Community Involvement
Patterson Thuente IP promotes a plethora of volunteer opportunities to help our employees participate in contributing to the welfare of society. Attorneys are encouraged to get involved in their community and receive billable hour credit for providing volunteer pro bono legal assistance. Patterson Thuente IP also allows all regular, full-time employees to spend one standard, paid workday per year volunteering with a 501(c)(3) organization.
Our group opportunities change year-to-year, but some organizations we have supported in the past include:
- The Food Group
- Catholic Charities’ Giving Tree
- Minneapolis Recreation Development
- Retrieve a Golden of the Midwest
- Roots for the Home Team
As a firm, we aspire to support initiatives that create success through science and the arts. We have supported the National Inventors Hall of Fame’s Camp Invention for many years, as well as ComMUSICation and The Works Museum locally.
We also support access to justice for underrepresented members of our communities through: