First Admitted: 2015, California

Bar/Professional Activity:

Honors/Awards:

CALI Excellence Awards in Legal Writing and Research and Cyber Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Mediator, Civil Justice Mediation Clinic, University of California, Hastings College of the Law

Educational Background:

University of California, Berkeley, Bachelor of Arts degrees in Psychology and Rhetoric in 2009

White Papers:

The future is unmarried but entangled – fewer couples are getting married and more unmarried couples acquire property, pursue business, help and support each other and pool assets and efforts to create often-complex, financially-intertwined lives. California’s elaborate Family Code and case law determine property rights between married persons based on community property. But what happens when unmarried couples make financial deals during their relationship? In a less-married millennium, disputes between unmarried partners are more common than ever and may arise during their lifetimes or upon a partner’s death. This is an increasingly important, ascendant area of California civil and probate litigation., The law and practice of litigating Marvin claims in a less-married millennium, 2020

Scholarly Lectures/Writings:

Editor, Hastings Law Journal, University of California, Hastings College of the Law

Patrick T. Freeman