W. Patrick Conlon

Patrick "Packey" Conlon is an Associate in Locke Lord's Litigation Department. Packey 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 jury and bench trials at the state and federal level, oral argument at the appellate level, and engaging in summary judgment, deposition, discovery, arbitration, and pre and post-trial practice.

Packey advises and counsels clients in a variety of business litigation and dispute resolution matters, most often including the defense of officers and directors against claims for breach of fiduciary duty. Packey additionally has represented clients in connection with 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.

• Obtained a defense judgment on behalf of an insurance broker following a one week bench trial, which defeated all of the court-appointed corporate receiver’s claims alleging aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty and seeking damages for the alleged diversion of millions of dollars in insurance commissions and related damages.
• Member of a 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.
• Member of a team that defended former directors and officers of an international medical device company in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings and related adversary proceedings involving claims for breach of fiduciary duty asserted by the creditor’s committee and Litigation Trustee.
• Member of a team that defended international crane manufacturer in a jury trial seeking multi-million dollar claims for misappropriation of trade secrets and tortious interference with contract.
• 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.
• Member of a team that defended 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.
• Defended Canadian subsidiary of global food manufacturer in federal lawsuit brought by former vendor alleging breach of manufacturing and supply agreements under the Uniform Commercial Code and common law.

Reported Decisions

• Wilson v. Hisp. Hous. Dev. Corp., No. 20 CV 1044, 2021 WL 2012239 (N.D. Ill. May 20, 2021)
• Manskey v. Wiggs, No. 3:16-CV-01368-MAB, 2020 WL 6701186 (S.D. Ill. Nov. 13, 2020)
• Breitweiser v. Highland Capital Brokerage, et al, 2019 IL App (1st) 181898-U, 2019 WL 6337358 (Nov. 25, 2019)
• Citibank, N.A. as Tr. for Am. Home Mortg. Assets Tr. 2006-3 v. Busuioc, 2018 IL App (1st) 172956, 128 N.E.3d 306