About H. Patrick Weir Jr.
Pat Weir is a senior partner and leads the Vogel Law Firm’s wrongful death and personal injury practice groups. Since 1990, Pat has represented only those individuals and families who have suffered serious or fatal injuries because of another’s conduct. During his career, Pat has secured millions of dollars in verdicts and out-of-court settlements for his clients’ personal injury, wrongful death, and product liability claims. While Pat practices primarily in North Dakota and Minnesota, he has also represented clients and prosecuted cases throughout the Unites States including South Dakota, Montana, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Arizona, Florida, and North Carolina.
Pat received his undergraduate degree in 1985 from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, and is a 1989 graduate of the University of Denver , College of Law. He is also a past adjunct professor of litigation at Minnesota State University, Moorhead, Minnesota. He and his wife have four grown children, and he enjoys spending time with his family and grandchildren, playing hockey, downhill skiing, reading, and golfing.
Proven verdicts and settlements
The parents of an eight-year-old boy killed in a November 1995 crash in West Fargo, North Dakota, sued the driver, his father and a second driver alleged to have been racing him. The driver admitted liability, and the jury awarded the parents $810,457.96 against him and found the second driver not negligent. The trial court refused to subtract the family's pretrial settlement with the father from the award, and the North Dakota Supreme Court affirmed in 1999.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.