R. Patrick "Pat" Vance - Lawyer in New Orleans, LA

Pat Vance is a partner in and leader of the Litigation PracticeGroup. He focuses on business litigation, debtors' and creditors rightslitigation, and business bankruptcy. Pat has the distinction of being one ofthe few lawyers who is both a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyersand a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He is also a life member ofthe American Law Institute and a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference. Asa trial attorney, Pat has handled more than 300 commercial disputes in a widevariety of practice areas, including antitrust, Racketeer Influenced andCorrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, copyright infringement, Lanham Act,securities litigation, class action defense, foreclosures, fraud, lender liability,banking litigation, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, dealer-distributordisputes, successions, director and officer of liability, legalmalpractice, expropriation, contract interpretation, partnership, utilityregulation, tax, and general commercial disputes. He has more than 170 reporteddecisions. Pat regularly represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors inall types of business bankruptcy cases. He has been retained by scores ofbanks, telecommunications companies, international manufacturers, utilities,healthcare providers, maritime, oil and gas-related industries, the musicindustry, casinos, and insurance companies. He has also represented andserved as a trustee and counsel to creditors' committees in numerous cases. As trusteeand as attorney for debtors and trustees, Pat has represented real estatedevelopers, hotels, casinos, partnerships, construction companies, health spas,maritime clients, oil and gas-related industries, a tree farm, a gravel pit,and the largest alligator farm in North America. He led the representation of aNew Orleans-based utility company in a post-Hurricane Katrina Chapter 11 case.