Patrick J. Doran

Patrick helps businesses avoid, manage and resolve legal disputes, with a particular emphasis on labor and employment issues.

A partner in our Labor & Employment department, Patrick has represented management clients throughout the country in connection with traditional labor matters including union organizing campaigns, collective bargaining negotiations, unfair labor practice charges and grievance arbitrations. Patrick regularly drafts and reviews employment agreements and various employment policies and manuals, and provides daily support to human resources professionals. He has extensive experience counseling clients regarding compliance with, and litigating disputes involving, federal and state labor and employment laws, including discrimination and civil rights laws, wage and hour laws, the Family and Medical Leave Act and disability laws. Patrick also has litigated numerous restrictive covenant and trade secret disputes involving clients’ former employees and competitors.

Patrick also is a member of our Commercial Litigation group. He has handled a wide variety of complex commercial litigation matters involving antitrust laws, RICO, defense of corporate officers and directors, derivative claims, and shareholder, real estate, franchise, construction and securities disputes. Patrick has successfully represented clients at all stages of such matters, including through jury trials and appeals. He routinely appears before state and federal courts, administrative agencies and arbitrators throughout the United States.

Patrick has worked with clients in various industries in his decades of practice. In particular, Patrick has represented clients in the transportation, food processing and energy industries (including coal, steel and electric), and notable public sector clients such as the Philadelphia Parking Authority, the Pennsylvania Convention Center and the Board of Directors of City Trusts for the City of Philadelphia.

Through his representation of the Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association and the Pennsylvania Horsemen’s Benevolent Protective Association, which represent, respectively, the owners, trainers and jockeys at Parx Racing in Bensalem, and Penn National in Harrisburg, Patrick has developed a broad experience dealing with matters of equine law and gaming. In particular, Patrick has worked closely with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and Racing Commission on matters relating to the regulation of the use of medications in race horses.