2011 Super Lawyers Pro Bono Award
Attorney Profile

Peter B. Carey

Peter Carey

Carey & Hartmann LLC
135 South LaSalle Street, Suite 2200
Chicago, IL 60603

Chicago

Illinois (IL)

T: 312-541-0360
F: 312-641-0360

Practice Areas

Business Litigation

General Litigation

Corporate Governance & Compliance

Selected To

• Illinois Super Lawyers 2012
• Illinois Super Lawyers 2011
• Illinois Super Lawyers 2010
• Illinois Super Lawyers 2009
• Illinois Super Lawyers 2008

Profile

Peter B. Carey has nearly 40 years of experience in litigating complex civil actions throughout the United States and in foreign jurisdictions. His clients have included large public companies, such as the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, along with small and medium‑sized businesses, individuals, and units of state and local government. His practice includes contract disputes, corporate control and shareholder conflicts, corporate governance disputes, lender liability litigation, shareholder derivative actions, securities and commodities fraud claims, class actions, environmental litigation, and professional liability claims.

About Peter Carey

Law School: Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Admitted: 1969, Illinois

Professional Webpage: pview.findlaw.com/view/2834987_1

Bar/Professional Activity:

  • Chairman, Development of Law Committee, Chicago Bar Association, 1976 - 1977
  • Vice Chairman, Development of Law Committee, Chicago Bar Association, 1975-1976
  • Seventh Circuit Bar Association
  • American Association for Justice
  • Member, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
  • Member, American Bar Association, Litigation Section
  • Member, Illinois State Bar Association
  • Board of Managers, Chicago Bar Association, 1980-1982
  • Member, Long Range Planning Committee, 1977-1979
  • Member, Special Committee on Judicial Appointive Selection, 1977-1978
  • Member, Judicial Candidates Evaluation Committee, 1976-1980, 1987-1990
  • United States Circuit Courts of Appeals and District Courts
  • Supreme Court of the United States
  • State of Illinois, 1969
  • Member, Chicago Bar Association, 1975
  • Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, 1979

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

  • "What's New With EEO," Builder Magazine, Vol. I
  • Associate Editor, Loyola Law Review
  • "Practice and Procedure," Continuing Legal Education Workman's Compensation Manual, Chapter 5, 1975 Supplement
  • "Eminent Domain - Evidence of Reasonable Probability of Rezoning", 56 Illinois Bar Journal 862, 1968
  • Contributor, "Federal Law Clerks Manual," Federal Judicial Center, 1977

Educational Background:

  • University of Notre Dame, B.A., 1966
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