Robert M. Patten, Attorney at Law

Patten, LLC is a law firm located in downtown Summerville, Georgia. My major practice areas are Criminal Defense and Family Law, and we also prepare Wills, Power of Attorney, Medical Directives, and handle related matters. I am a sole practitioner dedicated to providing professional excellence to my clients and the practice of law. In preparation for such dedication, I earned degrees from The Univ

ersity of Alabama School of law (J.D.), Appalachian State University (M.A., Political Science - International Relations and Comparative Politics), and Auburn University (Double Major - B.A., Political Science, B.A., Spanish). I have worked on factory floors, done landscape construction and maintenance at residential, commercial, and collegiate athletic levels, worked in restaurants, hotels, retail stores, worked as a traveling researcher on Alabama tax projects, and labored on a Colorado trail crew for the United States Forest Service. Prior to establishing my own law firm, I worked as an associate attorney with Kenneth D. Bruce, LLC (formerly Bruce & Thompson) after Don Thompson was appointed by Governor Nathan Deal as Superior Court Judge in the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit. Bruce, he worked as an associate attorney with the Office of the Public Defender in the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit for more than seven years, gaining extensive experience defending people charged with all manner of misdemeanors and all manner of felonies, from DUI to drugs, theft, s*x, and violence.