Peter C. Grenier, Esq.
Peter Grenier received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Notre Dame, followed by a clerkship with senior District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Sylvia Bacon. Mr. Grenier’s first jury trial resulted in a $1.5 million judgment, the largest in Montgomery County, Maryland that year. At the age of 43, he is widely recognized as one of the country’s most successful trial attorneys. Several years ago he obtained a record-setting $98 million jury verdict in a highly-publicized civil rights case against the District of Columbia, and in September 2000, he won the largest verdict ever awarded in a synthetic stucco case on behalf of a single homeowner. He successfully represented the estate of school teacher William “Dave” Sanders in a suit against Jefferson County, Colorado arising out of the Columbine High School shootings.
Mr. Grenier has made numerous television and radio appearances, including Good Morning America, Nightline, CNN’s Burden of Proof, Fox National News, Hollywood Extra!, BBC’s Live Over London, and National Public Radio, as well as local news and radio shows around the country. His cases have been featured in many newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Denver Post, the Rocky Mountain News, the Richmond Times Dispatch, and numerous local newspapers and magazines.
Mr. Grenier has represented clients and/or appeared in state and federal courts in Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, Oklahoma, Florida, North Carolina, Connecticut, New Jersey, Oregon, California, Colorado, Indiana, Illinois, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Tennessee, Massachusetts, West Virginia, Nevada, Washington, Michigan, Texas, Vermont and Missouri. He has served as a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
Mr. Grenier was named “Washington`s hottest personal injury laywer” in the April 2002 Washingtonian Magazine and was again recognized by Washingtonian Magazine as a top personal injury attorney in December 2004.
Also, The National Law Journal specially recognized him as one of the top 10 litigators among their Top 40 Under 40 Attorneys in the country in their July 29, 2002 issue.
More recently, Mr. Grenier has been included among the “Best Lawyers in America” for 2006 and 2007. He was also listed amongst the top personal injury attorneys in the October 4, 2006, edition of The Washington Post Sunday Magazine.
- J.D., University of Notre Dame, 1988
- B.A., University of Notre Dame, 1985
Practicing: Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Civil Litigation
