Honors and Awards:

• An award issued by the editorial board of the Catholic Univeristy Law Review for the best published Note of the year., Award for the Best Catholic University Law Review Note of 1995
• American Jurisprudence Award for Contract Law
• Magna Cum Laude Graduate, Catholic University, Columbus School of Law, 1996
• An award issued to recognize leaders in the legal field., Who's Who in American Law, Sutton's Who's Who, 2012

Special Licenses/Certifications:

• Board Certified Civil Trial Attorney by the National Board for Trial Advocacy, 2009
• Board Certfied as a Civil Pretrial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy., 2012

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Member, Maryland Association of Justice
• Member, Prince Georges County Bar Association
• Member, Maryland Bar, 1996
• Member, U.S. District Court District of Maryland Bar, 2004
• Member, District of Columbia Bar, 2005
• Fellow of the Maryland Bar Foundation, 2009

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Note, Does the Commerce Clause Value Public Goods, 44 Cath. U. Law Rev. 3, 1995
• Lectured to an insurance company about discovery methods to uncover information about healthcare providers in personal injury cases., Lecturer, Investigating and Deposing Personal Injury Healthcare Providers, Allstate Insurance Company, 2000

Verdicts and Settlements:

• A client fell on a single step in a parking garage that was not marked with a contrasting color. The client sustained foot, ankle and wrist injuries that required surgery. An arbitrator awarded the client $200,000. The client had incurred medical bills of over $50,000., 2005
• While driving on an industrial road at night, Mr. Patterson's client ran into a pile of dirt that had been left by a landscaper for a construction project. The pile of dirt extended beyond street parking and into the travel lane. The landscaper failed to mark the dirt pile with traffic cones. As a result of running into the pile of dirt the client required a minor shoulder surgery. She incurred over $11,000 of medicals and obtained a $40,000 settlement., 2005
• In 2005 a settlement of $75,000 from a hotel after the client checked into the Hotel and was awoken by an intruder who was looking through the client's wallet. The client successfully fought the intruder and left copious amounts of the intruder's DNA in the hotel room. While fighting the intruder the client sustained minor injuries to his knuckles that did not require treatment. An investigation revealed that the intruder was hired by the hotel and given a master pass key despite having several felony convictions., 2005
• A wrongful death case resolved for $500,000 policy limits of an uninsured policy that had stated limits of $20,000. The recovery greatly exceeded the stated policy limits because the insurer had failed to obtain a signed waiver required for uninsured limits to be lower than the bodily injury coverage available on the policy., 2006
• A verdict of $17,982.20 for a client who suffered soft tissue injuries to her neck and back in a low property damage car accident. The insurance company had offered $181.50 before suit was filed because they questioned whether someone could be injured in a little to no property damage accident., 2007
• An arbitration award of over $425,000 for a client that sustained a herniated disc in his low back that required surgery from a car accident that occurred in Anne Arundel County. The client had incurred medical bills of just over $26,000 but was unable to work as a bridge welder following the surgery., 2007
• A combined settlement of $150,000 for the passenger of a car driven by an intoxicated driver who drove into the side of a tractor trailer that was illegally parked on the highway. The driver of the car only had $50,000 of insurance and a settlement was reached for an additional $100,000 from the trucking company., 2007
• A settlement of over $575,000 for a client that sustained Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) to his hands and arms following a motor vehicle accident. The client had incurred less than $20,000 of medical bills and was unable to continue working as a truck driver., 2007
• Resolved a fall case for $140,000. The client fell at a grocery store and broke her knee cap. The Client had medical bills of approximately $14,000. There was no offer prior to filing suit., 2008
• George Patterson obtained a $310,000 settlement on behalf of client who sustained a neck injury requiring surgery. The settlement was obtained after the defendant retained a medical expert to argue that the neck surgery was due to a pre-existing condition., 2008
• George Patterson obtained a $75,000 settlement for an elderly gentleman that suffered a scalp laseration in a car accident.  The client tried to settle the case on his own but sought counsel after receiving a final offer of $25,000., 2009
• Mr. Patterson represented a lady from Waldorf who was involved in a lane change accident with a tractor trailer on the beltway in Prince George's County, near the exit for Landover, road. Each driver involved in the accident accused the other of making an unsafe lane change. One independent witness indicated that he never saw the truck leave its lane before the accident. Mr. Patterson through his investigator(s) was able to identify another witness from a photograph taken at the scene who observed the truck changing lanes and striking the car. By tracking down this witness, Mr. Patterson was able to recover $55,000 on behalf of his client in a case where liability was denied by the trucking company., 2010
• In 2010, George Patterson, recovered all available insurance totaling over $995,000 for the wrongful death of a Lothian woman in Anne Arundel County. She was stopped in her car waiting to turn left when a heavy duty tow truck struck her from behind in Anne Arundel County near Deale, Maryland., 2010
• Mr. Patterson represented the family of a lady that was killed in a car accident involving a commercial vehicle.  He was able to recover $997,500 representing the remaining insurance coverage from a One Million Dollar single limits liability policy. , 2010
• On February 16, 2011, George Patterson obtained a judgment for $1,576,747.00 in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County located in Rockville, Maryland. The award represented the maximum amount allowed by law for non-economic damages plus the complete medical bills for the survivor of a severe head-on collision. The client sustained fractures to his leg, pelvis, neck, back and elbow. The client, a resident of Damascus, Maryland battled severe infections from the surgical wounds to repair his badly fractured leg. The antibiotics he was given resulted in a Clostridium difficile (C-diff) infection of his colon that necessitated the removal of his large intestine. Mr. Patterson also recovered $150,000 for the passenger that had less than $8,000 in medical bills. The unusually high award was based on the pre-impact fright of the passenger plus being trapped upside down in a van next to her critically injured husband for over 30 minutes., 2011
• Mr. Patterson settled a claim against the federal government for $525,000 for an independent contractor that was injured when a vehicle barrier was accidentally raised as he drove into a facility., 2012

Transactions:

• Assisted 2 dentists in the purchase of a successful dental practice in the Washington area. 

Representative Clients:

• ValuTeachers

Other Outstanding Achievements:

• "Superb" rating by AVVO an attorney rating service., 2009

Video:

• Sasscer, Clagett & Bucher (SCB) is the oldest law firm in Prince George's County, Maryland. In the years since our practice was established in 1920, the county has grown in population and complexity. We have responded to the needs of the community and the changing legal environment, extending the scope of our practice and the level of sophistication of our representation. Our areas of practice, with a heavy emphasis on litigation, include insurance defense, commercial litigation, personal injury law, criminal law, and family law. Our firm serves clients throughout Southern Maryland.Our attorneys appear in civil and criminal trial courts throughout the area, and in the Maryland Court of Appeals and Maryland Court of Special Appeals. They include several former prosecutors, a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Eight of the attorneys are AV-rated under Martindale Hubbells Peer Review Rating™ process*. Our firm has handled thousands of trials. Whether helping a client with a personal injury claim stemming from an auto accident, or negotiating division of marital property during divorce, we provide our client with the benefit of the attorneys' exceptional level of experience and willingness to go to trial.If you would like to speak with a member of the firm, or have any question, please contact our offices to arrange a consultation., Sasscer, Clagett & Bucher, 2009
• George P. Patterson is a Board Certified Civil Trial Attorney by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and a partner at the firm of Sasscer, Clagett & Bucher. Mr. Patterson has been lead counsel on hundreds of trials, recovering millions of dollars on behalf of his clients. He has successfully handled over a dozen wrongful death cases along with hundreds of cases involving permanent personal injuries. He is rated as a "superb" attorney by Avvo, an attorney rating service. "Superb" is the highest rating issued by Avvo., Maryland Auto Accident Lawyer, 2009

Educational Background:

• DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, 1993B.A.Honors: Dean's List (1990-1993)Honors: Little 500 (1991-1992)Major:  Economics Major:  Philosophy
• Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, Washington, District of Columbia, 1996 J.D.Honors: Magna Cum Laude