Peter S. Lubin Firm has been practicing law for over 35 years. Peter brings a rich range of courtroom experience to assist his commercial and class-action litigation clients. Peter has been lead defense counsel in a number of "bet the company" class actions that he has successfully defended. He has also been lead plaintiff's class counsel on numerous multi-million dollar class national and statewide class action. Peter has represented many corporations or businesses in a wide variety of complex business disputes including corporate freeze-outs, copyright infringement, trade secret theft, non-compete agreement and libel and defamation cases. Peter obtained an AB from Dartmouth College in 1980, and his JD from the University of Chicago Law School in 1983. He teaches trial advocacy and jury trial practice skills to students at the University of Chicago Law School's Mandel Legal Aid Clinic. The then Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit selected Peter to be one of the founding members of the Markey-Wigmore Inns of Court. Peter has received commendations from the DuPage Legal Assistance Foundation for obtaining for the Foundation hundreds of thousands of dollars from certain class actions. In 2007, Peter was invited to become a member of the Visiting Committee at the University of Chicago Law School.
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