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Experience:
Peter Morris is a litigator whose practice focuses primarily on white-collar defense, complex business litigation, healthcare matters and securities litigation.
Peter joined Mayer Brown in 2007. Previously, he was a founding partner of another law firm and, earlier, held senior positions with two other firms. From 1994 to 1996, Peter held a full-time faculty appointment with the School of Law of the University of California at Los Angeles. He also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the US Attorney’s Office (1989-1991). Peter is AV Peer Review Rated.
Notable Engagements:
White Collar Criminal Defense
Represent current and former executives of Broadcom in federal criminal and SEC investigations into options pricing practices.
Represent a major Greek shipping company in a federal criminal case involving the discharge of pollutants into US waters.
Represent an officer of Homestore in federal criminal and SEC cases involving a scheme to inflate on-line advertising revenues through a series of fraudulent round-trip transactions.
Represent physicians in federal criminal and FTC cases involving fraudulent representations regarding nutritional products.
Represent the target of a federal criminal case involving Milberg Weiss's secret, illegal payments to plaintiffs in securities class-action lawsuits.
Civil Business and Tort Litigation
Represent plaintiffs in litigation against insurance companies for unlawful termination of professional disability policies.
Represent major health care insurance companies in litigation against physicians for fraudulent billing practices.
Represent plaintiffs and defendants in civil fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, securities fraud and other complex business litigation.
Education:
Harvard Law School, JD, cum laude, 1986; Managing Editor, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Cornell University, AB, cum laude, with distinction, 1983; Phi Beta Kappa. | 