Patrick D. Austermuehle, a partner at Lubin Austermuehle DiTommaso, has experience in complex business and commercial litigation and consumer class actions. He has assisted in the successful representation of a number of state and federal matters, including cases at the appellate level.
Mr. Austermuehle received a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin and earned a J.D. with Honors from Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he was Notes and Comments Editor on the Law Review.
Prior to joining Lubin Austermuehle DiTommaso, Mr. Austermuehle served as a law clerk at the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and as a Judicial Extern at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 2009 and the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois in 2010. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association.
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| Often times in lawsuits, things are very emotionally heightened. It’s expensive, it’s unpleasant, and it’s just a sort of source of stress that most people don’t like. It’s sometimes hard to remove yourself from that perspective and see things in a sort of an analytical way. In other words, not let the emotion of the lawsuit dictate what decisions are made in prosecuting or defending that lawsuit. So, I often find myself giving clients advice about trying to separate the emotional aspect of a case from what we’re actually going to do in the case. Decisions that are made on an emotional basis are obviously not the best decisions. That’s where I come in and try to point out a more business-oriented approach to the circumstances. Maybe it sounds a bit simple, but I guess I would say the most rewarding thing is achieving a result for a client. Often times, when you’re involved in a lawsuit, it’s a really difficult position to be in, both personally and as a business. So, to achieve a result that makes the client happy after the entire process plays out can be rewarding, both just as a matter of professional pride as well as seeing the client happy with the result. |
From Patrick’s interview for the Masters of the Courtroom series on ReelLawyers.com.
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