About me
Patrick Miles Jr. is a partner based in the Grand Rapids office of the 800-plus attorney national law firm Barnes & Thornburg LLP. Mr. Miles focuses his law practice on corporate compliance, investigations, federal equity receiverships, monitorships, and business law as well as transactions. He is a full member of NAFER having served as a federal equity receiver in the Eastern District of Michigan. He has served as a monitor and has led numerous investigations of companies, government agencies, higher education institutions, and healthcare organizations. He also works on the team assisting the Special Compliance Coordinator appointed by the U.S. Department of Commerce to monitor, assess and report on the U.S. export control compliance of Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation, of Shenzhen, China, and ZTE Kangxun Telecommunications Ltd. of Hi-New Shenzhen, China (collectively, ZTE).
Mr. Miles served as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan from July 9, 2012 to January 20, 2017 covering 49 of Michigan’s 83 counties and 11 federally recognized Native American Tribes. Prior to his time in public service, Mr. Miles spent 21 years in private practice for large law firms in Grand Rapids, where he counseled clients on entity formation, equity and debt financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, minority and woman-owned business formation, financing and certification, contracts, and Michigan liquor licensing. He also represented local governments nationwide in connection with telecommunications provider public right-of-way management and litigation, cable television franchising, rate regulation and customer service, cellular antenna leases, as well as Federal Communications Commission litigation, rulemakings and proceedings.
[OPTIONAL: Mr. Miles served as president of the Grand Rapids Bar Association from 2004 to 2005 and as a trustee from 1999-2002. He was named a Notable Attorney by Crain’s West Michigan Business in 2023 and has been recognized on Michigan’s Super Lawyers list since 2006. He received the 2005 Outstanding Young Michigander Award from the Michigan Jaycees, the 1996 State Bar of Michigan Outstanding Young Lawyer Award and a number of other awards from the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce, West Michigan United Way, NAACP and the Grand Rapids Jaycees. He also was named to the Grand Rapids Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 business leaders in 2002, 2005 and 2007. Mr. Miles was the first president of the Grand Rapids Black Chamber of Commerce from 2011-2012. He has also served more than two dozen charitable and professional boards and committees, including serving 18 years and a term as chairman on the board of trustees of Aquinas College Mr. Miles currently serves on the Corewell Health—West Foundation Board of Trustees and as vice chair of the Hope Network Board of Directors.]
Mr. Miles was a 2023 Saginaw Valley State University commencement speaker and received an honorary doctorate of humanities from that university. He is a frequent author and speaker to professional audiences on legal issues, professionalism, diversity and inclusion and to youth audiences about leadership and service.
Mr. Miles is admitted to practice in all Michigan courts and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.