Peter B. Prestley – Madsen, Prestley & Parenteau LLC

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Employment attorney Peter Prestley was a founding partner of Madsen, Prestley & Parenteau, LLC and now serves as Counsel with the firm.

He advises senior executives and professionals and represents them in negotiation and litigation. Mr. Prestley represents clients at all phases of the employment relationship, from formation to termination and beyond. He also provides a full range of legal services to potential and actual whistleblowers under federal and state law, especially the federal False Claims Act.

Mr. Prestley is former Deputy General Counsel of The Travelers Companies, where he was responsible for complex litigation, including employment and employee benefit matters. He also dealt with matters in the areas of tax, business, corporate, and international business law. In 1994 Mr. Prestley moved from Travelers to represent Travelers at the firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, concentrating his practice on major complex litigation.

A respected writer on legal topics in his area of focus, Mr. Prestley’s numerous articles and writings include the currently serializing book “New Practical Guide to the False Claims Act,” as well as a 2009 Connecticut Bar Journal article titled “New Forces Come on Line to Battle Fraud Against Taxpayers.” He is also the author of “Judging a Book by its Cover: Boilerplate Clauses in Executive Compensation Agreements,” published by BNA.

Mr. Prestley is former Chair of the 35,000 member of the Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the ABA, former Chair of that Section’s Employment Benefits Committee, and a former member of the ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits. The latter group consults annually with Congress on federal employee benefit policy.

He is also a former member of the ABA Special Committee on Environmental Law, and has spoken and published internationally on environmental law policy issues. Mr. Prestley is also former section President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, a leading international bar association that is particularly concerned with defending lawyers who represent unpopular clients in countries with limited democratic institutions.

He was one of four ABA delegates to the last United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (the Rio Conference which produced Agenda 21), and he also served on the select World Order Under Law Committee, which is the principal ABA interface with the United Nations.

Mr. Prestley is a graduate of Wesleyan University and University of Connecticut School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the school’s Law Review.

He is married to Connecticut Superior Court Judge Linda Pearce Prestley.

University of Connecticut School of Law, J.D. with honors
Wesleyan University, B.A. summa cum laude in History and Psychology

Connecticut

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