Stakelum, Piercy Joseph

Peter St. Phillip is a partner in the firm. He regularly represents large health insurers, such as CIGNA and Horizon, in cost recovery matters.

Mr. St. Phillip has extensive appellate experience, stemming from his clerkship with the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He has lectured on appellate advocacy and has briefed and argued several appeals in the federal circuit courts.

Through his appellate practice, Mr. St. Phillip has been instrumental in securing decisions invalidating agency regulations, Roussos v. Menifee, 122 F.3d 159 (3d Cir. 1997), upholding summary judgment, In re Cardizem CD
Antitrust Litig., 332 F.3d 896 (6th Cir. 2003), affirming settlements, In re Cardizem CD Antitrust Litig., 391 F.3d 812 (6th Cir. 2004) and reversing dismissals, Desiano v. Warner-Lambert Co., 326 F.3d 339 (2d Cir. 2003).

Mr. St. Phillip has prosecuted a large number of antitrust and cost recovery matters during his career, including trying cases to verdict. He has developed and defended expert economic testimony in connection with successful prosecutions of commodity manipulation claims, prescription drug cases and antitrust matters. He is responsible for day-to-day litigation efforts in several pharmaceutical and health care engagements. Mr. St. Phillip has extensive expertise in complex litigation concerning medical and pharmaceutical cost recovery claims and pharmacy benefits management. Mr. St. Phillip is a contributing editor to the American Bar Association's Antitrust Class Actions Handbook.

Mr. St. Phillip has represented hedge funds in insurance coverage litigation. He also regularly represents a publicly-traded bank in defense of claims involving state and federal lending disclosure and trade practices laws.

Mr. St. Phillip has been selected as a Dispute Resolver for the American Health Lawyers Association's Alternative Dispute Resolution Service Panel. Mr. St. Phillip graduated with honors from Seton Hall University School of Law (J.D. cum laude 1993) and received a Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College (1990). He is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and is a member of the bars of the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 8th Circuits; and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.