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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