Patterson named a 'Top 5 Under 35' attorney

Christopher Patterson, an attorney with the Okemos-based law firm, Fahey Schultz Burzych Rhodes PLC, is recognized as one of the “Top 5” attorneys under the age of 35 in Ingham County for 2017.

Award recipients, selected by the Board of Directors of the Ingham County Bar Association, were recognized at the ICBA Annual Barristers Night in late March. The Board of Directors made its selection based upon commendable character, integrity, judgment and legal scholarship; service to the profession and the Bar; service to the community; and reputation for the advancement of the highest legal standards and professional responsibility.

Patterson joined Fahey Schultz Burzych Rhodes PLC in 2013, after serving a two-year appointment as judicial law clerk for the Honorable Lawrence P. Zatkoff in the Federal District Court in Port Huron. A 2010 magna cum laude graduate of Michigan State University College of Law, where he wrote for the Law Review and received a merit scholarship, Patterson is highly active in municipal law and commercial and real property law.