Patrick Malone

Proven Verdicts
Washington, DC40 years experienceAdmitted 1985

About Patrick Malone

Patrick A. Malone is the founding partner of Patrick Malone & Associates, P.C. in Washington, D.C., a nationally recognized trial lawyer focused on medical malpractice, product liability, and serious personal injury cases. Before practicing law, he was an award-winning investigative journalist with United Press International and the Miami Herald, where his medical reporting series 'Dangerous Doctors' was a 1980 Pulitzer Prize finalist. After earning his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1984 - where he won the Harlan Fiske Stone and Potter Stewart Prizes for moot court, the C. LaRue Munson Prize, and edited the Yale Law Journal - he clerked for U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell. In more than 40 years of practice he has represented clients seriously injured by negligent doctors, hospitals, manufacturers, and corporations, and is a frequent author and lecturer on advocacy, cross-examination, and patient safety.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$8.85 millionVerdict

Patrick Malone won an $8.85 million verdict against the maker of Tylenol after a former White House aide lost his liver to a drug he took exactly as directed.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria) · 1994Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$8.35 millionVerdict

A D.C. Superior Court jury awarded $8.35 million after an orthopedic surgeon failed to recognize the loss of blood flow to an 82-year-old patient's leg following a knee replacement, leaving the limb to die and require an above-knee amputation.

Superior Court of the District of Columbia (Washington, DC) · 2017Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$5.8 millionVerdict

A Montgomery County jury found a Maryland dermatology practice liable for the death of 47-year-old attorney Richard Semsker, whose melanoma went untreated for two years.

Montgomery County Circuit Court (Rockville), Maryland · 2008Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$5.77 millionVerdict

A 40-year-old store manager was left permanently impaired after a radiologist dismissed signs of a carotid blockage on her MRI, and a D.C. jury awarded $5,774,156 for the malpractice that preceded her stroke.

Superior Court of the District of Columbia (Washington, DC) · 2004Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$3.6 millionVerdict

A premature newborn suffered a permanent chemical burn and stunted growth in her right ankle after an IV line leaked caustic fluid into the surrounding tissue, and a District of Columbia jury awarded her $3.6 million.

Superior Court of the District of Columbia (Washington, DC) · 2018Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$2.5 millionVerdict

A Prince George's County jury found an undercover officer liable for fatally shooting Prince Jones, an unarmed Howard University student stopped in a case of mistaken identity, and awarded his young daughter $2.5 million.

Prince George's County Circuit Court, Maryland · 2006Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$1.4 millionVerdict

Patrick Malone won a $1.4 million wrongful-death verdict against a gynecologist who missed a patient's precancerous condition, then took an appeal that limited how much a nonsettling doctor may deduct for a codefendant's settlement.

District of Columbia (Superior Court; D.C. Court of Appeals) · 1996Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Yale Law School
J.D., 1984
University of Kansas
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Maryland, admitted 1985
State Bar of District of Columbia, admitted 1986
State Bar of Virginia, admitted 1986
Inner Circle of Advocates
International Academy of Trial Lawyers
American Law Institute
Litigation Counsel of America (Senior Fellow)
Belli Society (President 2024-2025)

Awards & recognition

Pulitzer Prize finalist (1980) - 'Dangerous Doctors' investigative series
Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington - Lawyer of the Year (1995)
Frederick Abramson Award, D.C. Bar (1998)
Super Lawyers Top 100 D.C. (2017-present)
The Best Lawyers in America (2006-present)
Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers (2008-2009)
Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Lawyers (2007)
Irish Legal 100 (2009-present)
Belli Society Mel Award (2024)
Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent
Harlan Fiske Stone Prize and Potter Stewart Prize - Yale Law (best moot court)
C. LaRue Munson Prize - Yale Law (legal clinic work)
Yale Law Journal editor

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