. Patrick joined Hare Wynn and is proud to bring something most plaintiff's attorneys cannot offer: a complete picture of how the defense operates, built over 25 years from the inside.