Patrick Berrigan

Patrick Berrigan
Adjunct Professor of Law
School of Law
criminal defense, capital murder litigation

About

A 1984 graduate of the UMKC School of Law, Pat Berrigan is a trial lawyer in the Missouri State Public Defender System, in an office devoted exclusively to death penalty defense of indigent persons charged with capital murder. Pat has tried serious felonies and murder cases in state and federal courts in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Tennessee. He was also a trial lawyer for fourteen years in the Kansas City firm of Watson and Dameron, representing injured plaintiffs in personal injury and medical malpractice cases in Missouri and Kansas.