Kirk A. Patrick is a retired partner of the international law firm of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Mr. Patrick was born and raised in the Midwest, attended Iowa State University and the University of Minnesota Law School where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. Mr. Patrick was an editor of the Minnesota Law Review and Order of the Coif. After graduating in 1974, he joined Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles where he practiced for 40 years, specializing in commercial litigation, with a concentration in group and individual health insurance issues and class action litigation.