Attorney Profile

Kristan Peters is admitted in five states and to eleven federal bars and has litigated in thirty states in cases involving employment, tort, defamation, criminal, commercial and constitutional law in both single plaintiff and class action lawsuits. 

Peters has thirty-seven published decisions in her name, has tried dozens of cases to verdict, has written over fifty appellate briefs and has had forty appellate arguments.

Kristan served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington D.C. for nearly six years, in both the Criminal and Civil Divisions.  In the Civil Division, she defended the United States and its departments and agencies in discrimination complaints.  Prior to law school, Kristan worked as an analyst in the Labor Relations Department of the international division of Shell Oil ("Pecten International") in Houston, Texas, and Douala, Cameroon. She has lived in four countries and speaks four languages.

Education

Cornell University
B.S. with honors, Industrial and Labor Relations, minor in romance languages, 1982

University of Texas School of Law
J.D., 1987
Symposium Editor, Texas International Law Journal
Published law review note:  “The Impact of Islamic Revivalism on Contract and Riba Law in Saudi Arabia Egypt and Iran.”

Admissions

• State Bars:  New York,   District of Columbia,    Connecticut,   Maryland,   Pennsylvania (inactive)
• Federal Bars:   U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth and District of Columbia Circuits; U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York,
  the District of Connecticut, District of Maryland, District of Colorado and District of Columbia

Honors

• Recognized as a "New York Super Lawyer," Magazine of Law and Politics (2006 and 2007)      
• Asked by the Justice Department to serve on the Rwanda War Crimes Tribunal in 1995

Presentations

• "Four Years After SOX: Where Are We? A Review of SOX Retaliation Cases," Associate of Corporate Counsel of America (ACCA), New York, NY (June 2006)
  
• "Retaliation and Whistle Blowing Under Sarbanes-Oxley," South Texas College of Law Advance Civil trial Law Conference, Houston, Texas (February 2006)
  
• "Negligent Hiring and Retention," Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, Northeast Chapter, New York, NY (2004)
  
• Course Instructor on trade secrets law, corporate espionage and employment discrimination and harassment, Maryland Chamber of Commerce, MIB, JREC, and Maryland In-House Corporate Counsel Association
  
• "Trade Secrets," CLE Marathon, Pillsbury Winthrop, New York, NY (2004)
  
• Employment Law Lecture Series, Touro College, New York, NY (2000)

Professional Activities

• Women's Bar Association of New York Judicial Selection Committee
• International Bar Association
• Arbitration Committee,
• Discrimination and Gender Equality Committee
• Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee
• Human Rights Law Committee
• Human Rights Institute
• Women's Interest Group
• Civic Activities:  United Way, former volunteer and counselor for abused children
• Association for a Better New York

Languages
Spanish, French, Italian