Peter is a trial attorney and shareholder who represents law firms, attorneys, businesses and individuals in two areas of concentration: professional negligence, professional disciplinary and ethics consultation matters for the legal profession; and environmental regulatory and litigation matters, including the defense of environmental criminal investigations and prosecutions. With over thirty years of experience in representing the State of New Hampshire, the federal government, businesses, law firms and lawyers in northern New England, Peter's practice now focuses on the most complex and demanding professional responsibility and commercial litigation matters.

Peter is Co-Chair of Devine's Attorney Conduct & Liability Practice Group. He testifies as an expert witness on standard-of-care and ethical issues. He writes and lectures frequently before bar association gatherings, provides regular training and advice within the firm on risk management issues, and is listed in Woodward/White's Best Lawyers in America (2006-2009) in New Hampshire in the field of legal malpractice litigation. Peter is an active member of the New Hampshire Bar Association's Ethics Committee; a member of the Public Statements Committee of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers; and Co-Chair of Programming for the Committee on Professionalism and Ethics of the Defense Research Institute. Peter received the 2008 New Hampshire Bar Association’s E. Donald Dufresne Award for Outstanding Professionalism.

Peter's environmental experience includes four years as director of the federal Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Criminal Enforcement and extensive environmental trial work for the United States Department of Justice and the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office. He represents businesses in connection with administrative, civil and criminal enforcement matters, and provides advice in transactions involving the liabilities associated with the acquisition and development of contaminated properties. Peter has been listed in Woodward/White;s Best Lawyers in America (2005-2009) in New Hampshire in the field of environmental law.

EDUCATION:

Cornell University School of Law, Juris Doctor (Magna Cum Laude), 1975
Yale University, Bachelor of Arts, 1967

BAR ADMISSIONS:

New Hampshire
Vermont
Washington (inactive)
District of Columbia (inactive)