E-mail: PDurney@CornellGollub.com
Tel: (617) 482-8100 Fax : (617) 482-3917

Peter M. Durney began his career as in-house counsel with GE’s product liability insurance division, and then joined Cornell & Gollub in 1982. Since becoming a partner in the firm in 1987, he has represented hundreds of domestic and foreign corporations and individuals in the state and federal courts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont. On occasion, Mr. Durney is asked by major corporate clients to become involved in litigation elsewhere in the United States as well.

Concentration

•	Commercial Litigation

•	General Litigation/Personal Injury

•	Product Liability

•	Medical Device Litigation

•	Automotive and Marine Litigation

•	Professional Malpractice

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Appeals

Professional & Community Involvement

•	Member : Massachusetts Bar Association (Civil Litigation Section)

•	Member: Boston Bar Association

•	Member: Maine State Bar Association

•	Member: New Hampshire State Bar Association

•	Member: Federal Bar Association

•	Member: American Bar Association

•	Member: Maine Trial Lawyers Association

•	Member: Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association

•	Member: Defense Research Institute (Industrywide Subcommittee - Automotive and Recreational/Sports Equipment Sections)

•	Member: Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (Products Liability Section, Vice-Chairman, Auto, Land, Air Transportation & Casualty Insurance Section)

•	Member: International Association for Insurance Law, U.S. Charter

•	Member: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine

•	Member: American Board of Trial Advocates, President, Massachusetts Chapter

•	Member: Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc

•	Member: International Association of Defense Counsel, Toxic & Hazardous Substance Litigation Committee, Product Liability Committee

•	Member: American Boat & Yacht Council, Inc.

Publications

Understanding Time Limits on Removing Multiparty Cases to Federal Court, American Bar Association Section of Litigation, Mass Torts Litigation Committee Newsletter, Vol. 7, No. 3, Summer 2009
- reprinted, Appellate Practice Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2, Winter 2010
- reprinted, Committee on Pretrial Practice & Discovery Newsletter, Vol. 18, No. 2, Winter 2010

Preserving Objections to Jury Instructions: Speak Now, or Forever Hold Your Peace, Federal Bar Association, Federal Litigation Section Sidebar, Vol. 9, No. 2, Summer 2009

A Few Fundamental and Practical Tips: Product Testing for Use at Trial, For the Defense, December 2006, Vol.48, No.12

Awards

Named a 2005 Massachusetts Super Lawyer in the area of General Litigation (as published in Boston Magazine)

Named a 2006 Massachusetts Super Lawyer in the area of Business Litigation (as published in Boston Magazine)

Named a 2007 New England Super Lawyer in the area of Personal Injury Defense: Products (as published in Boston Magazine)

Named a 2008 New England Super Lawyer in the area of Personal Injury Defense: Products (as published in Boston Magazine)

Named a 2009 New England Super Lawyer in the area of Personal Injury Defense: Products (as published in Boston Magazine)

Fellow: Litigation Counsel of America

Education

J.D., Suffolk University Law School, 1980; Phi Delta Phi
B.A., Boston College, 1976 (cum laude)
Institute of European Studies, La Sorbonne and Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France (1974-1975)

Admitted to Practice

Massachusetts
Maine
New Hampshire
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
U.S. District Court, District of Maine
U.S. District Court, District of New Hampshire
U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
Supreme Court of the United States