Domestic and International Cross Border Practice of Law (Audio Only)

Patrick H. Stiehm is in solo practice, under the name Stiehm Law Office. His major areas of practice are commercial finance and representing the left behind parent in international child kidnapping cases, under the Hague Convention on that subject and under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act in both state and federal court, 

throughout the United States. He has handled Hague Convention cases that have furthered the purposes of the Convention and refined the law governing the Convention here in the United States. Typical examples of which are: Escaf v. Rodriquez, 200 F. Supp. 2d 603, (Eastern District of Virginia, 2002) and Ly v. Heu, 294 F. Supp. 2nd 1026 (District of Minnesota, 2003).

Mr. Stiehm is a former District Attorney (Wisconsin), SBA District Counsel (Arizona and Washington, DC) and General Counsel for a publicly traded commercial finance company. He has been an instructor in the United States Attorney General's Trial Advocacy Course, and a CLE Instructor, at the various venues throughout the United States. He has been a featured speaker on legal matters at various trade meetings and seminars involving the commercial finance industry. He has also authored articles in various commercial finance trade publications and in legal publications, including an article for foreign lawyers on Hague Convention practices in the United States.

His undergraduate degree is from the University of St. Thomas in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. His JD is from the University of  Minnesota Law School. He is licensed to practice law in a number of jurisdictions including the District of Columbia.