Peter F. Vaira

Conflict, Mediation
1600 Market Street, Suite 2650
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 191037226


Conflict

Admitted

1962, Pennsylvania; 1968, District of Columbia; 1984, Illinois

Law School

Duquesne University, J.D., 1962

Law School Graduation Year

1962

College

Duquesne University, B.A., 1959

Memberships

Pennsylvania Bar Association; American Law Institute. Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers (Chairman, Criminal Procedure Committee, 1991-1994)

Biographical

Author, Corporate Responses to Grand Jury Investigations, Matthew Bender, 1984; Eastern District and Federal Practice Rules, Annotated, Gann Publishing Company, 1996. Member: U.S. Department of Justice, 1968-1978; AIC, Philadelphia, 1972-1973 and Chicago, 1973-1978, Strike Force on Organized Crime. U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1979-1983; Executive Director, President's Commission on Organized Crime, 1983; Mayor's Selection Committee for Philadelphia Police Commissioner, 1994; Panel Member, Seminar, Controlling International Organized Crime, Rome, Sorrento, Italy, June 1995; Panel Member, International Conference, Jury Trials, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1996; Member, Philadelphia Commission on Police Corruption, 1997-1998. Arbitrator, Diet Drug Class Action Settlement, 2001—. Independent Hearing Officer, Laborers' International Union of North America, 1995—. Listed, Who's Who in America. Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Military

Lt., USN, 1963-1968