Patrick Anderson is a magna cum laude graduate of Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He attended law school in the evenings while working full-time as a clerk at Healy Scanlon Law Firm, graduating first in his class. While studying at Loyola, he won awards for Academic Excellence in Illinois Litigation, Advanced Civil Procedure, Advanced Writing for Civil Litigation, and Legal Writing.

In 2006, he graduated with Honors from Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois where he actively competed with the American Mock Trial Association and was a member of the Delta Epsilon Sigma National Catholic Honors Society.

Since joining Healy Scanlon Law Firm as a clerk in 2004, he has worked closely with the firm’s attorneys on over 20 major jury trials and numerous other cases resulting in successful settlements. He has authored the firm’s monthly article published in the Irish American News, and has drafted briefs and motions at the trial court level, for the Illinois Appellate Court, and the Illinois Supreme Court. After recently being licensed, he became an associate attorney at the firm, concentrating his practice in personal injury and workers’ compensation.

Pat is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Workers Compensation Lawyers Association, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and the Illinois State Bar Association.