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Patrick is the Vice President of Enterprise and Operational Risk Management at Lawyers Mutual as well as filling the roles of Corporate Secretary and Director of Information Security. He has also previously served in the roles of relationship manager and underwriter. Prior to joining Lawyers Mutual in 2011 he practiced in the areas of real estate, foreclosure, creditor's rights, and insurance subrogation - actively practicing in North Carolina and Virginia. He is licensed in North Carolina, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and the US Patent & Trademark Office; received his J.D. from Campbell University School of Law and a B.S. in Biology from UNC-Chapel Hill. Patrick is a North Carolina State Bar board certified specialist in Privacy & Information Security Law and has been designated a Fellow of Information Privacy and a Privacy Law Specialist by the IAPP. Additionally, he is a Certified Information Privacy Professional for US private sector (CIPP/US) and Europe (CIPP/E), Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified In Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), and Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE).  He has served on the NC State Bar’s Cybersecurity/PMBR Committee, the NC Bar Association’s Privacy and Data Security Section, the Wake County Bar Association’s CLE and Technology/Communications Committees, NAMIC’s Data Security and Privacy Working Group, and as a reviewer for ISACA’s CDPSE review manual.