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Lawyer Overview

Peter McAllen, who previously taught civil procedure, complex litigation, and conflicts of law, practices at the trial and appellate level in the area of business litigation and has experience in antitrust, banking and mortgages, partnership management and control litigation, securities, accountants' liability, environmental, insurance coverage, construction defect and payment disputes, bankruptcy, and other commercial litigation. He has been extensively involved in the prosecution and defense of large class actions and the defense of federal multidistrict litigation and has substantial first-chair trial experience in civil and criminal jury trials and in administrative bench trials.

Peter currently leads the defense of UPM-Kymmene in both the labelstock indirect purchaser price-fixing litigation and the publication paper indirect purchaser price-fixing litigation. He represents a municipal public utility district in complex multijurisdictional litigation arising from the California electric energy crisis of 2000-2001. He also led the team responsible for the defense of the "indirect purchaser" side of the Methionine price-fixing class action litigation for Aventis S.A. In addition, he represented the majority limited partner interest in the largest resort hotel in Hawaii in a dispute among partners over control, ownership shares, and buyout rights. Peter also headed the defense of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in a class action and related opt-out actions alleging consumer fraud and "elder abuse" in the design, marketing, and servicing of a "reverse mortgage" financial product. 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 an assistant professor of law and associate professor of law at Southern Illinois University from 1984 to 1989 and a visiting associate professor of law at Southwestern University from 1988 to 1989. He is a member of the American Judicature Society, the ABA (Litigation Section; Antitrust Law Section), the State Bar of California (Litigation Section; Antitrust and Unfair Competition Section), 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).

Areas of Practice

• Trial Practice
• Construction Litigation
• Antitrust & Competition Law
• Antitrust Litigation
• Construction

Representative Cases

• C&Z Distributing v. Frito-Lay
• Frito-Lay, Inc. v. Q-Pack/West
• Genentech, Inc., et al. v. Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., et al.
• Hollywood Bowl Renovations
• In re Methionine Antitrust Litig., MDL Docket No. 1311, 2001 WL 1018708, 2001 WL 679115, 204 F.R.D. 161, 2003 WL 22048232 (N.D. Cal.)
• Microsoft v. GigaMedia
• Pioneer v. San Diego Trust & Savings Bank
• Princeview v. Pan Global Partners
• Public Utility District No. 2, etc., v. California Independent System Operator Corp.
• Publication Paper Indirect Purchaser Cartel Litigation
• TAPS Quality Bank Litigation
• Engine Interchange Litigation
• Labelstock Indirect Purchaser Cartel Litigation
• Lincoln Savings Securities Litigation
• Methionine Cartel Investigation
• Reverse Mortgage Litigation

West Practice Categories

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Antitrust Law, Bankruptcy Litigation, Business & Commercial Law, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Contracts, Deceptive Trade Practices, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, International Antitrust, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Military & Veterans Appeals, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, RICO Act, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, Trade Regulation, Unfair Competition, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• U of California - Los Angeles

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