Pat is a cum laude graduate from the State University of New York, College at Geneseo where he was an Army ROTC scholarship recipient.  He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Air Defense Artillery and served four years on active duty, achieving the rank of Captain.  He received his law degree from  the Wake Forest University School of Law in 2004 where he served as treasurer for the Wake Forest Law School Civil Liberties Union.  Pat comes from a strong union background and is passionate about the rights of Maine's working men and women.  This, coupled with his military experience, led him to concentrate his practice on workers' compensation, employment and veterans' disability law.  He lives with his family in Scarborough.