September 20th, 2024
Job Shadow with Patrick Dungan at Adams and Reese LLP
His current practice focuses on municipal law, utilities law, government relations, economic development, land use, education law, and government litigation. Patrick Dungan has wide-ranging experience in government law, business litigation, general civil litigation, economic development, business transactions, education law, real property disputes, bond financing, premises liability, transportation, and tax matters. He has represented multiple municipalities, planning commissions, and utility boards and provided legal counsel to multiple Fortune 500 companies as well as many regional and local companies. He provides day-to-day operational advice to municipal governments throughout south Alabama, and he works with clients to promote economic development and provide incentives for business development.
Mr.Dungan clerked for the Honorable Roderick P. Stout, 13th Judicial Circuit of Mobile, working on all matters related to the Judge’s civil docket. While in law school, he served as Peer Review Editor on the ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal. He studied Anthropology and Sociology at the University of South Alabama, earning a B.A. degree in 2006. He then went to the University of South Carolina School of Law.
Throughout the day, I was able to interview Mr. Dungan, meet his coworkers, and learn about his day-to-day. Some questions I asked included: What was the most interesting case you have had?
This question could be taken as “What happened in the case” or What were the circumstances surrounding it; Mr. Dungan took the second option. His most interesting case was a Federal election law case during a hurricane. To make matters worse, it was during COVID on Zoom when everyone on this Zoom meeting had to sit in suspense relying on the internet and generators to stay up.
Because Mr.Patrick did not grow up in a family of lawyers or truly knew anyone in the law field, he struggled most with picking up the “lingo” in law school or learning how to “think like a lawyer”. Nevertheless, he owes his success to Jay Ross who he says brought him in and became his mentor.
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