Patrick S. Brady

Mr. Brady is of counsel with Forsberg & Umlauf, P.S. where his litigation and appellate practice, in all aspects of insurance defense, along with special emphasis in coverage and bad-faith issues.

E-Mail: pbrady@forsberg-umlauf.com

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• Experience:
  Mr. Brady has handled the litigation and appeal of insurance coverage, insurance broker, environmental and bad-faith issues; and commercial issues, including nuclear fuel, timber, and Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act cases.  His Ph.D. and college teaching experience in American History bring an added perspective to many legal matters.  He is completing a nonfiction account of a battle in the American Civil War. 

• Education:
  Stanford University, B.A., 1966
  University of California at Santa Barbara, Ph.D., 1971
  Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship, 1971
  Indiana University School of Law, J.D., Summa Cum Laude, 1979
  Graduated first in class, Order of the Coif, Editor-in-Chief, Indiana Law Journal

• Admitted To Bar:
  Washington 1981
  United States District Court, Western District of Washington
  United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  United States Supreme Court

• Memberships:
  Washington State Bar Association
  King County Bar Association

• Lectures, Seminars, and Publications:

  • National Business Institute, Current Issues Impacting Insurance Defense Practice, June 19, 2007

  • Avoiding Bad Faith Claims, Continuing legal Education Seminar, National Business Institute, November 2006.

  • The Effect of Stipulated Judgments on Coverage and Bad Faith Claims, Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Washington Defense Trial Lawyers, April 2005.

  • Reasonableness Hearings after Covenant Judgments, Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Northwest Insurance Coverage Association, January 2005.

  • Taking and Defending Effective Depositions, Continuing Legal Education, Lorman Educational Services, December 2004.

  • The Insurance Contract, Continuing Legal Education Seminar, National Business Institute, October 1996.

  • Current Developments in Environmental Claims Handling on Coverage Litigation, Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Northwest Environmental Claims Seminar, September 1996.

  • Enviro '95 Current Developments, Continuing Legal Education, Northwest Environmental Claims Association, September 1995.

  • Insurance Claims Handling and Environmental Coverage, Continuing Legal Education, Northwest Environmental Claims Association, September 1994.

  • "Your Duties & Liabilities -- More Than a Mere Order Taker." The Broker, Sept./Oct. 1992

  • Duties and Liabilities of Insurance Brokers, Continuing Legal Education Seminar University of Washington, June 1992.

  • "Timber Appraisals Should Pass Court Test," Western Forester, May 1992

  • Program on Timber Appraisals, presented to Coos and to Tillamook-Clatsop Chapters, Society of American Foresters, March 1991.

  • "The Criminal Law in Antebellum North Carolina: Reconsideration of the Ruffin Court," 10 North Carolina Central Law Journal 248 (1979).

  • "Interrogation and the Sixth Amendment: the Case for Restriction of Capacity to Waive the Right to Counsel," 53 Indiana Law Journal 313 (1978).

  • Contributing Author of Firm Deskbook Publications: Coverage and Bad Faith