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Peter A. Greiner Bio
Peter A. Greiner has extensive experience in representing clients in business disputes, complex civil matters, as well as those charged with serious criminal offenses. Pete Greiner routinely represents clients in minority shareholder disputes, counsels and litigates matters involving non-compete agreements and restrictive covenants, and investigates and litigates matters involving corporate fraud. Pete’s practice also includes litigation of legal and medical malpractice claims, catastrophic injury and wrongful death actions, civil rights violations, dram shop matters, and other serious civil matters. Additionally, Pete has successfully represented numerous clients facing serious state and criminal charges. Pete’s practice has brought him before numerous state and federal district courts, as well as court-ordered and private arbitration panels.
Experience
Pete Greiner has over 10 years of experience as a litigator of complex civil and criminal matters. Pete served as an Assistant District Attorney for the City of Philadelphia for five years where he prosecuted thousands of crimes, in front of both judges and juries.
Immediately after leaving the DA’s Office, Pete Greiner gained experience in the area of post-employment restrictive covenants and non-compete agreements, which he successfully litigated in courts across the nation for Fortune 500 clients. In those cases, Pete obtained numerous settlements after litigation for his clients whose former employees sought to violate their post-employment restrictive covenants.
At Meyerson & O’Neill, Pete Greiner has handled some of our most seriously injured clients, obtaining verdicts and settlements on their behalf in Philadelphia and beyond. Pete’s clients have included persons severely injured in car accidents by drivers who were served by taverns while those drivers were visibly intoxicated, persons who were wrongfully arrested and accused of crimes whose civil rights were violated by law enforcement officers, clients who were severely injured and further hurt by the actions and inaction of their attorneys through their negligent misrepresentation, persons injured due to the negligence of their physicians, and many other severely injured clients.
Additionally, Pete represents clients who have complex business disputes. Pete has represented the interests of numerous minority shareholders whose interests were being usurped by the majority shareholders. In those cases, Pete has successfully litigated or resolved those matters without litigation in favor of his clients for millions of dollars. Pete’s experience also includes contract drafting, review, and negotiations, breach of contract litigations, as well as handling corporate fraud and qui tam matters.
Finally, Pete brings the same zeal to the representation of clients charged with serious criminal offenses that he did when he was a prosecutor. Pete has obtained numerous acquittals of clients charged with serious felonies in the state and federal courts.
Education
Pete graduated from Colgate University with a B.A. in Political Science in 1995 and earned his law degree at the Villanova University School of Law in 1998. At Villanova Law School, Pete was a member of both the Moot Court Board and the Criminal Law Society.
Bar Admissions and Memberships
Pete Greiner is admitted to practice law in the courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the State of New Jersey and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. He has also been admitted pro hac vice to numerous state and federal district courts in the course of his career as an attorney.
Practice Areas
Litigation of complex civil cases involving medical malpractice, personal injury, products liability, wrongful death, legal malpractice, civil rights, defamation, commercial and contract litigation, corporate fraud and abuse, business disputes, minority shareholder disputes, employment and non-compete litigation, RICO, civil rights and state and federal criminal defense, particularly defense of white collar crime cases.
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