Peter’s experience includes:
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Representing a crypto-asset investment company seeking to enforce its profit-sharing agreement with a large online lending platform.
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Counsel for individual crypto-asset investor in criminal and civil proceedings stemming from software bug on the blockchain.
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Representing a private investor in a securities fraud arbitration against a blockchain identity verification startup.
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Representing a bondholder in fraudulent transfer and unlawful distribution actions against the owners of a Spanish language media company.
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Defending a large national retailer in a sex discrimination class action involving over one million alleged class members.
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Representing law firms in cases filed by the bankruptcy estates of other defunct law firms seeking to claw back fees from unfinished business of their former partners.
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Member of the plaintiff’s trial team in the historic 2008 lawsuit successfully challenging the Constitutionality of California’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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Stanford Law School, J.D.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., Philosophy
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Princeton University, A.B., Philosophy
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The Causal Mechanism Theory of Legal Causation, Ratio Juris 34 (1):57-73 (2021)
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Why the Assignability of Intellectual Property Licenses in Bankruptcy Might Not be Settled After All, ABI Law Review, 25:315-326 (2017)
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California
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U.S. Court of Appeals: Ninth Circuit
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U.S. Court of Appeals: Second Circuit
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U.S. District Court: Northern District of California
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U.S. District Court: Central District of California
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U.S. District Court: Northern District of Illinois