Patrick "Packey" Conlon is an Associate in Locke Lord's Litigation Department and a member of the Firm’s Class Actions practice group. Packey has tried cases through trial, and regularly represents clients in high stakes litigation of complex commercial, business tort, and class action matters in jurisdictions across the country. He has a broad scope of trial and appellate court experience, including co-chairing a week-long trial, engaging in summary judgment practice, oral arguments on pleadings motions, discovery, arbitration, and pre and post-trial practice.
Packey advises and counsels clients in a variety of business litigation and dispute resolution matters, including commercial contract disputes, protection of valuable trade-secret information, corporate governance disputes, non-compete agreement enforcement, business and securities fraud, and adversary proceedings pending in bankruptcy court.
Packey’s practice also includes defending financial institutions in individual and class action lawsuits concerning claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Truth in Lending Act (TILA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), and state consumer fraud and deceptive business practices statutes such as the Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act (FCCPA), Wisconsin Consumer Act (WCA), and Illinois Consumer Fraud Act (ICFA).
Patrick "Packey" Conlon is an Associate in Locke Lord's Litigation Department and a member of the Firm’s Class Actions practice group. Packey has tried cases through trial, and regularly represents clients in high stakes litigation of complex commercial, business tort, and class action matters in jurisdictions across the country. He has a broad scope of trial and appellate court experience, including co-chairing a week-long trial, engaging in summary judgment practice, oral arguments on pleadings motions, discovery, arbitration, and pre and post-trial practice.
Packey advises and counsels clients in a variety of business litigation and dispute resolution matters, including commercial contract disputes, protection of valuable trade-secret information, corporate governance disputes, non-compete agreement enforcement, business and securities fraud, and adversary proceedings pending in bankruptcy court.
Packey’s practice also includes defending financial institutions in individual and class action lawsuits concerning claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Truth in Lending Act (TILA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), and state consumer fraud and deceptive business practices statutes such as the Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act (FCCPA), Wisconsin Consumer Act (WCA), and Illinois Consumer Fraud Act (ICFA).
Representative Experience
- Co-chair in five day bench trial involving the defense of an aiding and abetting a breach of fiduciary duty claim.
- Member of team that obtained a rarely-issued supervisory order from the Illinois Supreme Court, which vacated the trial court’s order of sanctions and ended the sanctions proceedings.
- Obtained a temporary restraining order on behalf of Fortune 500 Company in matter involving a former employee’s violation of a non-compete clause and the Illinois Trade Secrets Act.
- Secured judgment for a client in a lawsuit involving charges of consumer fraud brought in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The Court entered an order dismissing with prejudice all claims against the client. On appeal, the Seventh Circuit affirmed the order.
- Argued motion to dismiss in Illinois state court on behalf of mortgage servicer in response to arguments pertaining to the interpretation of the Illinois Appellate Court's decision in First Mortgage Company v. Dina, 2014 IL App (2d) 130567. Following oral argument, the Court granted the motion to dismiss.
- Drafted and received orders granting multiple motions to stay based on a potential lack of jurisdiction pending the United States Supreme Court’s outcome in Spokeo v. Robins, 136 S. Ct. 1540 (2016) in federal courts across the country. Currently litigating the effects of the Spokeo opinion in various cases.
- Member of a team defending one of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers in putative federal class action asserting TCPA claims alleging that defendants skip trace cell phone numbers and then call the numbers without consent using an auto-dialer.
- Lead associate representing one of the nation’s largest financial institutions in a case involving tortious interference and statutory interpretation issues in connection with a real estate owned property.
- Member of a team defending a subsidiary of an international corporation in federal court concerning a multi-million dollar complex commercial contract dispute.
- Member of a team representing former directors and officers of an international corporation in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings concerning the corporation.
- Lead associate in AAA arbitration proceedings on behalf of a financial institution in connection with alleged TCPA violations.
- Lead associate in multiple cases representing one of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers in state and federal courts across the country in cases involving claims of consumer fraud and improper lending practices, which includes drafting and attending court hearings on motions for summary judgment, motions to dismiss, and discovery requests; along with conducting settlement negotiations.
Professional History
- Associate, Locke Lord LLP
- Intern, Office of the General Counsel to Governor Pat Quinn
Professional Affiliations and Recognitions
- Member, Chicago Bar Association
- Co-Chair and Co-Founder, The Anti Violence Task Force
Community Leadership
As part of his commitment to public service, Packey is the co-founder and co-chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Anti-Violence Task Force. Packey also maintains an active pro bono practice which has included representing a high school student in connection with his individualized education program. During law school, Packey served as a student-attorney for the University of Michigan Law School’s Civil-Criminal Litigation Clinic and Human Trafficking Clinic. In addition, Packey held a Symposium Editor position on the Michigan Journal of Law Reform, where he helped organize and run a symposium on the 50th Anniversary of the enactment of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, exploring the current state of immigration law and reform in the United States. During the passage of Concealed Carry and Health Care legislation in Illinois, Packey interned for the Office of the General Counsel to the former Governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn. At the Governor’s office, one of Packey’s roles included analyzing clemency petitions and making recommendations to the Governor concerning the expungement of rehabilitated prisoners. Motivated by the clemency process, Packey published a comment for the Michigan Journal of Law Reform that analyzed and supported the retroactive application of a Supreme Court case that held it unconstitutional to impose mandatory life without parole sentences against juvenile offenders.