Peter E. Keith

Peter has been a member of Gallagher Evelius & Jones LLP since 1989. He joined the firm following several years of public service, first as a white-collar criminal prosecutor at the Attorney General’s Office and then as trial counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives in an impeachment of a federal judge.

Peter concentrates his practice in trial and appellate litigation in state and federal courts. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has handled many complex jury trials and appeals during the course of his career. Peter regularly represents the firm’s hospital, college, banking, and governmental clients in a wide range of cases including health care, estates and trusts, education, constitutional and civil rights, employment, environmental and professional malpractice matters. He has also conducted many special investigations for corporations, nonprofit institutions, and governmental clients.

Peter taught civil litigation as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Law School for thirty years. He served as counsel to the Maryland Commission to Restore Trust in Policing which investigated corruption in the Baltimore City Police Department and has been a court-appointed receiver in FTC and securities fraud cases.  Peter has been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America for many years in the areas of Commercial Litigation, Litigation–Banking & Finance, Litigation–Labor & Employment, First Amendment Litigation, and Litigation–Trusts and Estates, and was selected as their 2013 Baltimore Litigation Trusts & Estates “Lawyer of the Year.”  He has been recognized in Maryland Super Lawyers each year since 2008.

Civic and Charitable Service

• Chairman, Baltimore Fire and Police Retirement System, the Baltimore City public pension fund for active and retired Baltimore city firefighters and police officers and their beneficiaries, holding $3.5 billion in assets.
• Friends of Gallagher Services (1998 – 2007)
• Equal Justice Council, Maryland Legal Aid Bureau