Honors and Awards: # Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America (2008) # The Best Lawyers in America (2006 edition to present)# Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Lawyers in America (2007)# Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers (2008)# Lawyer of the Year, Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, DC, 1995.# Frederick Abramson Award, D.C. Bar, June 1998 (pro bono service)# Martindale-Hubbell: "AV" rated (top rating).# Yale Law School: Harlan Fiske Stone Prize and Potter Stewart Prize for best moot court efforts; C. LaRue Munson Prize for legal clinic work; editor of the Yale Law Journal.# Journalism awards (prior to legal career): finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for a series of articles co-authored on "Dangerous Doctors"# Other journalism awards: Florida Medical Association, best newspaper medical writer in the state, 1980 and 1981; The Newspaper Guild, Heywood Broun Award, 1980; American Bar Association, Gavel Award, 1980; Sigma Delta Chi, Distinguished Service Award, 1980; National Headliners Club Award, 1980; Women in Communications, Clarion Award, 1980; American Academy of Family Physicians, 2nd prize, 1981.# College: University of Kansas, 1972: summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Special Licenses/Certifications: National Institute of Trial Advocacy: Board-certified civil trial advocate

Bar/Professional Activity: Frequent lectures to national and state bar associations on trial advocacy

Pro bono/Community Service: Regularly participates in DC Bar pro bono clinic for homeless people

Scholarly Lectures and Writings: Rules of the Road: A Plaintiff Lawyer's Guide to Proving Liability, by Rick Friedman and Patrick Malone (Trial Guides, 2006); Maryland Tort Damages (chapter on admissibility of expert testimony) (MICPEL: 2000 and 2006 editions); Litigation magazine: Lincoln's Second Inaugural Speech: Lessons for Trial Lawyers, Summer 2008

Verdicts and Settlements: * Semsker v. Lockshin: $5,805,000 verdict against a prominent dermatology practice in Silver Spring, Maryland for the death of Richard Semsker, a 47-year-old attorney who was treated at the office of Norman Lockshin, M.D., P.A., on five occasions in the fall of 2004 for growths on his back, but the dermatologist left on the back a large mole that turned into a malignant melanoma two years later.* Jones v. Prince George's County, Maryland: $3.7 million verdict for the wrongful death of Prince Jones Jr., a 25-year-old college student who was shot to death by a Prince George's County, Maryland undercover police officer. A jury in Prince George's County Circuit Court awarded $2.5 million to the young daughter of the deceased, Nina Jones, and $200,000 to Prince Jones's father, both of whom were represented by Mr. Malone and his co-counsel, Terrell N. Roberts III. The jury awarded $1 million to Mabel Jones, the mother of the deceased, who had separate lawyers. * Burke v. Goodman and Groover, Christie & Merritt. $5,774,000 award for a 40-year-old woman who suffered a series of small strokes that went undiagnosed until she suffered a major stroke that left her with permanent cognitive deficits, inability to work, and difficulty communicating. The verdict in the Superior Court of Washington, D.C., was against a neurologist and a major group of radiologists. The verdict was reduced by $1.4 million on appeal to account for Maryland's "cap" on damages for loss of quality of life, but the verdict was otherwise affirmed. * Garver v. Mathews: $650,000 verdict for our client, a 60-year-old spine surgeon from Connecticut, who suffered a permanent nerve injury with chronic pain syndrome as a result of improper insertion of an artificial disc in his lower spine by a surgeon in Richmond, Virginia. The defendant was an internationally famous surgeon who pioneered the development of artificial discs. According to the judge who ruled after a non-jury trial, the defendant failed to follow his own recommendations for clearing out the disc space before insertion of the artificial disc. * Boone v. Goldberg: $943,000 verdict in Montgomery County, Maryland, for a 62-year-old man whose brain was punctured by an instrument during ear surgery. The surgeon denied anything had happened, and the case was proved by post-operative CT scans. After a three-year battle through two appellate courts, the verdict was affirmed in its entirety by the Maryland Court of Appeals. * Cooper v. First Government Mortgage & Lenders Corp.: $4.5 million jury verdict in federal court in Washington, D.C., for six consumers cheated in home loans by a mortgage lender. * Greisman v. Zygler and Wister: $2 million verdict in Baltimore City Circuit Court for wrongful death of a middle-aged man from delayed diagnosis of kidney cancer. * Benedi v. McNeil-PPC Inc., 66 F.3d 1378 (4th Cir. 1995). Antonio Benedi lost his liver and required an emergency transplant after taking ordinary doses of Tylenol for several days. He regularly drank wine before this. The suit was brought against McNeil, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, alleging that the company had known since the 1970s that Tylenol (acetaminophen) taken by regular drinkers can poison the liver. The jury awarded $7,855,000 in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages. The award was affirmed on appeal in the first reported decision in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit approved punitive damages in a product liability case. A  review of cases done by The Boston Globe in August 2005 confirms that this is still one of the largest collected judgments against a pharmaceutical manufacturer.

Educational Background: Yale Law School, J.D., 1984; University of Kansas, B.A., 1972, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, departmental honors