Experience and Expertise in Dispute Resolution
Peter’s career has been devoted to the resolution of difficult conflicts, through his practice of over 30 years at the law firm of Shipman & Goodwin, LLP, where he engaged in healthcare and commercial litigation handling high stakes, multiparty disputes with complex factual and legal issues both in Connecticut and in courts throughout the country. He served for 10 years as Chair of the firm’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group and for four years on the Management Committee.
Peter’s commitment to and accomplishments in serving clients to find better ways to resolve disputes led to starting own dispute resolution practice in January 2010. That shift enabled him to focus entirely on dispute resolution as a mediator and arbitrator.

Representative matters and clients
With Shipman & Goodwin LLP
Practice focus was within healthcare, business, and finance, including bankruptcy matters, where negotiation skills were paramount to reach optimal, cost-effective results.
Health Care Representation
Business and Finance Representation
As an Arbitrator and Mediator
Teaching and Service to the Bar
Publications: Contributor of articles and columns on improving dispute resolution practices.
Examples
In the Connecticut Law Tribune; Planned Early Dispute Resolution" Corporate Disputes, "How Businesses Use Planned Early Dispute Resolution” Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation, (with John Lande); "How Your Company Can Develop a Planned Early Dispute Resolution System," Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation, (with John Lande); "Corporate Conflict Management 4.0; Reflections on How to Get There From Here”, 16 Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal 289; "Building Positive Relationships," Alternative Dispute Resolution Client Strategies.
Speaking engagements include national webcast with The Knowledge Group, September 2016: "Resolving Healthcare Disputes Through Best Practices in Mediation & Arbitration.” “Streamlining Disputes: The Mediator as Case Manager,” ADR Hub Webinar, "ADR Comes of Age in Connecticut Corporations," Connecticut Bar Association Annual Meeting; Overview of ADR Developments, Connecticut Bar Association Annual Meeting, numerous speaking engagements and programs to bar associations and business groups.
Dispute Resolution Training: Peter has had several hundred hours of dispute resolution training (as participant and leader), including with the American Arbitration Association; Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiation; American Bar Association; Connecticut Bar Association; and the Center for Understanding in Conflict.
Undergraduate degree from Princeton University — Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, with high honors.
Law degree from Georgetown University — Executive Board of Georgetown Law Journal.
Professional and Community Activities
Active in the American Arbitration Association, Mediation Committee, Connecticut Bar Association Dispute Resolution Sections
American Health Lawyers Association (dispute resolution panel)
Planning Committee – Reimagining Corporate Conflict Management; Pepperdine Law School, fall 2014
Hands on Hartford, Board Member, 2009-2018
Center of Leadership and Justice, Board member and chair of Development Committee, 2023 to present
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Session member, various terms
The Gathering Place, co-founder, and Board Chair 1995-2001
Avid cyclist, regularly competed in triathlons, including the 1995 Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii and 2010 Florida Ironman
With spouse Catherine, parent of three grown daughters and six grandchildren