18383 Preston Road, Suite 300
Dallas, Texas 75252
T 214-390-7702
F 214-989-4147
Blog: Texas Trade Secrets
18383 Preston Road, Suite 300
Dallas, Texas 75252
T 214-390-7702
F 214-989-4147
Blog: Texas Trade Secrets
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“I started my career as a trial lawyer because it presents the opportunity to combine creativity and hard work to persuasively present a client’s story. Along the way, I learned that I am as interested in business as I am interested in law. This is why I represent clients both in court and in non-litigation matters involving business law. My work fulfills me when I am a business partner.
This firm’s purpose is to make clients happy they chose us. We try to do so in each representation by striving to achieve our clients’ business goals; giving clear and honest advice; and by melding hard work with an innovator’s spirit inside and outside of the courtroom.”
— Patrick Keating
Patrick Keating provides frequent advice to clients on matters of business law, corporate governance and contract preparation. For example, as general corporate counsel for Firm clients, Patrick advises boards of directors and corporate officers about business transactions, contracts, corporate restructuring, best practices and how to avoid litigation.
Once litigation erupts, Patrick draws upon his more than twenty-five years of experience in the courtroom to advance his clients’ interests as lead trial counsel. Clients also retain Patrick to advise them about cases in which they are represented by other law firms (for example, when the clients’ insurer or indemnitor had the right to select trial counsel or where a client has a large docket of litigation). In these situations, Patrick provides litigation management services by advising clients about litigation strategy and methods for reducing the cost of the litigation; and Patrick reduces the time his clients’ representatives must dedicate to lawsuits by serving as clients’ main point of contact with trial counsel.
Patrick focuses his litigation practice on (1) commercial litigation (for example, theft of trade secrets, breach of contract, and business tort cases) and (2) lawsuits between co-owners of businesses (typically breach of fiduciary duty cases).
For the first two decades of Patrick’s legal practice, he worked at and became a partner at one of the largest law firms in Texas — an international law firm with offices in fourteen cities.
The following few examples illustrate Patrick’s experience:
Education and Court Admissions
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
All United States District Courts in Texas
State Bar of Texas
J.D., University of Texas at Austin School of Law, 1995, with honors; Articles Editor, Texas Law Review, Volume 73
B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1991, cum laude
Honors and Awards
Recognized as a “Texas Super Lawyer” by Thomson Reuters (2005, 2020 – 2024)
Recognized in Best Lawyers in America for Commercial Litigation (2015-24 editions) by Woodward White, Inc.
Professional and Community
Board of Directors, CASA of Collin County, Texas (2014 – 2022)
Chair of Board of Directors, CASA of Collin County, Texas (2019 – 2020)
Barrister, Patrick Higginbotham Inn of Court (2006-2009)