Pat Lundvall

Practice Areas

Commercial & Complex Litigation

Employment & Labor Law

Appellate

Career

Pat Lundvall is a highly skilled litigator and Chair of McDonald Carano’s Commercial & Complex Litigation Practice. Since 2001, Pat has been Board Certified in Civil Trial Law and Civil Practice Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (which awarded her a President’s Award in 2023) and is also Board Certified as a Civil Trial Advocacy Specialist by the State Bar of Nevada (the first attorney certified in the State).

Pat’s clients include local, state, national and international businesses of all sizes operating in nearly every sector of Nevada’s economy. She represents them as their primary outside counsel in every phase of complex commercial litigation. Pat also serves as Nevada counsel in complex multiparty and multidistrict litigation, and out-of-state law firms regularly select Pat to represent their clients when suit is necessary in Nevada.

Pat has successfully represented clients in judge and jury trials in state and federal courts, as well as on appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. She is particularly experienced in handling complex business disputes involving business entity disputes and dissolutions, healthcare, fraud including government fraud, unfair trade practices, unfair competition, RICO and antitrust violations, among others. Pat also handles matters involving employment law, defamation, deprivation of constitutional rights, and wrongful death.

Pat also dedicates time and expertise to pro bono work, including cases through the Office of Military Legal Assistance under the Attorney General’s Office, which is a pro bono service program that McDonald Carano helped create.

Awards and Recognition

Martindale-Hubbell – AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating (since 2001)

Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business – Band 1 in Commercial Litigation (2011-2024)

The Best Lawyers in America – Commercial Litigation (2006-2024), Labor and Employment Litigation (2011-2024), Appellate (2023, 2024)

Business Today – “Top 10 Remarkable Nevada Commercial Litigation Lawyers to Watch” (2023)

National Board of Trial Advocacy – President’s Award (2023)

Nevada Business Magazine – “Women to Watch” (2023)

Profiles in Diversity Journal – “Women Worth Watching in Leadership” (2023)

Vegas Inc – “Top Lawyers” in Appellate (2024) and Business Litigation (2024, 2023)

Real Las Vegas – “Leading Lawyers of Las Vegas” (2021-2024)

Vegas Inc – “Women Inspiring Nevada” award (2022)

Mountain States Super Lawyers – “Super Lawyers” (2007-2024)

Mountain States Super Lawyers – “Top 50 Women Lawyers” (2010-2024)

Mountain States Super Lawyers – “Top 100 Lawyers” (2022-2024)

Top Verdicts & Settlements of the West “Top 25 Verdicts 2021” – #1 largest in Nevada, #1 largest in Contract Law in the 13-state West region, and #9 largest in all areas of law in the 13-state West region, (Fremont Emergency Services (Mandavia), et al. vs. UnitedHealth Group, Inc. et al., Dec. 7, 2021)

Vegas Magazine – “Vegas Gives Honoree” (2019)

Nevada Business Magazine – “Top Rank Attorneys” (2009, 2011, 2015, 2017)

“Distinguished Nevadan” Award presented by Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents (2012)

“New Thinking About Thinking” Award from Keep Memory Alive/The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (2011)

Professional Memberships

Senior Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America

Co-Founder and Advisory Board member, Complex Commercial Litigation Institute

Member, Southern Nevada Association of Women Attorneys

Nevada Fellow, American Bar Foundation

Publications

Presenter, “Litigation v. Arbitration: What to Choose and Why,” Litigation Counsel of America, Spring Retreat, April 17-19, 2024

Leadership Q&A, “How I made Practice Group Chair,” Law.com, March 22, 2024

Feature Interview, “Legal Goddess Leads the Way in Commercial Litigation at Every Judicial Level, Including the High Bench,” Of Counsel, November 2023

Scheduled Presenter, Women In Law Series – Appellate Law, Southern Nevada Association of Women Attorneys, August 3, 2023

Quoted, “Lawyers Must Navigate Client Privacy Before Suits See Public Eye,” Bloomberg Law, June 2, 2022

Presenter, Nevada Supreme Court Roundup, Association of Corporate Counsel, May 25, 2022

Quoted, “‘This is Not a Criminal Trial,’ Ford’s Lawyer Tells Judiciary Republicans,” National Law Journal, September 25, 2018

Quoted, “How Companies Can Avoid Pitfalls of a Bad Sexual Harassment Policy,” Corporate Counsel, November 22, 2017

Quoted, “Lawyers as HR Leaders? The Jury’s Still Out,” Bloomberg BNA – Human Resources Report, July 10, 2017

Quoted, “Avoiding a Business Foul: Practical Steps to Dodge Business Litigation,” Nevada Business Magazine, March 1, 2017

Feature Interview, “Gender Blindness: Meet Pat Lundvall,” My Vegas magazine, January 1, 2017

Personal

Board Member, Secretary, Friends of the Nevada Mansion (current)

Board Member, Nevada Military Support Alliance (since its founding in 2003)