Patrick C. Bageant

PATRICK C. BAGEANT, born in Boulder, Colorado, raised in northern Idaho; admitted to California Bar in January 2011, and Washington Bar, November 2011.

Mr. Bageant joined Susman Godfrey in 2011, after earning a Juris Doctorate from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law and completing a federal clerkship. Before law school, Mr. Bageant served as a municipal firefighter, advanced EMT, and as a helicopter rappeller with the United States Forest Service where he participated in and led fire suppression and rescue missions across the western United States and received two Commendations for Merit.

• University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (J.D. 2010)
• Stephen Finney Jamison Prize (awarded to top graduating scholar and advocate at Berkeley Law).
• National Appellate Moot Court Competition (national finalist, 2008, oral advocate award, 2009).
• McBaine Honors Moot Court Competition (finalist, 2009, 2010).
• American Jurisprudence Awards in: Appellate Advocacy; California Constitutional Law; U.S. Constitutional Law; First Amendment Law; Prosser Award in Criminal Law.
• University of Idaho (B.S., Philosophy, with writing minor, 2007)
• Class of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences’ Distinguished Graduating Senior.
• Dean’s List.
• Sigma Tau Delta.

Law Clerk to the Honorable Ruggero J. Aldisert, Chief Judge Emeritus, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

• 2006: Commendation for Merit by the United States Department of Agriculture for providing technical assistance in the safe swift-water rescue of four individuals entrapped in a van underwater in the Secesh River, Idaho.
• 2006: Commendation for Merit by the United States Department of Agriculture for providing life-saving emergency medical care to three individuals involved in a backcountry airplane crash at Big Creek, Idaho.
• 2005: Distinguished by the City of Moscow, Idaho, for exemplary service and leadership as a municipal firefighter and Advanced EMT.

• State Bar of California.
• Washington State Bar Association.
• American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division.
• King County Judicial Selection Committee.
• King County Pro Bono Association.
• Krassel, America, Alumni Association.