Patrick A. Cruise is licensed in Tennessee, Georgia, and Louisiana. In seven plus years of practice Mr. Cruise has handled over six hundred cases, including trials in Tennessee, Georgia, and Louisiana. He has obtained millions of dollars in compensation for his clients, including a judgment in excess of $700,000.00 against a drunk driver. After practicing personal injury law for over three years in Louisiana, Mr. Cruise joined the Hamilton Firm in 2005, focusing on personal injury, automobile negligence, workers’ compensation, Social Security disability, long term disability, and premises liability cases.
Mr. Cruise also serves as an arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau and has served as an adjunct faculty member at Chattanooga State Technical Community College teaching classes on Criminal Law and American Government.
- Louisiana State University, J.D. 2001
- Pacific University, B.A. 1998
- American Bar Association
- American Association for Justice
- Tennessee Association for Justice
- Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
- National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives.
Mr. Cruise was published in the Winter 2009 edition of Tennessee Trial Lawyer magazine, Ruminations on Overstreet, concerning ex parte communications by the employer with treating physicians, and has presented on the issue of workers’ compensation for the Tennessee Association for Justice.
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