Pete Patterson is a partner at Cooper & Kirk, PLLC. Prior to arriving at Cooper & Kirk, he served as Associate Counsel to the President in the White House Counsel’s Office. Before that, he served as a law clerk to Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Pete's practice includes appellate litigation, constitutional litigation, commercial litigation, and administrative law. He has litigated dozens of Second Amendment cases since the Supreme Court's decision in Bruen in courts across the country. In addition, Mr. Patterson for a number of years taught an appellate litigation clinic at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.