Patrick Luff is an experienced mass torts litigator, having served Co-Liaison (Lead) Counsel in the Texas MDL In re: Winter Storm Uri Litigation, on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in In re: Paragard IUD Products Liability Litigation, and on the Law and Briefing Committee in In re: Smith & Nephew Birmingham Hip Resurfacing Litigation. Patrick is also regularly invited to speak on mass tort topics, having spoken 34 times in the last two years on mass torts topics.

Before entering practice, Patrick was a professor of law at Washington and Lee University, Arizona State University, and the University of Oklahoma. While teaching legislation and statutory interpretation, civil procedure, administrative law, he published extensively on mass torts, with articles appearing in the Connecticut Law Review, the Utah Law Review, and the Arizona State Law Review, and others. Patrick also spent time as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Patrick graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was an executive editor of the Michigan Law Review. Between law school and teaching, he did doctoral work at the University of Oxford on the regulatory role of litigation.