Patrick J. Sheehan

psheehan@wdklaw.com 
Boston Office
617-573-5118, vCard

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Mr. Sheehan heads the firm's Boston, Massachusetts office. Mr. Sheehan's practice focuses on consumer protection, health care law, insurance law, issues relating to information security and identity theft and other complex litigation. As part of his practice, Mr. Sheehan represents businesses, professional associations, professionals, consumers and other individuals in class actions and other litigation pending throughout the country.

Mr. Sheehan has represented physicians and medical associations in class actions brought in numerous federal and state courts. Mr. Sheehan currently represents plaintiff physicians and medical societies in the In Re Managed Care Litigation and Love v. Blue Cross Blue Shield et al., pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, which have already led to landmark settlements resulting in billions of dollars worth of managed care reforms and monetary relief for physicians across the country. Mr. Sheehan has also represented physicians and state medical societies in state court actions and arbitrations in jurisdictions across the nation.
Mr. Sheehan’s current consumer class actions include In re Aurora Dairy Corp. Organic Milk Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation, pending in the Eastern District of Missouri, which alleges that Aurora Dairy and various retailers marketed and sold Aurora Dairy milk as “organic” even though it failed to comply with federal organic standards in numerous respects. Mr. Sheehan also represents consumers in the In re Bisphenol-A Tainted Polycarbonate Plastic Litigation, brought against a number of the leading manufacturers of plastic bottles for misrepresenting and failing to disclose the safety risks linked to the chemical compound Bisphenol-A used to make their products.

In In Re TJX Companies Retail Security Breach Litigation, brought in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Mr. Sheehan represents a proposed class of banks and credit unions who were injured when their customers’ payment card accounts were compromised in the largest data breach in retail history. Mr. Sheehan also represents consumers affected by recent data breaches at Hannaford Supermarkets and Countrywide Financial Corporation in In re Hannaford Bros. Co. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation and Lemuz v. Countrywide Financial Corporation, currently pending in the United States District Courts for the District of Maine and Central District of California, respectively.

Mr. Sheehan is also involved in In re Insurance Brokerage Antitrust Litigation, filed in the District of New Jersey against certain of the largest insurance companies and insurance brokers in the country in connection with their use of undisclosed contingent commissions. To date, this litigation has led to settlements totaling tens of millions of dollars.
Mr. Sheehan regularly contributes to legal publications and continuing legal education programs. He also frequently volunteers his time on a pro bono basis. Mr. Sheehan is an active participant in the Health Law Advocates Pro Bono Legal Network, through which he provides legal assistance to individuals seeking access to health care. Mr. Sheehan also served as a volunteer attorney for Trial Lawyers Care, the largest pro bono legal program in history, through which he provided legal services to individuals and families who sought compensation under the September 11th Compensation Fund. Recently, Mr. Sheehan served as a scoring judge for the American Bar Association’s National Appellate Advocacy Competition.

Mr. Sheehan is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross (B.A., 1993) and Northeastern University School of Law (J.D., 1997), where he was an editor of the NU Forum. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys and the Boston Bar Association and serves on the Board of Directors of the Holy Cross Lawyers Association. He is a member of the Massachusetts and New York Bars and is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the District of Massachusetts, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the First Circuit Court of Appeals.