Pennsylvania Attorney Sudhir R. Patel

During the course of his 30-year legal career, Attorney Sud Patel has distinguished himself both inside and outside courtrooms across Pennsylvania. He is one of a handful of trial lawyers who have secured multiple million dollar-plus civil verdicts and settlements along with multiple felony acquittals in criminal jury trials. Sud’s accomplishments as a skilled trial lawyer are highlighted by several million-dollar verdicts in Schuylkill and Berks County medical malpractice cases. He has also successfully litigated numerous construction cases to verdict. Beyond trial verdicts, year-after-year, he has secured numerous settlements for injured victims in car crash, truck crash, medical malpractice and nursing home neglect cases. His successes as a civil trial lawyer have earned him memberships in the national Million Dollar and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

Outside the courtroom, Sud has served as the President of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice (PAJ), a statewide organization made up of nearly 2,000 trial lawyers who focus on representing injured victims. He has been a long-time member of the PAJ’s Board of Governors and Executive Committee, and is currently a Trustee for LAWPAC, PAJ’s political action committee. Sud has been the only lawyer from Schuylkill County to serve a President of PAJ. He has also lectured numerous times at continuing education seminars for PAJ and other trial lawyer organizations. Sud has been a long-standing member of the American Association for Justice and has also moderated continuing education programs for AAJ and been a featured speaker at AAJ’s annual summer conference in Denver, Colorado.

Local to Schuylkill County, Sud has served as the President of the Schuylkill County Bar Association, along with being a Board of Directors member. He has organized annual coat drives and canned food drives for the Schuylkill County Bar Association. Over a decade ago, he helped start the Schuylkill County Bar Association’s Alternative Dispute Resolution program, through which dozens of civil cases have been resolved expeditiously and in a most cost- effective manner through mediation and arbitration.

For close to a decade now, Sud has also served as a mediator for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. In his role as a Mediator for the Federal Court system, Sud has successfully helped resolve numerous civil cases for litigants throughout eastern and central Pennsylvania. Sud has been selected privately as a mediator, through which he has resolved several cases in excess of $1 million dollars and has quickly gained the trust and respect of trial lawyers representing injured victims as well as insurance companies.

Sud has served as the Solicitor/Lawyer for the Blue Mountain School District, the Schuylkill County Municipal Authority, the Schuylkill County Controller’s Office, and several other boroughs and municipalities. He has also been hired as special counsel by several local school districts, especially in the area of construction litigation. He has been a frequent lecturer at numerous school districts throughout Schuylkill County, where his lectures have focused on issues ranging from teenage distracted driving to effective public speaking and the dangers of social media misuse. Year-after-year, his charitable generosity individually and through the Firm benefits numerous police departments, volunteer fire fighter organizations, numerous youth sports teams/leagues, and a wide array of charitable causes and organizations.

Sud has been instrumental in the growth of Fanelli, Evans & Patel, which now runs offices in Schuylkill, Northumberland and Berks Counties.