Professor Sandy C. Patrick is a Professor of Lawyering at the Lewis & Clark Law School. Ms. Patrick earned her JD from the University of Tennessee School of Law.  After her clerkship, she practiced law in Tennessee as an Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Appeals and Death Penalty Division, then she went into private practice with the international law firm of Kilpatrick Stockton (now Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton), working primarily in corporate and civil litigation, while also teaching undergraduate law classes at a private university.

Sandy has taught Lawyering and upper-division legal writing courses at Lewis & Clark since 2001. She has also served as the school’s Writing Specialist. Professor Patrick has co-authored two textbooks, An Advocate Persuades and A Lawyer Writes. These textbooks teach law students foundational concepts of legal analysis, critical reading, and communication of that analysis for both predictive and persuasive legal documents.