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Peter Romary is a British-born Americanattorney living in Greenville, North Carolina. He is a lawyer and trainer in the United States. He is best known for his pro-bono work on behalf of victims of domestic violence and other violent crimes
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Background
Peter Romary was born in Leeds, United Kingdom,and grew up in Cornwall where he attended Truro School. While in school Romary won the Boys' Junior Épée title at the British Public Schools' Fencing Championships in 1986. He holds law degrees from the University of Reading and from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Romary attributed his becoming a lawyer to his desire to follow in the footsteps of his father, John Romary, a retired solicitor and judge in England.
Career
Romary's legal work most notably included obtaining a then-world record wrongful death jury verdict of $525 million USD in 1998, which still stands as the largest wrongful death jury verdict ever returned in North Carolina.
Romary was the President of the "International Society of Lawyers for Public Service" and is the Membership Committee Chair of "The College of Master Advocates and Barristers".
For over 12 years, Romary represented over one hundred victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and sexual abuse each year on a pro-bono basis; by the time he received the National Law Journal Pro Bono Award in 2003 he had represented 700 victims, and by the time he began work at East Carolina University the number had reached 1,200 victims.
Romary also served on the University of North Carolina Campus Safety Task Force. Among its more-contentious recommendations was one calling for criminal background checks for applicants. He also founded the North Carolina Higher Education Safety Symposium. For his work in higher education safety and risk management, Romary was awarded the 2010 John L. Sanders Student Advocate Award by the University of North Carolina Association of Student Governments, the organization's "highest honor bestowed by the Association upon a member of the University of North Carolina community." In 2011, Romary was also the recipient of the Verizon Men for Change Award for his work on behalf of victims of domestic violence.
Romary currently works as a Teaching Associate Professor and Director of Student Legal Services at East Carolina University, as well as "Of Counsel" to the law firm of Tanner and Romary, in Clayton, North Carolina. He is also a partner in QVerity, a risk management, investigations, and screening firm. Romary also continues to lecture around the US and overseas and advise both private and government clients.
Romary rose to the rank of "Worshipful Master" in charge of his masonic lodge by 2003.
From 2007 to 2012, Romary also served as the Honorary Consul for the Republic of Namibia to North Carolina, establishing the first consular post for any African nation in North Carolina.