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Practice Areas: Complex civil litigation including mass tort and environmental litigation, qui tam actions, antitrust matters, securities cases, and ERISA litigation.

Additional Information: Peter Nordberg is a graduate of Harvard College (A.B. 1980) and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D. 1985), where he received the Fred G. Leebron Award in Constitutional Law and the John H. Maurer Memorial Prize in Criminal Procedure, and where he served as an Executive Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, authoring “The Petition Clause and Unauthorized Practice Rules,” 132 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1515 (1984). Since joining Berger & Montague in 1990, Mr. Nordberg has practiced in state and federal courts across the nation, in diverse areas of complex civil litigation including mass tort and environmental litigation, qui tam actions, antitrust matters, securities cases, and ERISA litigation. He recently served as co-counsel for plaintiffs in the four-month trial of Cook v. Rockwell Int’l Corp., where claims for trespass and nuisance against two former operators of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant were tried to verdict on behalf of a class of Colorado property owners, resulting in a half-billion dollar jury award. In 2005, he served as a member of the plaintiffs’ trial team in Washington State for the inaugural bellwether trial in the Hanford Nuclear Reservation Litigation, helping to win what is believed to be the first verdict in history in favor of personal injury plaintiffs suffering from cancer caused by offsite exposures to radiation released by operators of a nuclear weapons facility. In 2003, he was appellate counsel in Ileto v. Glock, in which the Ninth Circuit approved a public nuisance action against gun manufacturers for injuries inflicted by the unlawful use of their products. Mr. Nordberg is also founder and author of the web site “Daubert on the Web,” a nationally recognized resource on the law of expert evidence. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, and he is also a member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court and numerous U.S. Courts of Appeals.

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Firm Members: Ellen Noteware Sherrie Savett Todd Collins David Sorensen Eric Cramer Merrill Davidoff Peter Norberg Rosyln Pollack Susan Thomas Shannon Carson Shanon Carson Lawrence Deutsch Jacob Polakoff