Patrick Steven Moody

Patrick S. Moody is a shareholder with Barsamian & Moody, a law firm solely dedicated to representing employers. Mr. Moody provides the firm’s management clientele with solutions and advice for complying with the numerous statutes and regulations relating to labor and employment law, from day to day employment law counselling, up to large scale class action wage and hour litigation, as well as the intricacies of handling union organizing campaigns and working within the confines of collective bargaining agreements. He has represented employers before most state and federal administrative agencies, in judicial and labor grievance arbitrations, as well as in both state and federal trial and appellate courts.

Mr. Moody earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Florida, and his J.D. degree, with honors, from the California Western School of Law, where he served as a Staff Writer and was on the Executive Board of the California Western Law Review and the California Western International Law Journal. He was admitted to the California State Bar in 1991 and is also admitted to practice before all United States District Courts in California, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. He has been awarded Martindale-Hubbell’s AV rating, the highest attorney rating awarded.

Mr. Moody has served on the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Personnel Management Association, AgSafe and the Fresno County Employers Advisory Counsel.

Mr. Moody frequently speaks on many different topics related to labor and employment law, regularly contributes articles to a wide variety of publications, and is the author of several regularly published columns on topics relevant to employers.