Patricia Wallace is a litigator.  Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and appeals.  Her forum of choice is the federal court, but she also has handled numerous cases before state courts throughout Florida and arbitration panels.  Patricia enjoys public speaking, especially on topics that once were fodder for the classes she taught at Florida International University, where she served as an assistant professor of English for several years in the mid-1990s.  Patricia grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia.  She received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then received a second B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Oxford in England.  Patricia also holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in medieval studies from Cornell University.  Patricia enjoys the ocean and all that it offers.