Patrick F. Fischer is a partner with Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, one of the largest law firms in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Fischer’s practice is concentrated in the field of commercial litigation with an emphasis on financial/banking litigation, securities and antitrust litigation, complex class actions, ERISA litigation, and related class actions. He has litigated matters in Ohio, Kentucky, New York, New Jersey, California, Texas, Colorado, Illinois, Alabama, and Oklahoma, and before numerous federal district and circuit courts throughout the country, including the Sixth and Tenth Circuits. Mr. Fischer is a frequent advisor to lawyers on legal ethics matters, and he is a regular speaker on ethics and lawyer professionalism. Mr. Fischer has served as vice-chair of the Ohio Supreme Court’s Commission on Professionalism. He is also the author of numerous presentations and publications. The Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court appointed Mr. Fischer as co-chair of Ohio’s Task Force on Commercial Dockets; this committee initiated a pilot program for a special set of trial courts to hear business-to-business disputes throughout Ohio. Among many other honors and recognitions, Mr. Fischer is AV Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell; he has been named to the Ohio Super Lawyers? by Law & Politics (2004-2009); he was named one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Ohio and one of the Top 50 Lawyers in Cincinnati by Cincinnati Magazine (2007-2008). Mr. Fischer is a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1983) and Harvard College (A.B., cum laude, 1980). He served as a law clerk to the Honorable William O. Bertelsman, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.