Peter Freiberg

Attorney

Email: pfreiberg@panditlaw.com
Phone: (504) 323-3045

Peter began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Since then, he has litigated a wide variety of cases, on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants, in state and federal courts, at trial and on appeal. He has tried approximately 100 trials, most before juries. His cases have concerned large mass tort cases, insurance claims and coverage matters, high-end personal injury cases, admiralty and maritime tort and commercial matters, environmental damage claims, employment discrimination cases, commercial and securities disputes, corporate dissolutions, fraud cases, and numerous trust and estate matters.

Peter has been a long-standing Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy at Tulane Law School since 1995. He is rated by his peers through Martindale-Hubbell as AV Preeminent, and has been named in New York Super Lawyers^® and Louisiana Super Lawyers^® since 2013. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Metropolitan Crime Commission and participates as a member of the Orleans Public Defenders Conflict Panel representing indigent clients against felony criminal charges.

Peter’s spouse Mary Kelly Freiberg is a Spanish Professor at Tulane University, and they are the proud parents of two grown children.

ADMITTED

Louisiana, State Courts of Louisiana
New York, State Courts of New York
Connecticut, State Courts of Connecticut
New Jersey, State Courts of New Jersey
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana
U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit

EDUCATION

Tulane Law School, New Orleans, LA: J.D. (cum laude)
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA: B.A.

AFFILIATIONS

Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy, Tulane Law School, 1995-2005, 2019 – present
Member of the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Metropolitan Crime Commission 2020 – present
Member of Orleans Parish Indigent Defenders Conflict Panel
Office of the New York County District Attorney, New York, NY, 1989-1994
Host family: A Better Chance Educational Organization
Westchester County Bar Association
Louisiana Bar Association

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