Attorney Profile

PETER B. HASKEL

Chief of Litigation

Litigation Division

General Litigation Section

Peter Haskel joined the Dallas City Attorney's Office in 1999. He is the Chief of the General Litigation Section, In addition, his practice focuses on complex civil litigation, often relating to telecommunications and public utilities controversies and bankruptcy as well as other technological and financial issues.

Education

• Columbia School of Law
  J.D. 1975

• Columbia College
  B.A. 1971

Affiliations & Activities

• Admitted to the State Bar of Texas, June, 1989; Also New York Bar February 1975
• Member Dallas Bar Association and American Bankruptcy Institute
• Also admitted to practice in United States District Courts in the Northern, Western, and Southern Districts of Texas, and Southern and Eastern Districts of N.Y.; U.S. Courts of Appeals for Second, Fifth , District of Columbia, and Military Circuits; and U.S. Supreme Court
• Member, State Bar of Texas Committee for Administration of Rules of Evidence (2004-06)
• Faculty, Texas Municipal Court Education Center

Publications & Presentations

• Complex Litigation (Dallas City Attorney's Office 2000)
• Spurious Petitions (Dallas County Bar Ass'n Gov't Law Working Group 2002)
• Bankruptcy Basics (Dallas City Attorney's Office 2003)
• Some Problems Respecting Evidentiary Privileges (Dallas City Attorney's Office 2005)
• Bankruptcy from a Local Government Perspective (panel presentation; National Association of Attorneys General/States’ Association of Bankruptcy Attorneys Annual Bankruptcy Law Conference, Santa Fe NM 2006)
• Pirating Privacy (panel presentation; National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors Annual Conference, Orlando FL 2006)
• Pretrial Discovery Responses (panel presentation; Dallas City Attorney’s Office 2006)
• Bankruptcy Law for the Municipal Attorney (City Attorney's Association of Kansas 2006)
• Ethics of Communicating with Current & Former Government Officials & Employees (International Municipal Lawyers Association IMLA Regional CLE Employment Law Program Dallas TX 2008)
  
• Numerous presentations relating to paper terrorism, domestic terrorism, fraud, and related subjects to FBI National Academy, Texas Association of District and County Judges , Texas Association of District and County Clerks, and other organizations (1996 - Present)

Prior Experience

• Public Sector: Assistant Texas Attorney General (deputy chief, financial litigation division and head, anti-domestic terrorism task force), Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (W.D. Texas); Special Prosecutor (various Texas Counties); Supervising Inspector General (NYC); Assistant District Attorney (NYC); Lieutenant Commander, JAGC, US Navy
• Private Sector: Associate Attorney focusing on complex bankruptcy litigation at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Moore & Peterson, P.C., both in Dallas