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Practice Areas: Aviation Law, Complex Litigation, Products Liability, Personal Injury, Appellate Practice, Business Torts, Commercial Litigation

Additional Information: Mr. Petumenos focuses on complex civil litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants. He also handles selected criminal defense cases involving business, environmental, tax and public trust issues.


Mr. Petumenos solidified his reputation as one of state's toughest trial lawyers during his tenure with the Alaska Office of Special Prosecutions in the early 1980's. There, he tried high-profile corruption cases and secured a bribery conviction against a powerful state senator. After joining BHBC, he was called back to public service to prosecute the infamous MacKay murder trials.


Now in private practice, he continues to lead some of Alaska's most important and well-known trials. In the state Exxon Valdez oil spill case, Mr. Petumenos was counsel for the Alaska Native Corporations who owned the contaminated beaches. Many of his major cases, including other catastrophic oil spills, criminal tax proceedings, environmental trials and wrongful termination actions have led to important issues of law being established in the Alaska Supreme Court.


Not surprisingly, Mr. Petumenos is the firm’s senior trial attorney, responsible for supervising the litigation teams BHBC assembles to handle major cases. Mr. Petumenos also heads the firm’s contingent fee practice.


Mr. Petumenos has been successful in establishing for Alaska's large business interests that plaintiff work benefits the business community as well and has represented some of the largest companies in the state on a contingent fee basis while providing those same firms defense services.


With all his success in prominent cases, Mr. Petumenos still takes great pride in the work he and his trial team have done, without fee, to protect families seeking asylum in the United States to escape difficult and dangerous conditions in their countries of origin.

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Firm Members: Michelle Nesbett Jennfier Alexander