Patrick Maroney is the President of Maroney Consulting Services LLC, which provides expert witness testimony related to dram shop cases. He provides training and consultation for Colorado liquor laws and rules; trade practices laws and rules; retail, wholesale and supplier compliance and licensing in Colorado and is certified as a Colorado Responsible Vendor Trainer.

He has over 33 years of law enforcement experience and was the Chief of Investigations and the Director of the Colorado Liquor Enforcement Division. Mr. Maroney’s experience includes working for the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office (Fort Collins, Colorado), Arapahoe County (Colorado) Coroner’s Office, and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.

Patrick instructed numerous training classes on Colorado liquor laws and rules and provided official interpretations of Colorado liquor laws and rules to liquor stakeholders, legislators and licensees. He testified before the Colorado Legislature on numerous occasions as an expert in Liquor Law and Rules.

Patrick was elected to the Board Directors of the National Conference of State Liquor Administrators and served on many panels that discussed liquor issues of nationwide concern.

He was appointed to the Colorado Task Force on Drunk and Impaired Driving, as an expert in liquor law. The task force was established by the Colorado General Assembly in 2006 to generate more collaboration and consensus for effective solutions to the impaired driving problem in Colorado.