Judy Skogmo
(Pat's Assistant)
judy.skogmo@fmjlaw.com
Pat is a corporate, transactional and intellectual property attorney, focusing on small to medium sized privately-held businesses. Pat’s practice includes advising clients on choice of entity, general corporate and partnership matters, commercial matters (contract drafting, review and advice), shareholder and partner relations (shareholder, partnership, and “buy/sell” agreements), securities and other corporate financing, business combination matters (including mergers, asset and stock purchases, and other similar business combinations), and intellectual property issues. Pat also works with regulated and unregulated lenders with regard to commercial lending and financing transactions, including secured and unsecured lending.
In the area of intellectual property, Pat assists clients with trademark and copyright registration and compliance, trademark and copyright licensing, dispute resolution and pre-dispute counseling, Internet law and domain name issues, and trade secret issues. Pat also works with independent patent attorneys for his clients that have patent needs.
Pat was named one of Minnesota’s “Rising Stars” in the legal profession in 2006 and he has consistently been named a Super Lawyer (a distinction only 5% of attorneys in Minnesota attain) since 2009. Pat has also received an AV Peer Review Rating through Martindale-Hubbell. Prior to attending college, Pat served for six years in the United States Marine Corps as Russian cryptologic linguist, held the rank of Sergeant, and served as an electronic warfare team chief in all sorts of climes and places.
University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN (JD, cum laude, 1997)
Saint John’s University, Collegeville, MN (BA, summa cum laude, 1994)
Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA (Graduate of Russian (Basic) Course, 1985)
State of Minnesota (1997)
“As a business attorney, I recognize my role as a counselor to business owners and operators who make numerous critical decisions on a daily basis. Having practiced as a business attorney during my entire legal career, I try to approach business issues with the same viewpoint and the same focus on the end result as my client.”
Pat lives with his two children in Plymouth. He gets satisfaction from supervising student attorneys at the University of Minnesota Law School and lecturing to law students and attorneys. When not practicing law or spending time with his family, Pat enjoys downhill skiing, catching up on movies, in-line skating, and reading about history.
