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Patrick Maley

Patrick Maley, Ph.D., is an associate in the firm’s Mass Tort and Product Liability practice group. Prior to joining the firm, Patrick served as a law clerk for the Honorable Michael Noriega at the Supreme Court of New Jersey where he wrote bench memoranda, researched petitions for certification, and prepared Justice Noriega for arguments and conferences. He was also a former summer associate at K&L Gates where he assisted with matters in corporate litigation, bankruptcy, and several civil rights pro bono cases.

During law school, Patrick served as a judicial intern for The Honorable Patty Shwartz at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, where he reviewed rehearing petitions, edited chambers writing, and researched various legal issues. He also interned for The Honorable Barry T. Albin at the Supreme Court of New Jersey, where he reviewed certification petitions, edited opinions, and researched constitutional takings and civil rights. At Seton Hall Law, Patrick also served as Senior Articles Editor of the Seton Hall Law Review and a student attorney in the Impact Litigation Clinic, where he helped write a brief that was argued in front of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Prior to law school, Patrick was a professor of English at a university in New Jersey where he taught courses such as Shakespeare, Classical Literature, The Bible as Literature, and Ethnic American Literature. Patrick’s scholarship, focusing on the modern and contemporary drama of the United States and Ireland, appears in a variety of academic journals as well as in his book, After August: Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama, published by the University of Virginia Press in 2019.

  • ”Wardlow After Black Lives Matter: Using a Protest Movement to Establish a Colorable Equal Protection Challenge to Supreme Court Precedent,” Seton Hall Law Review, Volume 54, Issue 5 (2024)
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