Overview
Patrick Hill represents businesses across various industries in high-stakes litigation in state and federal courts. He has experience with banking, technology, health care, antitrust, trade secret, employment and general commercial matters. Patrick routinely helps clients defend complex class actions and multidistrict litigation.
Patrick also maintains an active pro bono practice representing clients in a variety of matters, including appeals and landlord-tenant disputes.
Before joining Robinson Bradshaw, Patrick was an attorney with Alston & Bird LLP in Atlanta.
Experience
- Represents a technology company in a putative class action alleging negligent development of software licensed for government services.
- Represents major financial services institutions in multidistrict putative class actions alleging assistance of financial fraud.
- Represented a major college sports conference in multidistrict putative class actions filed by former student-athletes challenging NCAA rules.
- Represented and advised a private equity firm in litigation arising from commercial lease disputes.
- Represented a national retailer in multidistrict litigation involving class and collective claims alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the state labor laws of 19 different states.
- Represented and advised a major Carolinas health care system in defense and resolution of various commercial and breach of contract disputes.
- Served as appellate counsel to a real estate developer in litigation concerning alleged breach of contract in North Carolina state courts.
- Served as appellate counsel to amicus curiae in a matter before the North Carolina Supreme Court concerning state funding for public education.
- Advised public health care systems in North Carolina and Georgia regarding obligations under state public records laws.
- Obtained appellate ruling preserving summary judgment in favor of a hospital in employment litigation before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Accolades
Honors & Recognitions
- The Best Lawyers in America, One to Watch, mass tort litigation/class actions - defendants, 2023-26; commercial litigation, 2025-26
- North Carolina Super Lawyers, Rising Star, class action, 2023; business litigation, 2024-25
- North Carolina Pro Bono Honor Society, 2023
- Mecklenburg Access to Justice Pro Bono Partners Program, Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2023
Affiliations
Community Affiliations
- Leadership Charlotte, Class 45
- Myers Park Presbyterian Church, Deacon
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Education
Emory University, J.D., with high honors, 2015; Order of the Coif; Notes and Comments Editor, Emory Law Journal; Davis Award for Writing Excellence, 2014
Vanderbilt University, B.A., 2010
Bar Admissions
- North Carolina
- Georgia
Clerkships
- Law Clerk, The Honorable Frank M. Hull, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 2016-17
- Law Clerk, The Honorable W. Keith Watkins, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama, 2015-16