Peter C. Neger has more than 40 years of litigation experience in both federal and state courts, as well as in arbitrations and mediations. His experience covers all phases of complex litigation, including litigation avoidance counseling, trials and appeals, pre-trial discovery, and Daubert proceedings. He retired from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in September 2023 and continues to provide advice and counsel to selected clients.

Peter has represented clients in various types of real estate litigation, including partnership disputes and dissolutions; land use disputes and commercial landlord-tenant proceedings; securities fraud and class actions; civil RICO actions; foreclosure and other bank-related litigation; SEC enforcement proceedings; trademark infringement actions; and actions involving professional liability claims, sex and race discrimination claims, and alleged bankruptcy frauds.

Among other matters in which Peter was engaged in his four-decade career as a partner in several large international law firms, were the representations of:

  • a financial technology company in actions brought by the company’s former CEO in an arbitration forum and in multiple state and federal courts arising out of the former officer’s claim to control a majority of the company’s shares

  • the owners of a large affordable housing project located in Brooklyn, N.Y., in federal and state court litigation challenging rent increase orders issued by government authorities

  • a financial institution alleged to have breached its fiduciary duties as corporate trustee of a revocable trust

  • a biotechnology company sued in New York State court for breach of a research agreement and tortious interference with prospective business relations

  • a prominent New York residential cooperative building in a 20-year dispute and negotiation with the City of New York regarding land use issues

  • pro bono counsel for a gay Jamaican man seeking asylum in the United States based upon his sexual orientation, and a Honduran teenager seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile Status in the United States

 Peter served for more than 10 years as lead national counsel for a pharmaceutical manufacturer in the fen/phen diet drug litigation, involving more than 7,000 individual and class action product liability  lawsuits filed in a federal Multi District Litigation (MDL) and state courts throughout the United States.  Peter acted as national coordinating counsel for a manufacturer of generic methylphenidate and functioned in the same capacity in litigation involving claims that the use of a mercury-based preservative in childhood vaccines caused autism.