Bar Admissions: 
New York State Bar, New York, July 2001

U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York 2003 and Eastern District of New York 2002

Law School: Hofstra University School of Law, J.D.

College: Long Island University, C.W. Post 

Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Discrimination; Age Discrimination; Employee Discipline; Employee Rights; Employment Law; Affirmative Action; Age Discrimination in Employment; Civil Service; Collective Bargaining; Child Labor Law; Confidentiality Agreements; Covenants Not To Compete; Employee Drug Testing; Employee Leasing; Employee Privacy; Employer Intentional Torts; Employer Liability; Employer Rights; Employment Arbitration; Employment at Will; Employment Breach of Contract; Employment Civil Rights; Employment Claims; Employment Class Actions; Employment Contracts; Employment Defense; Employment Disability Discrimination; Employment Discrimination; Employment Litigation; Employment Mediation; Employment Practices Liability Insurance; Employment Rights; Employment Termination; Equal Employment Opportunity Law; Executive Employment Law; Executive Severance Contracts; Executive Transfers; Fair Employment Practices; Fair Labor Standards; Family and Medical Leave Act; Federal Employment Law; Harassment; International Employment Contracts; International Labor Law; Labor Antitrust; Labor Arbitration; Labor Law; Labor Legislation; Labor Relations; Labor Strikes; Management Employment Law; Management Labor Law; National Labor Relations Act; National Origin Discrimination; Negligent Hiring; Non-compete Litigation; Noncompetition and Non-Solicitation Agreements; Outsourcing; Personnel Policies; Personnel Training; Prevailing Wage Litigation; Public Sector Collective Bargaining; Public Sector Employment Law; Public Sector Labor Relations; Reductions in Force; Restrictive Covenants; Retaliatory Discharge; Security Clearances; Sexual Harassment; Title VII Discrimination; Unfair Labor Practices; Uniformed Services Employment; and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA); Union Contract Negotiations; Union Elections; Union Labor Law; Union Organization; Wage and Hour Law; WARN Act; Whistleblower Litigation; Workplace Violence; Wrongful Termination; Wrongful Termination Defense.

Personal Background: From 2001 until 2010, Peter worked as a Deputy County Attorney in the Labor Bureau at the Nassau County Attorney’s Office. Peter took on a large and diverse labor and employment caseload in which he defended the County of Nassau and its agencies against cases involving racial, ethnic, sexual, religious, age, military, disability discrimination, OSHA and FMLA matters, as well as cases involving retaliation and collective bargaining contract disputes. Peter has handled cases from inception through trial, and has appeared before the New York State Unemployment Insurance Board, the New York State Division of Human Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as well as New York and the Southern and Eastern District Federal Courts. From 2010 to 2011, Peter worked as a Plaintiff’s attorney and Senior Associate for Leeds, Morelli and Brown PC in Carle Place, NY. 

Peter was born and raised in Nassau County and currently resides in Suffolk County with his wife and 3 boys.