Patrick Stickney Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

• Staff attorney with responsibility for reviewing assigned securities and franchise offerings for compliance with investor protection mandates contained in relevant statutes and regulatory guidelines. Drafting comment letters, responding to applicant counsel, and negotiating changes to offering documents, particularly as related to franchises, real estate investment trusts, and business development companies. Assisting with rulemaking and policy issues, such as repeal of agency’s mortgage paper securities rule. • Collaborating with colleagues on federal requests for information, including drafting public comment letter for submission to the Federal Trade Commission. Assisting with public rollout of state-level securities whistleblower legislation.• Continuing enforcement responsibilities for select cases.• Furthering priorities of the Securities Division's national regulatory association, the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) through service as head of the industry working group for the organization's diversity, equity, and inclusion committee and as a member of its ESG (environmental, social, and governance) project group.

Greater Seattle Area

• Investigated and brought enforcement actions for violations of state securities, franchise, and business opportunity laws. Investigated fraud and misrepresentations in private placements, investment adviser conduct, and registered and unregistered franchise sales. • Negotiated with opposing counsel, reviewed and synthesized document production, interviewed witnesses, and took on-the-record testimony. • Used independent judgment to create and implement investigatory plans. Identified information gaps and selected investigatory tools to fill them. Drafted subpoenas, motions, and enforcement orders. • Furthered NASAA priorities through service on board-level diversity, equity, and inclusion committee and commodities and derivatives enforcement project group.

Greater Seattle Area

• Researched and drafted orders and briefs on labor and employment arbitration issues.

State College, Pennsylvania Area

• Researched and wrote about water law issues as an assistant for Professor Lara Fowler. Issues of particular focus were agricultural certainty programs to address water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, stakeholder engagement requirements for permits associated with energy project development, the historical development of Pennsylvania water law, and Pennsylvania’s public trust doctrine.

State College, Pennsylvania Area

• Worked as part of a team under the supervision of Professor Michael Foreman researching and writing briefs filed at the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. • In the Supreme Court, filed an amicus brief in a case about mixed discrimination federal sector claims, an opposition to the Solicitor General’s petition for writ of certiorari to the Third Circuit’s decision in an immigration matter, and a petition for writ of certiorari appealing the Fifth Circuit’s decision regarding damages available in an age discrimination case.• Coordinated other students’ research and writing assignments for the petition for writ of certiorari.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Area

• Drafted, researched, and analyzed legislation on a wide variety of issues, including veterans' mental health and credit security. • Analyzed and summarized litigation relevant to the work of the caucus. •Researched and wrote memos on areas of the law such as employment, the First Amendment, legislative trusts, and interstate taxation.

Olympia, Washington

• Researched and wrote memos on Growth Management Act litigation, habitat conservation planguidelines, stormwater management fees, and SEPA responsibilities. • Reviewed and drafted contracts for the county.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Area

• Researched and drafted memos on immigration issues, due process, contract unconscionability, wage-and-hour claims, disparate impact claims, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act. • Interacted with government agencies to resolve outstanding warrants, on childcare policy, and workforce investment. •Researched workforce investment policy around braided funding to give a state agency a model for providing holistic support services to priority populations in job training programs.

Whatcom County

• Recruited volunteers and supervised field staff for candidate for a successful primary campaign against three opponents. • Composed campaign messages for field and media communications. •Organized fundraising events, created call lists, staffed call time for candidate, and drafted written solicitations to reach the fundraising goals for the primary.

Bellingham, Washington Area

• Worked with colleges and universities in seven states (Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming, Michigan, Kentucky, and Wisconsin) to help register, educate, and engage students to vote in local, state, and federal elections. • Conducted outreach, facilitated coordination, and trained diverse groups of students on best practices for building efficient and effective voter registration and engagement programs.

Bellingham, Washington Area

•Organized parents and alumni to contact the Washington state legislature to prevent further budget cuts to Western Washington University. These efforts facilitated 4605 constituent contacts to legislators and other elected officials during the 2015 legislative session. •Managed community action messages, deepened constituent engagement, and worked with faculty and administration to create effective legislative relations. •Recruited and facilitated university alumni engagement for a joint lobby day with all public comprehensive and research universities in the state.•Planned and implemented a higher education legislative reception for stakeholders in the 2015 legislative session.

Whatcom County

•Recruited volunteers and supervised staff for field campaign in mixed urban/rural district.•Scheduled and staffed call time for candidate; composed and drafted written solicitations.•Utilized campaign database software for targeting and field optimization. •Conducted opposition research. •Drafted, coordinated, and edited campaign messages for field and media communications. . •Maintained campaign calendar and priority meetings schedule.•Engaged in ubiquitous voter outreach/communication.

Bellingham, Washington Area

•Supervisor of station core staff and volunteer (6 staff and 60-100 volunteers per quarter). •Composed quarterly program schedule for community noncommercial radio station based on flow, listener trends, and volunteer DJ interests.•Trained new volunteer DJs on station policies, FCC legal requirements, and on-air broadcasting.•Hired new staff as necessary.

Bellingham, Washington Area

•Supervised and implemented 2012 vote plan which registered more than 15% of the campus population•Organized 800+ student contacts to legislators through emails, phonebanks, lobby visits, and days of action as part of a statewide effort which resulted in a 12% funding increase to higher education and the first tuition freeze in more than two decades.•Coordinating campus stakeholders around higher education issues (faculty, staff, administration, etc). •Policy advocacy and research, including lobbying the Washington congressional delegation and staff on student loan policy. •Relations with local governments and community organizations with an emphasis on rental housing regulation and transportation.•Governmental affairs and co-manager (with six other individuals) of an organization with a 2.4 million dollar budget, 200 paid employees, and representing 15,000 students.•Supervisor of eight-person staff, including the organization liaison in the state capitol during legislative session.•Advised higher education advocacy group on student mobilization plan.

Bellingham, Washington Area

•Grant-writing for program funding•Development of voter registration and engagement plan for the 2012 election which resulted in registration of more than 15% of the campus population, the most that year on any campus in Washington state.•Strategic creation of new personnel to implement vote plan.•Facilitated skills sessions at grassroots organizing trainings

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Woolsack Honor Society; Civil Rights Appellate Clinic; American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Interdisciplinary Studies (Law, Diversity, And Justice) & Political Science

Activities and Societies: Western Votes, Legislative Affairs Council