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Peter C. LenartAssociate
617-406-4671 Direct Telephone Experience Peter served as co-trial counsel in two Madoff “feeder” related fraud matters in May of 2011. These actions went to verdict in Nantucket Superior Court. Following a six day trial the jury found in favor of Donovan Hatem’s clients and awarded damages in excess of $1 Million. Peter has also investigated and defended environmental matters in several New England states. He was successful in winning a nearly two million dollar judgment in an environmental cost recovery action in Worcester Superior Court in 2008. Peter served as the matter’s lead trial counsel, and opposed an attorney who had been involved in litigating the matter throughout the course of the case’s more than twenty year procedural history. In addition to his many years of experience in representing architects, engineers, surveyors, project owners, and Performing Party Groups in complex commercial matters, Peter possesses extensive litigation experience in the diverse fields of criminal law, employment and civil rights law, aviation litigation, environmental and contaminated site remediation cost recovery actions, and the defense of catastrophic injury and wrongful death matters. Peter served in the Disability Rights Section, Civil Rights Division, of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. where he enforced the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). In 1997, following then Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Deval Patrick’s departure from government service to private practice, Peter was awarded a Letter of Commendation from Acting Assistant Attorney General Isabelle Katz Pinzler in recognition of his service to the Department. Peter’s experience in enforcing the U.S. disability law is frequently called upon to assist the firm’s design professional clients in responding to issues involving both the ADA and the Fair Housing Act. Peter also served the people of the State of Florida as an Assistant State Attorney in Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit (Miami-Dade County). As a line prosecutor he tried domestic violence matters, drug cases, juvenile prosecutions, thefts, robberies and had prosecutorial responsibility for all felony levels having up to a life sentence as potential punishment. In light of his can-do attitude and his passion for victim advocacy, one Circuit Court Bailiff nicknamed him “RoboCop.” Peter began litigating aviation matters in 2000, and went on to represent major domestic and international air carriers in accident cases across the country. He also represented premier general aviation aircraft and component manufacturers in suits for injury or death in federal multi-district litigation, and in state and federal court commercial litigation.
Education
Articles and Publications Indemnification—A Contractual Sword and Shield: Tips on How to Enter Into Contracts Which Leave Design Professionals Well Armed and Well Protected, The Design and Construction Management Professional Reporter, June 2010. Contributing Author, Chapter 4: Architect-Engineer Contracting, Federal Government Construction Contracting, Editors: Adrian L. Bastianelli III, Andrew D. Ness, Joseph D. West, published by American Bar Association, 2010. RFIs and Shop Drawings: How to Manage Risk and Reduce Liability, co-authored with David Hatem, partner at Donovan Hatem LLP, STRUCTURE Magazine, March 2010. Florida Court of Appeals Further Restricts Applicability of Limitation of Liability Provisions in Professional Service Contracts, The Design and Construction Management Professional Reporter, February 2010. United States Court of Federal Claims Finds No Breach of Implied Warranty, The Design and Construction Management Professional Reporter, January 2008. Published in AIG Aviation Helicopter Loss Control & Litigation Newsletter, Article regarding V-22 Osprey Tiltrotor Aircraft Community Involvement
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