The Patterson Law Firm, LLC

Managing Member: Michael Haeberle

Members: Thomas E. Patterson (founder), Kristi Browne and David Sanders

The Business Lawyers to Call in a Crisis

The Patterson Law Firm, LLC is dedicated to helping businesses, professionals and entrepreneurs properly handle business lawsuits while facilitating effective business practices. With our top four lawyers having more than 123 years of combined trial experience, we protect your rights and your business interests.

The American Bar Association published our book on emergency business litigation in 2009. In addition to preparing and trying business lawsuits, our firm mediates and arbitrates business disputes, provides counsel on how to avoid lawsuits and educates other lawyers about preliminary injunctions. We keep practitioners and businesses current with our blog emergencybusinesslitigation.com.

It is our mission to provide effective, efficient and ethical representation for clients to win business lawsuits through research, persuasive writing, creative investigation, professionalism and integrity. We work with businesses of all sizes and are committed to fostering a sound attorney/client relationship founded on mutual honesty, trust and teamwork.

Our main competitive advantage has always been our people. The lawyers that comprise our firm have unique backgrounds and unparalleled qualifications to achieve the best business results for clients.

• Noncompete Agreements
• Banking, Loan Agreements and Guaranty Contracts
• Breach of Contract

1. Breach of Contract Remedies

• Commercial Litigation

1. Business to Business Fraud
2. Emergency Business Litigation
3. Financial Malpractice
4. Preventing Business Lawsuits
5. Winning Business Lawsuits

• Commercial Real Estate Litigation

1. Attorney Fees in Commercial Leases
2. Common Area Maintenance Changes
3. Common Commercial Landlord Breaches
4. Default Interest
5. Emergency Remedies
6. Fraud
7. Holdover
8. Insurance and Indemnity
9. Mitigation
10. Writing Required

• Construction Disputes
• Cryptocurrency Litigation

1. Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Litigation and Arbitration
2. Account Freezes/KYC Issues
3. Company Founder Disputes
4. Exchange Disputes
5. SAFT Disputes
6. Theft

• Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice
• Employment, Commission and Brokerage Claims
• ERISA Cases
• Insurance Coverage and Contractual Indemnity

1. Common Property and Business Owner Insurance Policy Exclusions
2. Making a Claim for Damage to Your Business
3. Types of Business Insurance

• Intellectual Property/Technology
• Legal Malpractice

1. Expert Witness Services
2. IARDC Defense

• Personal Injury

1. Medical Malpractice

• Sales of Goods
• Shareholder, Partnership, and LLC-member Disputes (Business Divorces)

1. Access to books and records for shareholders and LLC members
2. Arbitration
3. Bylaws for corporations
4. Buyouts of corporation shareholders and LLC members
5. Corporate governance
6. Deadlock of directors, managers, shareholders or members of a corporation or LLC
7. Derivative actions for corporations or LLC's
8. Dissolution of a Corporation
9. Dissociation from an LLC
10. Experts in shareholder, partnership and LLC member disputes
11. Failure of corporate purpose
12. Fair market value or fair value
13. Fiduciary duties
14. Fraud
15. Freeze-outs and squeeze outs in corporations and LLC's
16. Illinois Business Corporation Act
17. Illinois Limited Liability Company Act
18. Illinois Partnership Act
19. Indemnification
20. Injunctions
21. LLC Operating Agreements
22. Mediation
23. Oppression Under the Business Corporation Act
24. Receivers in Shareholder and LLC Member Disputes
25. Remedies in Shareholder and LLC Member Disputes
26. Remedies in Partnership, LLC, and Corporate Disputes
27. Shareholder Access to Books and Records
28. Shareholder agreements
29. Waste

• Trademark Infringement
• Trading and Financial Malpractice
• Unfair Competition

Patterson Law Firm's main office is based in Chicago, Illinois, but the managing member also holds an office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at 1437 North Prospect Ave, Suite 203, Milwaukee, WI 53202.