Leonardis, Peter C.

Since Bernabei & Wachtel formed in 2006, Mr. Wachtel has served as lead counsel for more than a hundred individual clients, including high profile whistleblowers in nuclear power and aviation, women subject to sexual assault and stalking, executives and professionals needing discreet severance negotiations, and legal and financial institutions requiring objective, neutral investigations.

Mr. Wachtel has been named among Washington's best lawyers in the last three Washingtonian Magazine surveys (2004, 2007, and 2009). Since 2008, he has been named as one of Washington, DC's Best Lawyers® for Civil Rights Law. He was recently named as a Super Lawyer® for Civil Rights Law.

Before joining with Ms. Bernabei and Mr. Kabat, Mr. Wachtel was a member of a Washington, D.C., employee-side law firm where his cases addressed age and race discrimination against classes of employees, denial of academic tenure, civil service rights, denial of promotion to federal employees on the basis of race, sex, and national origin, disability discrimination and FMLA interference and retaliation, among many other issues.