Patrick Hely Email & Phone Number

West Palm Beach, Florida Area

Patrick helps clients from around the world protect their intellectual property in 28 Caribbean jurisdictions (the Commonwealth- and Dutch-Caribbean jurisdictions as well as Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands). He focuses on coordinating across a diverse set of jurisdictions to provide his clients with efficient and cost-effective solutions for an entire region.

Paducah, Ky

Patrick served as a term law clerk to Hon. Lanny King, United States Magistrate Judge. He gained significant experience related to civil discovery, mediation, and civil procedure. He had exposure to the inner workings of the federal trial courts and gained valuable insight into how judges think and work.

West Palm Beach, Florida

Patrick's practice with Mrachek Law focused on commercial litigation and included pleadings, motion practice, discovery (including taking and defending depositions), third-party practice and intervention, motions to dismiss and for summary judgment, evidentiary hearings, negotiation and settlement of cases, and appeals. Patrick also completed work on a number of post-judgment matters, including domesticating foreign judgments (both of sister states and foreign nations), conducting post-judgment discovery, litigating exemptions to enforcement, instructing sheriffs on levy, writs of garnishment, and proceedings supplementary, including impleading new parties. Legal research and writing, both for internal and external audiences, served as a core component of Patrick's work. The subject matter of his work included questions of personal and subject-matter jurisdiction; venue; temporary injunctions; declaratory judgments; evidence; breaches of contract, oral and written; business torts; guarantees and indemnity; constitutional challenges to municipal corporations' actions; real property matters, including foreclosure, partition, breach of lease, and premises liability; intellectual property and know how; estates litigation; bankruptcy and receivership; UCC sales, negotiable instruments, and secured transactions; and fraud, conversion, and theft.

Stuart, Fl

Patrick practiced criminal defense law while sponsored by the Vanderbilt Public Service Initiative. He represented clients charged with the full breadth of misdemeanors in the County Court in and for Martin County, Florida. His experience included trying one case to a jury verdict acquitting his client.

Paducah, Ky

Patrick completed legal research and drafting tasks to support the firm's attorneys in a variety of legal matters, including issues related to intellectual property, federal jurisdiction, preclusion, choice of law, damages and equitable remedies, estate taxation, probate, and sovereign immunity.

London, Ky

Patrick wrote bench and issue memoranda and provided legal research to assist Judge Siler in a variety of appeals heard by the Fourth, Sixth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits. His work included issues of evidence, sentencing, Fourth Amendment search, malicious prosecution, wrongful death, preemption, tax crimes, and insurance bad faith.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Patrick designed, administered, and analyzed the results of quantitative surveys related to sales management effectiveness and then communicated the results and analysis to clients.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Patrick created original, qualitative best-practices research for clients.

Doctor Of Jurisprudence (J.D.)

Activities and Societies: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Moot Court Board, Phi Delta Phi, Vanderbilt Bar Association Board.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics (With Departmental Honors), Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Habitat for Humanity, The Vanderbilt Hustler, Gamma Beta Phi, Omicron Delta Epsilon