Partner at Hogan Marren, Ltd., and Vice-Chair, Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance Board of Directors
Patrick E. Deady, attorney with Hogan Marren, Ltd., is head of the firm’s litigation practice. He brings an extensive civil and criminal litigation background to the firm with ten years of experience as a federal prosecutor and more than twenty years in private practice. Mr. Deady is responsible for supervising the firm’s labor, ERISA, health care and white collar defense litigation. Mr. Deady joined Hogan Marren in 1996.
Mr. Deady has conducted jury trials and bench trials, both in federal and state courts, and argued before the United States Courts of Appeals and the Illinois Appellate Courts in a wide range of cases involving bribery, public corruption, civil rights conspiracy, securities fraud, commodities fraud, tax evasion, criminal and civil RICO violations, Medicaid fraud, insurance fraud, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, Illinois trades secrets violations and insurance coverage issues. Since joining the firm, Mr. Deady has successfully represented hospitals and health systems in antitrust matters, federal false claim act and whistleblower litigation, Medicare, Medicaid and insurance reimbursement disputes, breach of contract actions, age and sex discrimination claims, employment disputes and other commercial litigation. Mr. Deady is responsible for the firm’s white collar criminal practice and represents organizations and individuals in grand jury and regulatory investigations, administrative proceedings and trials arising out of inquiries into public corruption, financial misconduct and government fraud. Most recently, Mr. Deady and the firm defended at trial and on appeal one of several Chicago City Hall employees charged in a hiring fraud scheme, Sorich v. U.S., 129 S. Ct. 1308 (2009). Mr. Deady has also represented contractors, labor organizations and pension and benefit funds in a wide range of matters involving jurisdictional disputes, contraction formation and collective bargaining disputes, in arbitration proceedings, in bankruptcy proceedings, ERISA collection and in alter ego actions, unfair labor practice charges and election petitions before the National Labor Relations Board and Illinois State Labor Board. As part of the firm’s state and local government practice, Mr. Deady also serves as the Village Attorney for the Village of Hillside, Illinois, consulting with the President, Village Trustees and Village staff on all municipal issues, and represents the Village and other local governments in a wide range of litigation matters.
Mr. Deady serves as a Senior Instructor in the Trial Advocacy Program at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, is on the faculty of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, was a regular instructor of the Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Deady served as President of the Board of Commissioners of the River Forest Park District and is now Vice-Chair of the Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance Board of Directors. He has served on a number of other public boards and commissions and on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations. Mr. Deady is a member of the Chicago Bar and American Bar Associations.
Mr. Deady was recently named Program Co-Chair for the annual Midwinter Meeting of the ABA’s Committee on the Development of the Law Under the National Labor Relations Act. Mr. Deady was also recognized by the ABA Labor and Employment Law Section and Bloomberg BNA for his contributions as an Associate Editor of the Developing Labor Law, Sixth Edition, published in 2012.