Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Peter J. Lefeber is a partner in the firm’s Labor, Employment and Benefits Department. Now entering his 30th year at Wiggin and Dana, Mr. Lefeber has served numerous terms on the firm's Executive Committee and is a former chair of the Labor, Employment and Benefits Department.

For the past three decades, Mr. Lefeber has practiced labor and employment law exclusively on behalf of private employers. He represents management in all aspects of the employment relationship, including union organizing drives, unfair labor practice cases, arbitrations, labor contract negotiations, strike management, reductions in force, plant closings, severance arrangements, discrimination claims, wage and hour cases, and wrongful discharge suits, immigration matters, and related issues. During the course of his career, Mr. Lefeber has assisted clients in the negotiation of hundreds of collective bargaining agreements, and advised on scores of grievances and arbitration matters in a wide array of industries. His clients include major health care entities, educational institutions, manufacturing companies, insurance organizations, utilities, and not-for-profit corporations.

Mr. Lefeber is a member of ABA's Labor and Employment Section, and has served on the Executive Committee of the Connecticut Bar Association Section on Labor and Employment Law. He is a regular lecturer for a variety of management groups in the field of employment law, having lectured extensively for such groups as the Connecticut Bar Association, National Business Institute, Council on Education in Management, Institute for Applied Law and Management, the Connecticut Hospital Association, and the Connecticut Association for Home Care. Mr. Lefeber is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the category of Labor and Employment Law (for more about the standards for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, please see http://www.bestlawyers.com/news/default.aspx), and in Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business.

He is a graduate of St. Michael's College (A.B., summa cum laude) and the University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D., cum laude), where he was Administrative Editor of the Connecticut Law Review.

Areas of Practice

• Labor & Employment
• Education
• Energy and Utilities

West Practice Categories

Education Law, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Energy Law, Labor Law

Bar Admissions

• Connecticut, 1980

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association (Labor and Employment Section)

Honors and Awards

• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America

Education

• University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut, 1980
  J.D.
  Honors: cum laude
  Honors: With Honors
  
  Law Review: Connecticut Law Review, Administrative Editor, 1979 - 1980
• St Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont, 1977
  A.B.
  Honors: summa cum laude

Fraternities/Sororities

• Delta Epsilon Sigma

Address

One Century Tower
P.O. Box 1832
265 Church Street
New Haven, CT 06508-1832

Phones

(203) 498-4329

Faxes

(203) 782-2889

Emails

Contact Us

Websites

http://www.wiggin.com