Peter, a partner with Phillips & Cohen, has handled a wide variety of qui tam cases since joining the firm in 1994.

His practice has included pursuing fraud cases on behalf of whistleblowers against defense contractors, construction firms and healthcare providers.

He has played a leading role in two whistleblower cases against HCA - the Healthcare Co., the nation’s largest healthcare provider. As a result of those lawsuits, the federal government launched its largest investigation ever into Medicare fraud. A qui tam case against another large healthcare provider that he worked extensively on settled recently for $85.7 million.

Peter also played a key role in winning a recent court battle to boost a client’s whistleblower award to 24 percent of the settlement. It was the largest share of a qui tam settlement that a court has awarded to a whistleblower in a False Claims Act case the government has joined.

Peter graduated in 1986 from Yale Law School, where he was a Coker fellow and senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. He then served as a law clerk to the Honorable Alvin B. Rubin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

From 1987 to 1994, Peter was associated with Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. His practice there centered on complex civil and commercial matters, including business torts and fraud, medical malpractice defense, civil RICO, products liability, and labor and employment matters.

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