Personal Experience

Patrick E. Sovereign is a member of Beus Gilbert McGroder PLLC, a premier boutique law firm concentrating on High Stakes Litigation, Real Estate and Zoning Law, and Plaintiffs Catastrophic Injury & Wrongful Death. Mr. Sovereign is a member of the firm’s Real Estate and Zoning practice.

Mr. Sovereign’s practice is focused on real estate and business transactions. His broad-based transactional practice involves the acquisition and disposition of commercial real estate including negotiating and drafting purchase agreements, conducting appropriate due diligence, negotiating and drafting commercial leases, negotiating and drafting partnership and limited liability company agreements, and real estate-based lending transactions. He currently manages a large real estate portfolio with properties in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Mexico. The portfolio is comprised of various product types ranging from large vacant parcels, telecommunications sites, improved commercial property, large master planned residential properties, and properties with mineable natural resources.

Admissions

Supreme Court of the State of Arizona

Education

University of Phoenix – B.S., Business Administration, 1997
California Western School of Law – J.D., cum laude, 2000
Staff Editor and Contributing Author, California Western Law Review
Appellate Oral Advocacy Competition Finalist
Recipient of Scriba Regs Award for Recognition of Excellence in Writing, Analysis, and Contribution to Legal Scholarship

Memberships & Activities

American Bar Association

Arizona State Bar Association

Maricopa County Bar Association

J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Phoenix Chapter

Publications

United States v. Dickerson, Will It Be The Proverbial Straw That Breaks Miranda’s Back, 36 Cal. W.L. Rev. 195 (1999)

Community & Philanthropy

Board Member (Current President) of the Circle G at Silver Creek Homeowners Association (2008 – Present)

President and Director, East Valley Elite Lacrosse Club, Arizona, 2008 -2010

President of Student Chapter, J. Reuben Clark Law Society, San Diego, 1998-1999

Missionary, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1987-1989