Peter Squeri is a senior associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where his practice focuses on consumer and employment class actions and other complex commercial litigation.  Peter represents clients in a variety of industries—including technology, consumer products, energy, logistics, and health care—in state and federal courts throughout the country, and in arbitration and mediation.  He frequently works with clients to address multifaceted and novel legal issues—often at the intersection of litigation, regulation, and public policy—and has extensive experience developing risk-mitigation strategies and guiding clients through crisis situations.  He has been selected as a Northern California Rising Star in the Class Action/Mass Torts category by Super Lawyers in 2021 and 2022.

Peter has substantial experience representing public and private companies in product liability actions, independent contractor misclassification litigation, sensitive internal investigations, and employment disputes, including wage-and-hour, retaliation, and wrongful termination matters.   His practice also includes trade secret misappropriation litigation, founders’ disputes, contract disputes, and other high-stakes cases involving alleged fraud, business torts, privacy, and unfair competition.  Peter has experience in all phases of litigation—including both bench and jury trials in state and federal courts—and alternative dispute resolution.

Peter also has experience representing companies and individuals under investigation by federal and state law enforcement agencies and regulators, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and state attorneys general.  He has prepared founders, CEOs, and other executives to testify at depositions, trials, and congressional hearings.

Recent engagements include:

• Defending leading technology, mobility, and gig economy companies in putative and certified class actions, as well as representative actions brought under the California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), arising from allegations that drivers who use smartphone applications to accept on-demand ride or delivery requests are misclassified as independent contractors.
• Defending an information technology company in putative class actions alleging violations of California’s consumer protection laws, including the Unfair Competition Law (UCL or Section 17200), False Advertising Law (FAL), Consumers Legal Remedies Act (CLRA), and Automatic Renewal Law (ARL).
• Defending a consumer products company in hundreds of putative class actions and individual actions, including multidistrict litigation (MDL), alleging product defects and violations of consumer protection laws.
• Representing a consumer products company in investigations and inquiries brought by state attorneys general, congressional committees, and independent federal agencies.
• Defending an online rental marketplace against statutory and tort law challenges before the California Court of Appeal.
• Defending a major healthcare provider in a False Claims Act (FCA) investigation involving allegations of unnecessary surgical procedures.
• Obtaining cross-border discovery under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 on behalf of an organization based in Hong Kong.
• Defending an energy company against claims arising from an industrial accident.
• Representing a leading footwear and apparel company in trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, and business tort litigation related to the departure of three former employees.
• Defending physician trade associations and their officers and directors in litigation alleging federal and state antitrust, tort, and unfair competition claims.
• Defending a post-acute healthcare services provider in connection with civil and criminal FCA investigations by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the DOJ.

Peter maintains an active pro bono practice that focuses primarily on veterans’ rights and youth advocacy.  In recent years, he has achieved increased service-connected compensation for veterans, obtained permanent restraining orders on behalf of domestic violence survivors, and successfully resolved matters involving eviction and constitutional torts under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

Peter received his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was an Articles Editor of the Stanford Law Review.  He served as an extern law clerk for Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.  Prior to law school, he earned a B.A. in English, with distinction, and a minor in history from Stanford University in 2007, and was an investment associate at Cambridge Associates LLC.

Peter currently serves on the Pro Bono Advisory Board of Swords to Plowshares and is a member of the Edward J. McFetridge American Inn of Court.  He is admitted to practice law in the State of California, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  He is also accredited to practice before the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

He is a lifelong resident of San Francisco.