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 Peter S. Everett
Attorney Profile

Education:
  • B.A., 1975, University of Virginia

  • J.D., 1979, University of Virginia

Professional Honors & Activities:
  • 2008, Selected Washington DC SuperLawyers

  • Rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell

  • Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America-Personal Injury (1999-2010)

  • Master, George Mason Inns of Court

  • 2007, 2009 Washingtonian Magazine, Selected Top 1% of Lawyers in Washington - - Personal Injury

  • Permanent Member, Judicial Conference, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

  • Association of Trial Lawyers of America (now American Association for Justice):
    - Interstate Trucking Litigation Group (Member, 1991-present; Former Member, Executive Committee)
    - Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group (1991-present; Former Member, Executive Committee)
    - Inadequate Security Group Co-Chairman (1999-2003; Executive Committee 1993-2003)

  • Fairfax Bar Association, Judicial Screening Committee (1992-1996; 2005-2008; Chairman, 2007-2008)

  • Neutral Case Evaluator for Fairfax Circuit Court (1995-present)

  • Selected: Virginia Super Lawyers (2008-2010)

Community Service:
  • Member, Board of Directors, FACETS (2010-2013)


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Principal

Phone: 703.691.1235

Send an email: PEverett@bklawva.com

Office Location: Fairfax

Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Wrongful Death & Product Liability, Virginia Trucking Litigation Group

Peter Everett is a trial lawyer who devotes his practice to representing persons injured by the reckless or careless acts of others. His practice includes four broad areas. First, Mr. Everett represents clients seriously injured as a result of motor vehicle collisions, with special emphasis on tractor-trailer accidents. He is a member of and has served on the Executive Committee of ATLA's Interstate Trucking Litigation Group. He has represented victims of commercial motor vehicle collisions arising from accidents in California, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C. and Maryland, as well as in state and federal court in Virginia.

Second, Peter represents individuals who have suffered traumatic brain injuries resulting from tractor-trailer crashes, defective products, motor vehicle collisions, bicycle accidents and other circumstances. Mr. Everett is a member of the Brain Injury Association of Virginia and co-authored Counsel's Role in Recognizing the Symptoms of Traumatic Brain Injury and Assisting Medical Professionals in its Evaluation, VTLA The Journal (Spring 1995). In 2005 he lectured at a national conference on brain injury to health care and other professionals, and at a September 2008 retreat of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, he spoke on the use of learned treatises in TBI cases, and on trial tractics in TBI cases.

Third, he represents victims of violent crimes in inadequate security cases against shopping malls, hotels, apartment buildings and other commercial buildings. He has testified before Congress on legislation designed to regulate the security guard industry and has addressed victim's rights issues on CNN's Larry King Live, ABC's 20-20 and The Oprah Winfrey Show. He has published several works in this area, including articles entitled "Establishing the Standard of Care in Inadequate Security Cases," published in the Journal of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, Establishing a Duty, Reaching the Promised Land, "Direct Examination of Security Experts" and "Violence Comes to the Mall," published in Trial magazine. Mr. Everett has served for ten years as a member of the Executive Committee of the Inadequate Security Litigation Group of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) and co-chaired that national litigation group from 1999-2003. he has assisted in the representation of clients in inadequate security matters in Arizona, California, Florida, New York, the District of Columbia, Maryland and West Virginia, as well as in federal and state courts in Virginia.

Finally, Peter litigates on behalf of persons injured by defective conditions in buildings or real estate such as defective roadways, balcony railings and recreational trails, with a special emphasis on representing injured children.
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