Patrick E. Hobbs

Who is Patrick E. Hobbs?

Patrick E. Hobbs was named the dean of the Seton Hall University School of Law in 1999. He previously served as a professor of law at the Law School as well as associate dean of finance from 1996 to 1999. He is an elected fellow of the American Bar Association and co-chair of the American Bar Association Development Committee.

Hobbs was born 29 March 1960 in Orange, New Jersey. Hobbs received a B.S. magna cum laude from Seton Hall University in 1982, a J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1985 and an L.L.M. from New York University in 1988.

In private practice, Hobbs was an associate at Hannoch Weisman and Shanley & Fisher. Hobbs has been with Seton Hall Law School since 1990. He also served as a member of the boards of the Newark Alliance, Lexis-Nexis, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, the New Jersey Commission of Professionalism and the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education.