Zahn, Thomas E.

Peter McAllen's practice focuses on complex multijurisdictional and class action litigation. He has extensive experience in the areas of antitrust, banking and mortgages, electric energy, partnership management and control, securities, accountants' liability, environmental, insurance coverage, construction defect, bankruptcy, and other commercial litigation.

Peter's representative matters include UPM-Kymmene and its subsidiary Raflatac in the labelstock indirect purchaser price-fixing litigation; a municipal public utility district in litigation arising from the California electric energy crisis of 2000-2001; the majority limited partner interest in the largest resort hotel in Hawaii in a dispute among partners over control, ownership shares, and buyout rights; and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in a class action alleging consumer fraud and "elder abuse" in the design, marketing, and servicing of "reverse mortgages." Before joining Jones Day, Peter worked extensively for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company and its owners on litigation arising out of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Peter was assistant professor and associate professor of law at Southern Illinois University and visiting associate professor of law at Southwestern University School of Law from 1984 to 1989, where he taught complex litigation, conflicts of law, and civil procedure. He is a member of the ABA (Litigation and Antitrust Law Sections), the State Bar of California (Litigation and Antitrust and Unfair Competition Sections), and the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He is coauthor of "The Moralist as Expert Witness," 61 B.U.L. Rev. 869-926 (1982) and the author of "Deference to the Plaintiff in Forum Non Conveniens," 12 S.I.U. L.J. 191-279 (1989).