Senior legal practitioner and executive with extensive experience in a Top 25 Global Law Firm (Squire Patton Boggs) and Fortune 1000 company (Medical Mutual).

Pat Dugan returned to the firm in September 2014 after almost five years as Chief Legal Officer of Medical Mutual, Ohio’s largest health insurance company with US$2.5 billion in revenues, 1.5 million members and 2,500 employees. During his five years as CLO, Pat’s accomplishments included:

Reducing annual outside counsel costs by 70%.
Dramatically improving in-house productivity while holding internal costs flat.
Leading all M&A activity including managing all corporate, contractual, regulatory and other legal issues.
Organizing and facilitating a 25 person interdisciplinary team in response to the Affordable Care Act.
Developing and implementing the company’s first corporate compliance program.
Achieving record fraud and financial recoveries.

In 2012, he was selected as Crain’s Cleveland Business Northeast Ohio General Counsel of the Year.

Before leaving to become Medical Mutual’s CLO, Pat was listed in The Best Lawyers in America from 2006 to 2009 in the Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions and Banking Law categories, and was coordinator of the firm’s Business & Finance Practice area. He previously had served as leader of the firm’s Financial Services Practice Group from 2005 to 2008 and as co-leader of the Corporate Practice Group from 2002 to 2005.