Carol Patterson

Carol Patterson is managing partner of the Moscow office of Baker & McKenzie law firm, and co-managing partner of the CIS offices of the

firm including St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Baku and Almaty. She has worked as  a lawyer in the Moscow office since 1990, with the exception of four

years from 2000-2004 in the Toronto office of Baker & McKenzie.

Before and after going to Dalhousie Law School in Halifax, Carol did undergraduate and graduate studies in Russian history and

language - half a year in Moscow in 1979 at the Pushkin Language Institute and a year in London in 1980 at the University of London.