PRACTICES
Business and Commercial LitigationConstruction Law
Civil Litigation, Negligence, and Tort Liability
EDUCATION
Texas Tech University School of Law, JD with honors 1977Champion Moot Court Competition 1976
Member, Texas Tech Law Review 1976-77
Lead Articles Editor, Texas Tech Law Review 1977
University of Texas at Austin, BA, English, 1975
ADMISSIONS
State Bar of Texas, 1978U.S. District Courts, Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
Board Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law, 1988 by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Board certification renewed annually.
Member College of the State Bar, most recent renewal 2025—2026
Rodney M. Patterson
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Rodney M. Patterson’s current trial practice concentrates in insurance defense and construction litigation. His experience includes the representation of clients, both plaintiff and defendant, in a broad spectrum of tort and contract litigation. Rodney is board certified in personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, a career milestone which harkens back to his early days in medical malpractice defense. Rodney has successfully represented health care providers before Texas Courts of Appeal and the Texas Supreme Court.
Rodney has also represented clients in insurance coverage disputes, as well as residential and commercial construction matters. Rodney says that if he were asked to indicate a preference for some particular genre of litigation, it would have to be the subset of construction law that involves personal injury claims on the jobsite. These cases are often complex and massive, and pose special challenges that require the defense lawyer to use skills learned long ago while at the same time developing new experience in emerging fields of construction practice. Rodney provides services as a lecturer at seminars and has taught accredited courses as an adjunct professor for Texas Wesleyan School of Law.
Speaker, Great Openers: The Art of Writing a Persuasive Essay, presented on behalf of the Optimist Club of Fort Worth (January 2017).
Speaker & Author, An Irreverent Look at Written Discovery in Texas, presented to Texas
Advanced Paralegal Seminar (October 2011).
Speaker, An Irreverent Look at Oil and Gas Leases, Community Event for the Greater Parker County Area (2008).
Speaker, An Irreverent Look at Daubert, Seminar sponsored by the American Academy of Disability Evaluator Physicians (Palm Springs, California, March 2005, and Fort Worth, Texas, March 2004).
Speaker & Author, Whose Friend is HIPAA?, Seminar sponsored by Lorman Education Group, Confidentiality of Health Records in Texas (November 2004 and November 2005).
Speaker & Author, An Irreverent Look at HIPAA, University of North Texas Higher Education Law Conference (March 2004).
Speaker & Author, An Irreverent Look at Life Care Planners, Medical Malpractice Conference sponsored by Texas Tech University School of Law and St. Mary’s University School of Law (November 2001).
Speaker & Author, An Irreverent Look at Tort Reform, Texas Health Law Conference (1995).
Speaker & Author, Defending Damages, State Bar of Texas Seminar on Advanced DTPA, Insurance and Consumer Law Course (May 1993).
Speaker & Author, Computer Support for Health Law Litigators, Medical Malpractice Conference
sponsored by Texas Tech University School of Law and St. Mary's University School of Law (April
1992).
Speaker & Author, Jury Persuasion, State Bar of Texas Seminar on Trial and Tactics
(April 1991).
Rodney has also represented clients in insurance coverage disputes, as well as residential and commercial construction matters. Rodney says that if he were asked to indicate a preference for some particular genre of litigation, it would have to be the subset of construction law that involves personal injury claims on the jobsite. These cases are often complex and massive, and pose special challenges that require the defense lawyer to use skills learned long ago while at the same time developing new experience in emerging fields of construction practice. Rodney provides services as a lecturer at seminars and has taught accredited courses as an adjunct professor for Texas Wesleyan School of Law.
RECOGNITION
Selected Publications and PresentationsSpeaker, Great Openers: The Art of Writing a Persuasive Essay, presented on behalf of the Optimist Club of Fort Worth (January 2017).
Speaker & Author, An Irreverent Look at Written Discovery in Texas, presented to Texas
Advanced Paralegal Seminar (October 2011).
Speaker, An Irreverent Look at Oil and Gas Leases, Community Event for the Greater Parker County Area (2008).
Speaker, An Irreverent Look at Daubert, Seminar sponsored by the American Academy of Disability Evaluator Physicians (Palm Springs, California, March 2005, and Fort Worth, Texas, March 2004).
Speaker & Author, Whose Friend is HIPAA?, Seminar sponsored by Lorman Education Group, Confidentiality of Health Records in Texas (November 2004 and November 2005).
Speaker & Author, An Irreverent Look at HIPAA, University of North Texas Higher Education Law Conference (March 2004).
Speaker & Author, An Irreverent Look at Life Care Planners, Medical Malpractice Conference sponsored by Texas Tech University School of Law and St. Mary’s University School of Law (November 2001).
Speaker & Author, An Irreverent Look at Tort Reform, Texas Health Law Conference (1995).
Speaker & Author, Defending Damages, State Bar of Texas Seminar on Advanced DTPA, Insurance and Consumer Law Course (May 1993).
Speaker & Author, Computer Support for Health Law Litigators, Medical Malpractice Conference
sponsored by Texas Tech University School of Law and St. Mary's University School of Law (April
1992).
Speaker & Author, Jury Persuasion, State Bar of Texas Seminar on Trial and Tactics
(April 1991).