Elliot R Peters

Elliot R. Peters is a trial attorney at San Francisco law firm Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP, who frequently works on cases of national significance. He led the defenses of internet activist Aaron Swartz and cyclist Lance Armstrong. He represented the Major League Baseball Players Association in successfully challenging DOJ seizures of baseball players’ drug testing records, in the seminal computer search case, United States v Comprehensive Drug Testing, 579 F.3d 989 (2009). He has also defended financier Frank Quattrone, securities litigator William Lerach and CEO Bruce Karatz. He has represented top international law firms defending malpractice claims and technology companies defending intellectual property claims. Elliot has been named “Attorney of the Year” in California three times, twice for freeing indigent men, serving life sentences for murder, but whose convictions were wrongful and who were actually innocent.