Patrick Eckerd Email & Phone Number

I am a recently sworn-in attorney in the State of North Carolina and currently reside in Asheville. Most recently, I worked as an attorney at Fisher Stark, P.A. in Asheville where I gained experience in case management, discovery review, legal drafting, and research in the areas of personal injury, utilities, and property/eminent domain. I previously worked temporarily as a legal researcher conducting analysis of state law surrounding financial transactions and products in collaboration with attorneys from Moore & Van Allen, PLLC in Charlotte. I earned my JD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2021. While at Pitt Law I worked as a legal intern at LegalSifter, Inc., a start-up that provides AI-powered contract review software, and helped to develop and test the product's features and functionality. This involved close analysis of contractual language and structure in order to quality-check the output of LegalSifter's algorithms. Additionally, I wrote and published news articles on various legal topics for the school's legal news website, JURIST, which can be read at https://www.jurist.org/news/author/peckerd/.