Patrick Palace

PATRICK A. PALACE is the owner of Palace Law and Palace Personal Injury Law Group. Palace Law is workers' compensation firm and Palace Personal Injury Law Group. Patrick is the President of the National Conference of Bar Presidents (2025 -2026),member of the NCBP Executive Counsel 2018-Present. The NCBP trains Bar leadership nationwide. He was the President of the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) 2013-2014. He was the Vice Chair for the ABA Center for Innovation, and co-hosts the ABA Center’s Innovation Network Podcast. Patrick has been recognized by the ABA as a “Legal Rebel” (Class of 2023) and pictured on the front page of the ABA Journal Jan/Feb 2023 edition. He is a co-founder of the American Legal Technology Awards, a national award that recognize 8 legal leaders of innovation across the country at the Annual American Legal Technology Awards in Nashville Tennessee. He also served on the editorial Board for GPSolo Magazine and was the convening editor for GPSolos “COVID an the Law” edition and the Reregulation edition (July – Aug 2021). He was WSBA Board of Governors from 2008 – 2011, WSBA Treasurer, Chaired the WSBA Futures Committee and served on the Washington Association of Justice Board of Governors for 9 years, Patrick has presented at the Clio Cloud Conference, AVVOs Lawyernomics, the ABA TechShow, Western States Bar Conference and others. He has been interviewed on over 60 podcasts by Bob Ambrogi (LawNext), the Lawyerist, Lawsome, Clienting, The Paralegal Voice, multiple podcasts on Legal Talk Network’s “On the Road”, Jeena Cho’s “The Resilient Lawyer” podcast and more. Since 2001, Patrick has been chosen by Law and Politics Magazine as a “Super Lawyer”, was the first recipient of the “Service to the Legal Profession Award”, selected by the Lawfirm 500 and as as one of the Nation’s Top 100 trial lawyers. He was also named as one of the “Top Attorneys in Washington.” Patrick produced and moderated two television programs: “The Peoples Law School" and "LawTalk". These programs provide consumers with information about their rights and remedies. In 2020 Palace Law began purchasing other law firms and since then has completed 6 law firm mergers. Palace Law continues to seek new merger partners. Finally, in 2015, Patrick opened a winery, Sunken Cellars (SunkenCellars.com). Patrick is also a proud father who has a tendency to listen to his music (while drinking wine, and sometimes practicing yoga) louder than his three non-rocker children would like.