Patti Vannoy has practiced with Mattson Ricketts for 15 years, where she focuses her practice on investors’ rights and insurance issues.  She has represented more than 400 clients with claims involving private placements, real estate investment trusts, variable annuities, life insurance, and all manner of securities, including cases against broker-dealers, registered investment advisers, insurers, and clearing firms.  She has also led work on bad faith claims related to the financial services industry, against both errors and omissions and directors and officers insurers, and has represented several whistleblowers seeking protection under the Dodd-Frank Act and Sarbanes-Oxley.  

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Patti also enjoys a general civil practice, which includes general civil litigation, contract negotiation, real estate, estate planning, and advising startup and small businesses.

Patti served a 6-year term as a Commissioner on the Nebraska Commission of Industrial Relations, and serves as an independent, neutral arbitrator for labor, workplace, and commercial disputes. She is available to parties by direct appointment, and nationally and internationally through the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and a number of state, local and territorial agencies and other private rosters in labor, contracts, consumer and employment matters. In 2023, Patti was appointed to a 3-year term on the FINRA National Arbitration and Mediation Committee, which advises FINRA Dispute Resolution on all aspects of its arbitration and mediation forums.

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Education:

• 2009 University of Nebraska College of Law, J.D. with distinction

• 2005 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, B.J. with highest distinction

Licensed:

• Nebraska state and federal courts

• Colorado state courts

• Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

Honors & Awards:

• Nebraska Law Review

• University of Nebraska College of Law Moot Court Board

• Phi Beta Kappa

Selected Involvement:​

• Leadership Nebraska Class VII

• Leadership Lincoln Fellows XXVI

• Leadership Lincoln Board of Directors

• Alpha Phi Nu Chapter Advisory Board

• Robert Van Pelt American Inn of Court

• Nebraska State Bar Association

  • Natural Resources Section Executive Committee, Past Chair

  • Securities Section Executive Committee, Vice-Chair

  • Labor Relations and Employment Law Section

• Colorado Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section

• Labor and Employment Relations Association, Chicago Chapter

• Rocky Mountain Labor and Employment Relations Association

Selected Publications & Presentations:

• R.I.P.: The Federal Common Law Waiver Approach to Retirement Plan Death Benefits Finally Rests in Peace After Kennedy v. Plan Administrator for DuPont Savings & Investment Plan, 497 F.3d 426 (5th Cir. 2007), aff’d 129 S. Ct. 865 (2009), 88 Neb. L. Rev. 204 (2009)

• Will Aitchison, et al., Interest Arbitration (Patricia Vannoy et al. eds., 3d ed. 2022)