Peter Ball

Peter concentrates his practice in the representation of clients in white-collar criminal matters, government investigations and complex civil litigation. A former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of New York, Peter has more than thirty years of experience litigating both criminal and civil matters in state and federal courts. In multiple years, Peter has been named as one of the Top 100 Massachusetts Super Lawyers. He has also been listed in multiple years in Best Lawyers®. Peter joined FITCH in 2002, after spending the previous 12 years at Hill & Barlow, the last eight as a Member of the firm. Peter has tried more than 30 cases, principally jury trials, in Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire and Florida federal courts and Massachusetts state courts. His appellate work has included arguing criminal and civil appeals in the United States Courts of Appeals for three different federal circuits and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Massachusetts Appeals Court. Peter has frequently appeared on bar association and other panels, presenting on criminal and civil litigation topics. He has been a guest commentator on television and has published articles in publications as diverse as Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, The Boston Bar Journal, Commonweal, and International Company and Commercial Law Review. Peter has also long been active in Columbia Law School alumni affairs, having served as President of the Columbia Law School Alumni Association of Boston, Vice President of the national Columbia Law School Alumni Association and a member of Columbia Law School reunion committees. For more information, please see Peter's webpage on the Fitch Law Partners website: https://www.fitchlp.com/Attorneys/Peter-E-Ball.shtml