Patrick Mendes is a Co-Founder and Consultant for Apex Defense Consulting (ADC), where he focuses on helping defense teams nationwide integrate The Apex into their strategy through meaningful partnership and training. With decades of experience guiding insurers and corporations through complex cases, Mr. Mendes brings a pragmatic and relational approach to his consulting work — bridging the gap between carrier and counsel with unparalleled expertise and insight into the business of insurance defense.
At ADC, Mr. Mendes steers vision and collaboration to help attorneys and carriers to diagnose the cause of Nuclear Verdicts® and leverage proven strategies to stop them at every stage of prelitigation, litigation, and trial. His ability to distill complex litigation challenges into actionable defense strategies makes him a trusted advisor to legal and insurance leaders seeking measurable results in high-stakes environments.
In addition to his work at ADC, Mr. Mendes is a Founding Partner of national insurance defense trial law firm Tyson & Mendes and serves as the Chief Legal Strategy Officer for Schaefer City Technologies, a pioneering Insurtech company leveraging AI to identify and stop Nuclear Verdicts® before they happen. His experience defending businesses, design professionals, and insurers forms the foundation of his consulting practice, helping others achieve the same results through disciplined, evidence-based methods.
Mr. Mendes’ work at ADC centers on a single mission: empowering defense professionals with the proven, data-backed strategies needed to stop Nuclear Verdicts® and deliver justice in every case.
