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Attorney
- Phone:
- 509.517.5208
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- 509.282.8511
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- pstocks@hawleytroxell.com
Biography
Patrick Stocks is an attorney in the firm’s Litigation practice group in Yakima. Patrick received his J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 2014 and earned a B.A. summa cum laude in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2010.
During law school, Patrick was a Legal Intern for the Alaska Public Defender Agency and a Student Clinical Volunteer for the University of Michigan Child Advocacy Law Clinic. Upon graduation, Patrick served as a Law Clerk for Deputy Presiding Judge Vanessa White of the Superior Court for the State of Alaska from 2014 to 2015, and then served as a Law Clerk for Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah M. Smith of the United States District Court, District of Alaska, from 2015 to 2018.
Prior to joining Hawley Troxell in 2026, Patrick most recently practiced law for the Northwest Justice Project, where he represented clients in civil and post-conviction criminal matters.
Expertise
BAR ADMISSIONS
Washington
Alaska
EDUCATION
Law School:
University of Michigan Law School, J.D. cum laude, 2014
Undergraduate:
University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A. Literature summa cum laude, 2010
CLERKSHIPS
Law Clerk for Deputy Presiding Judge Vanessa White, Superior Court for the State of Alaska, 2014–2015
Law Clerk for Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah M. Smith, United States District Court, District of Alaska, 2015–2018
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