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Peter has been in practice since 1960. He is a courtroom lawyer and handles matters from traffic cases to arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court. He was elected State’s Attorney of Addison County in 1960, just months after graduating from the University of Chicago Law School. Since then he has been involved in virtually every type of trial. Two murder cases, a police brutality case, and an appeal were carried on Court TV. He twice argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on environmental class actions and has represented a class of riparian owners in a Sitka, Alaska environmental class action.

Peter is currently serving as Vice President of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, where he is also serving on a Study Committee on the Misuse of Genetic Material and chairing a drafting committee on the Uniform Agricultural Cooperative Act. He has previously served on the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association, and as Chair of the Section of Individual Rights & Responsibilities, and is currently the Vermont State Delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates. He is the author of two books, Addison County Justice (Eriksson 1997) and Beyond The Courthouse (Eriksson 1999), and numerous legal articles.

At heart Peter is a farmer. At one time he had a dairy farm, and he is currently living on a farm six miles south of Middlebury where he raises dairy replacements, beef cattle, Clun Forrest sheep, Standardbred horses, and other Old MacDonald characters. Besides his love for trout fishing and bird hunting (he has three English Setters), he races Standardbred trotters (but no longer drives them) at Saratoga Raceway and at Vermont fairs. His current passion is doing Impressionist-style oil paintings.