Patrick Howard joined SMBB in 2007
as an associate in the firm's Class
Action Practice Group. Mr. Howard brings with him
significant experience in the prosecution of pharmaceutical
pricing, consumer
fraud and antitrust
cases.
Before joining SMBB, Mr. Howard worked in the Philadelphia
office of Spector, Roseman, and Kodroff, P.C., where he
had an active role in In re Pharmaceutical Industry
Average Wholesale Price Litigation, MDL No. 1456 (D.
Mass.) and also represented the Attorney General of the
State of Connecticut in fraud and misrepresentation claims
against major drug companies. Mr. Howard has also worked
with the Philadelphia law firm of Post & Schell, P.C.,
where he represented health systems, hospitals and individual
physicians in a variety of cases.
Mr. Howard is a 1998 graduate of the University of Scranton,
where he received a B.S. in both Political Science and
History. He received his law degree from the University
of Pittsburgh School of Law in 2001. While in law school,
Mr. Howard received Dean's Honors, was a member of the
school's Moot Court Board and participated in the Robert
Wagner National Labor and Employment Moot Court Competition.
After law school, Mr. Howard worked as a judicial clerk
for the Honorable Peter Paul Olszewski of the Pennsylvania
Superior Court.
Mr. Howard is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey. He is currently
a member of the American, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia
Bar Associations.
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