About
Patricia Payne - *Rated AV Preeminent through Martindale–Hubbell®™*
Patricia Payne received her B.A. from the University of Michigan,J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center (serving as an Editor on the Journal for Law and Policy in International Business) and her MBA from Johns Hopkins University in 2004.
Ms. Payne heads the company s exercise and serves as outdoor popular recommend to over 30 place groups and non-profit companies inside the Washington Metropolitan vicinity. Providing comprehensive representation in civil and commercial litigation topics, Ms. Payne also counsels and represents clients in transactional matters (such as new commercial enterprise formation , finance and securities and transactional work) education and negotiation of contracts (employment, buy-promote, shareholder, operating, licensing), internal operational troubles (consisting of employment/exertions disputes), litigation and arbitration of employment disputes and business wind-downs/dissolutions.
Ms. Payne has also represented hundreds of people in business and settlement disputes, hard work and employment subjects (earlier than the EEOC and in nation and federal courts) and in addressing business, industrial and estate planning desires.
Ms. Payne started out her career with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and fashioned her exercise in 1992.
In addition to club in the DC, Maryland and Virginia Bar Associations, Ms. Payne is likewise a member of: The American Bar Association, the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (BADC), the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association (MWELA), The National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), the American Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA), the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (VTLA), the Fairfax Bar Association).
Ms. Payne is also an Ambassador has membership of Hope Connections for Cancer and a has membership of the Board of Directors of Signature Theatre and MWELA.
Contact Ms. Payne at: PLP@paynelegal.com
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- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Business Arbitration, Consumer Arbitration, Family Arbitration
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
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Experience
- Principal
Payne & Associates
1992
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Graduation year: 2000

Graduation year: 1976

Graduation year: 1974