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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:
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.
Stanford University - 2012 Juris Doctor
Stanford University - 2007 Bachelor of Arts
California Bar