A native of Akron, Ohio, Peter Pattakos has represented clients in a variety of matters.
As an attorney in Jones Day’s litigation group in Cleveland, Ohio, Peter worked on commercial contract and insurance coverage disputes; product liability suits; securities, shareholder, and derivative litigation; antitrust litigation; and in investigations conducted by the Securities & Exchange Commission and the United States Department of Justice. In addition, he handled a number of matters referred by the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, including eviction actions in Cleveland Municipal Housing Court and income tax collection proceedings instituted by the Internal Revenue Service.
These representations included:
- Assisting a team led by Steven E. Sigalow and Mark J. Andreini in developing a novel damages theory on behalf of Brush Wellman, Inc. against its London insurers that established a new key principle of Ohio insurance coverage law.
- Assisting a team led by John M. Newman Jr. (Jack) and Geoffrey J. Ritts in achieving dismissal on the pleadings of a claim in federal court against Diebold, Inc. which had been sued under the Securities Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 for allegedly making false statements about the company's businesses. The court denied the plaintiffs' motion to amend and entered judgment in favor of defendants on all the claims in the complaint.
- Obtaining the release of a levy on an client's wages that had been attached by the United States Internal Revenue Service.
While a law student at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, Peter served for a semester as an Intern for the U.S. Department of Justice at the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Illinois. There, Peter advised U.S. Attorneys on matters ranging from the application of foreign legal doctrine to a highly-publicized immigration case to the establishment of criminal intent in an armed robbery.
Peter served another semester as an extern for Federal Judge Matthew F. Kennelly, also of the Northern District of Illinois, during which Peter assisted Judge Kennelly with legal research and drafting of opinions on matters pending in his courtroom.
Also while in law school, Peter was elected president of the student government and was awarded senior research honors for his paper "Randy Barnett and the Path of the Law: Constitutional Legitimacy, Rejecting ‘Law as Science,’ and Coming to Terms with ‘Law and Science.’”
Before law school, and after graduating from college at New York University, Peter worked as a paralegal in the litigation department of New York firm Fried Frank, and worked for three years as a legal analyst in the Office of Management and Budget for the Mayor of the City of New York under the administrations of Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg.
While in college, Peter played baseball for NYU and co-hosted a sports talk radio program called "The Cheap Seats."
Peter's writing on sports and other miscellaneous topics is featured at the website Cleveland Frowns.
Bar Admissions: Ohio
Education: Northwestern University (J.D. 2007); New York University (B.S. 2000)