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• Peter Homer is one of the firm’s founders and is the managing member. He has a diverse and extensive business law and litigation practice at both the trial and appellate levels, and in various arbitral forums.
• Mr. Homer represents individuals and institutions in business and commercial litigation, securities and commodities litigation, and regulatory enforcement actions. Clients include independent business owners, sole proprietorships, partnerships, franchisees, limited liability companies and corporations, brokerage firms, clearing firms, and brokers and principals of broker/dealer firms. For these clients, he handles all aspects of litigation, arbitration, regulatory enforcement proceedings, and investigations by governmental agencies or self-regulatory organizations. He also counsels clients on compliance issues and laws, rules and regulations at the federal and state levels of various regulatory organizations that pertain to all exchanges and over-the-counter products.
•  Mr. Homer has significant experience representing organizations and individuals who have become subjects of investigations or enforcement proceedings by federal and state governmental agencies, including the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Education, Florida Attorney General, as well as other state regulators or industry self-regulatory organizations like the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Clients include securities broker-dealers, investment advisors, investment companies, hedge funds, publicly-held companies, banks, insurance companies, for-profit schools, accounting firms, commodities firms, futures commission merchants, precious metals dealers, as well as the officers, directors, partners and employees of these companies. Mr. Homer has aggressively litigated against most governmental agencies on various issues, including temporary restraining orders, preliminary injunctions, and limiting the scope of or overturning orders involving asset freezes.
• Mr. Homer’s education law practice is one of the most extensive in the nation. He represents universities, colleges and career schools in a variety of litigated and regulatory matters. He counsels these clients on compliance with accrediting standards of public and private primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, as well as on state and federal regulations.
• Mr. Homer provides counseling and litigation services to banks and other financial institutions in all phases of consumer and commercial litigation, which includes drafting and interpreting contracts, leases, promissory notes and security agreements. Clients include large national banks, local commercial and private banks, national commercial credit companies, and national commercial leasing companies, as well as foreign banking institutions. He is knowledgeable about the intricacies of FDIC and other federal and state banking regulations. He also provides representation in pre-litigation loan workouts and reorganizations through bankruptcy.
• Mr. Homer provides businesses with a full-range of employment-related legal services and has handled lawsuits involving discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wrongful termination, wage and hour, breach of contracts, severance, employee benefits, non-competition, confidentiality, trade secrets, whistle-blower, invasion of privacy, and defamation claims. Clients include a broad range of domestic and foreign corporations.
• Mr. Homer’s real estate practice includes representing developers, landlords, tenants, buyers and sellers in transactional and real estate disputes.
• Mr. Homer has extensive experience in insurance coverage and bad faith litigation. He knows how to negotiate the intricacies of the claims process and aggressively fight insurance companies when they wrongfully deny legitimate claims.
• Mr. Homer has experience in prosecuting and defending all types of class actions. He has represented a variety of businesses throughout the country in class action lawsuits involving mass tort and consumer class actions. He has also defended class action lawsuits involving corporate civil litigation, contracts, RICO, business torts, commodities and securities.
• Mr. Homer represents clients at both the state and federal levels in civil appeals. He has appeared before the Florida Supreme Court, the Florida District Court of Appeals, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and numerous other federal appellate courts.

Professional and Civic Activities and Memberships

• American Bar Association
• The Florida Bar
• Maryland State Bar Association
• Dade County Bar Association
• Securities Dealers Association

Professional Recognition

• AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• The Best Lawyers in America (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
• Super Lawyers (2006, 2007, 2008)
• Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition (2009)
• Florida Trend’s Legal Elite (2004, 2005, 2006, 2008)

Bar Admissions

• Florida
• Maryland

Court Admissions

• Florida State Courts
• Maryland State Courts
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
• U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
• U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
• U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Background

• Founding Member of HomerBonner
• Local Rules Committee, The Florida Bar
• Judicial Clerkship, Honorable Sidney M. Aronovitz, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (1979-1980)
• Judicial Clerkship, Chief Judge Robert Murphy, Maryland Court of Appeals, (1978–1979)

Education

• University of Virginia School of Law (J.D./M.B.A., 1978)

• University of Notre Dame (B.A., magna cum laude, 1974)

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