Peter A. Austin

Peter Austin is an associate with the Business Litigation Team, the Intellectual Property Team, the Real Estate Law Team, and the Environmental Law Team. Peter assists with general civil litigation matters, covering a broad range of substantive areas, including contract disputes, eminent domain actions, corporate derivative actions, zoning disputes, intellectual property matters, and other business-oriented disputes.

While attending the University of Chicago Law School, Peter drafted legal documents and researched legal issues at the Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship and at the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, Welfare Litigation Bureau.

Peter received his B.A. in History, with honors, and a minor in Biology from Swarthmore College. He earned his M.A. in East Asian Studies at Yale University and was awarded his J.D. from University of Chicago.

Areas of Practice
Civil and Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, Environmental Law

Memberships
Sacramento County Bar Association
State Bar of California
United States District Court for the Eastern District of California

Education
University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL
J.D., 2007

Yale University, New Haven, CT
M.A., 2004
East Asian Studies

Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
B.A, with honors, 2002
History with a minor in Biology

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