THE TEAM

Ralph G. Patino, Esq.

Partner

Ralph G. Patino is the managing shareholder, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Patino & Associates, P.A., which was founded in 1992. He has successfully led the law firm in achieving many multimillion dollar jury awards and settlements. As such, he is a member of the Million Dollar Verdict Club.

Mr. Patino is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubell and has been honored nationally by his peers at the American Association for Justice with the James L. Sharp award for the Pursuit of Public Justice. He is one of a handful of products liability attorneys credited with for the prompting of a massive recall of over 6.5 million Firestone ATX Wilderness tires after proving to Federal agencies (NHTSA) that they were defective. As a result of this work, he was chosen to lead the pack as a steering committee member and finance chair of the largest multi-district litigation group ever assembled in U.S. history.

In response to his leadership roles in national issues, as well as his involvement with products liability cases which protect the public, Mr. Patino has been featured on both American and Hispanic broadcast media including Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN, CNNE, Despierta America, Al Rojo Vivo,America TeVe, Mundo Fox and Actualidad 1020AM,and print media including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Automotive Weekly, the Miami Herald, theSun Sentinel and the South Florida Business Journal.

Mr.Patino is also committed to public service. At the federal level, he is a member of the Democratic National Finance Committee, a founder and board member of Cuba Now, a founding Member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s U.S.-Cuba Business Council, and together with nationally-known Latino figures Eva Longoria, Henry Munoz and Andres Lopez, he is a founding member of the Futuro Fund, an organization credited with raising $36 million dollars for the Democratic National Committee in 2012 by engaging and empowering Hispanic and Latino donors for the first time. Compounding on this success, in 2014, he also co-founded the Latino Victory Project, whose sole mission is to support Latino and Hispanic candidates for office throughout the United States.

On the state and local level, Mr. Patino is a trustee of the Florida Democratic Party and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Jackson Health System Public Health Trust, which is entrusted with the steering of a multi-billion dollar enterprise. He is also an acting director of the Mourning Foundation, a charitable trust for inner-city children, and co-chair of the Olympia Center, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to managing and maintaining the Olympia Theater, downtown Miami’s oldest historic performing arts center.