Attorney Profile

Patrick M. Rogan

General Information

Attorney Patrick M. Rogan has nearly twenty years experience defending, with a record of success, against felony and misdemeanor charges in federal, state, county, magistrate and juvenile courts.  These include the federal courts of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as the state courts of Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Wayne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wyoming and Carbon counties.  He has been admitted to practice before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

Attorney Rogan’s criminal defense practice conveniently is located in Scranton, PA, with access to all courts of northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA) and the Pocono Mountain region.  With his main office near the federal courthouse and near the Lackawanna County courthouse, and with satellite offices in the Poconos, attorney Rogan easily accesses all courts in Scranton, Carbondale, Wilkes-Barre, Hazelton, Pittston, Stroudsburg, East Stroudsburg, Mount Pocono, Tunkhannock, Honesdale, Montrose, Milford and Jim Thorpe, in Lackawanna County, Luzerne County, Monroe County, Wyoming County, Wayne County, Susquehanna County, Pike County and Carbon County.

Attorney Rogan was born and raised in Lackawanna County, PA, and currently lives in Clarks Summit, PA, with his wife, Julia K. Munley, a trial lawyer with the law firm of Munley, Munley and Cartwright and the daughter of United States District Court Judge James M. Munley

Attorney Rogan earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in communications/English at the University of Scranton in Scranton, PA and his Juris Doctorate degree at the University of Miami School of Law in Miami, FL.  He previously worked in the prosecutor’s office of Fort Lauderdale, FL and in the public defender’s office of Lackawanna County, PA.

Points of Distinction

In addition to having received the March of Dimes Service Award, the Operation Overcome Appreciation Award, the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America Outstanding Service to Children Award and the Parents’ Magazine Service to Community Award, attorney Patrick M. Rogan has a long history of professional leadership.

Attorney Rogan has served as chair of the criminal law section of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA).  AAJ is the world’s largest trial bar with more than 56,000 members worldwide.  It provides trial lawyers with information and professional assistance to serve clients successfully and to protect the values inherent in the civil and criminal justice system. 

Over one thousand of the best trial lawyers nationwide attended the AAJ convention in Seattle, WA, when attorney Rogan was elected chair of the criminal law section; several hundred of those attended the criminal law section meeting and unanimously selected attorney Rogan for the distinguished chair position, including the attorney who successfully defended singer Michael Jackson from criminal charges at trial.

As chair of AAJ’s criminal law section, attorney Rogan participated in the criminal law continuing legal education seminars at AAJ’s conventions in Miami, FL, Chicago, IL, Philadelphia, PA, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Attorney Patrick M. Rogan maintains impeccable ethical standards. 

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Attorney Rogan ranks high by such measures.  His rating reveals his consistent adherence to professional standards of conduct, ethics, reliability and diligence.  His Martindale status makes a definitive statement about his superior ability and unquestionable integrity.

Putting Rogan Law to Work for You 

After nearly twenty years as a criminal defense attorney, and after representing thousands of people investigated for or charged with a crime – felony and misdemeanor, federal and state – attorney Patrick M. Rogan has learned that prosecutors secure convictions by using what people have told investigators or police far more frequently than by using physical or identification evidence.

U.S. attorneys, district attorneys, state attorney generals, detectives, police, state police, FBI, DEA, postal inspectors and bank inspectors might say they just want to talk with you, that you do not need an attorney or a lawyer.  But you have no obligation to talk to anyone, not even to law enforcement.  If law enforcement wants to talk with you, then you should first consult an experienced criminal lawyer or criminal attorney.

Persons under investigation or arrest often think that they can talk their way out of the situation and that they can persuade the police they had nothing to do with the crime. They want to avoid the cost of a lawyer.  However, persons under investigation or arrest should consider the value of their liberty and freedom, which far outweighs any attorney fee.  The cost of an experienced criminal defense attorney pales in comparison to the prospect of imprisonment.

Attorney Patrick M. Rogan will put his education, experience and winning trial record to work for you.  He will return your phone calls because he wants to communicate with you in order to provide a strong, fighting strategy for your defense.  He will not rest until he has explored every available legal option on your behalf.  No problem is too urgent or complex for him.  No one will work harder for you.  Because at Rogan Law your defense never rests.

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