Peter D. Lederer
Visiting Practitioner, University of Miami School of Law
Former Partner/Of Counsel, Baker & McKenzie
Former Chairman, Coverage Connect
Peter Lederer’s career has spanned more than five decades of sophisticated work in law and the business world. He served many years as a partner of Baker & McKenzie, the global law firm. After seven years in Zurich, where he opened the Firm’s office, he returned to New York, serving as the Senior Partner of that office until 1994. He also served for many years as a member of the Firm’s top global management bodies. For some 25 years Peter served as general counsel to the electric utility owned insurance companies, Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited and Nuclear Mutual Limited. He also acted as counsel for the establishment of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, the international accounting firm, then serving as its general counsel from 1989 to 1994.
Peter was educated at the University of Chicago, where he received his undergraduate degree as well as JD and MCL degrees from the University’s law school. The latter degree was awarded after two year’s post-graduate study in German and Swiss law in Chicago and at the University of Bern. He was an editor of The University of Chicago Law Review, and was Professor Karl N. Llewellyn’s research assistant.
Peter’s professional affiliations include the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the American Bar Association, and the International Nuclear Law Association. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has served multiple terms on the Visiting Committees of the University of Chicago and University of Miami law schools. A close friendship with Soia Mentschikoff led him to become a frequent visitor to the University of Miami Law School. He helped found and works on the development of LawWithoutWalls™.
