AKR Professionals | Peter B. Pope

Education:

Yale Law School, J.D., 1986
Note Editor, Yale Law Journal

Harvard College, A.B., cum laude, 1982

Clerkship:

Hon. Robert W. Sweet, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1986-1987

Publications:

E. Spitzer and P. Pope, Gun Control without Gun Laws,
Slate, April 29, 2009 (http://www.slate.com/id/2217117).

Stanley S. Arkin, P. Pope, Barrett N. Prinz,
New DOJ Guidelines on Prosecuting Businesses,
BUSINESS CRIMES BULLETIN, Vol. 16, No. 2 (October 2008).

P. Pope and E. Kuriansky, An Inquiry into the Failures of the New York City School Construction Authority at PS 131(K): Sad Lessons from the Tragic Death of Yan Zhen Zhao (Dec. 1998).

P. Pope, Note: How Unreliable Factfinding Can Undermine Sentencing Guidelines, 95 Yale L.J. 1258 (1986).

Bar Admissions:

New York State
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Memberships:

American Bar Association
Criminal Justice Standards Committee

t. 212.333.0270
f. 212.333.2350
E. ppope@arkin-law.com

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Peter B. Pope

Peter B. Pope joined Arkin Kaplan Rice LLP after serving in the Executive Chamber of the Governor's Office under Governors David Paterson and Eliot Spitzer. Before that, Mr. Pope headed the Criminal Division of the New York State Attorney General's Office for nearly a decade.

An experienced civil and criminal litigator, Mr. Pope represented Governor Spitzer during multi-agency investigations into the Governor's Office. Before that, as Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Pope was one of a small, high-level team of experienced prosecutors that developed and executed the strategy that brought the New York State Attorney General's Office to national prominence. He personally litigated some of the most high-profile cases in the Attorney General's office, including arguing landmark cases in the New York State Court of Appeals.

Mr. Pope has special expertise in the many fronts of high-stakes litigation, having coordinated multi-agency investigations, negotiated with corporate management and Boards of Directors, helped develop communications strategies, testified before legislative bodies, investigated and tried criminal cases, and negotiated civil settlements involving hundreds of millions of dollars, monitors, and far-reaching corporate reforms. At the Attorney General's Office, he led cases involving securities analysts, market timing, insurance underwriters and brokers, public officials, and hospitals and other health care providers.

In the Governor's office, Mr. Pope negotiated landmark laws with the New York State legislature, including the widely heralded overhaul of the Workers' Compensation system, and an Anti-Human Trafficking Bill, described by the New York Times as "one of the strongest anti-trafficking laws in the country." Mr. Pope also led the team that wrote Governor Spitzer's second and final State of the State address.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Pope has conducted numerous investigations, many leading to criminal and civil cases, and others to public reports. The public reports have included an examination of corruption at the New York Racing Association, governmental failure at the New York State Canal Corporation, and systemic breakdowns at the New York City School Construction Authority. Each report led to significant reform.

Mr. Pope has also been a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, Inspector General of the New York City School Construction Authority (where his agency was named semi-finalist in the Ford Foundation-Kennedy School "Innovations in American Government" program), and Deputy Chief of the Labor Racketeering Unit under Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau.

He has frequently lectured on fraud and corruption, including to bar association panels, accountants, and visiting foreign dignitaries, and has been a CLE instructor in criminal law. He is currently a member of the American Bar Association's Committee on Standards for Criminal Justice.

Mr. Pope was born in New York, New York. He joined the firm in 2008.