Peter J. McNulty was born in Boston, Massachusetts; admitted to bar, 1979, California and U.S. District Court, Central District of California; 1983, U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of California; 1984, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California; 1986. Mr. McNulty obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Vermont (B.A., 1976) Phi Beta Kappa and then attended Boston College Law School (J.D., 1979) and was Assistant Editor of the American Journal of Law and Medicine from 1978-1979. Mr. McNulty is a member of the Los Angeles County and American Bar Associations, State Bar of California Bar, Lawyers-Pilots Bar Association, The American Association for Justice and Federal Bar Association.
After working for the Public Defender’s office in Boston, Massachusetts, Mr. McNulty was associated with the firm of Lawler, Felix and Hall in Los Angeles. In coordination with Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, he defended clients such as Chevron, Pacific Telephone & Telegraph, Amtrak and Miles Laboratories in complicated personal injury and commercial litigation matters.
Since 1983, Mr. McNulty has practiced with his own firm in Los Angeles, California. The McNulty Law Firm specializes in the preparation and trial of catastrophic personal injury actions and complicated commercial actions with a special emphasis in Class Action/Mass Tort Litigation. The firm has also represented numerous Asian corporations and high net worth individuals in complex business litigation in the United States and Hong Kong. The McNulty Law Firm has also represented Nevada Energy Company in energy related litigation against El Paso, Dynegy, Sempra and the Colorado River Commission. Mr. McNulty’s individual verdicts and settlements total, not including class actions, in excess of $375 Million U.S. Dollars. He has tried over 100 cases to verdict and is currently involved in multiple nationwide class actions involving medical devices and pharmaceutical products such as Accutane, Intra-Ocular Lenses and AMO. Mr. McNulty is also co-lead counsel and a member of the Plaintiffs’ steering committee in class action cases involving VW/Audi and UPS.
Mr. McNulty is “A.V.” rated by Martindale Hubble and is listed in Martindale Hubble’s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. Mr. McNulty has been an invited lecturer for courses sponsored by the American Bar Association, American Association for Justice and local Bar Associations. Mr. McNulty has also been selected as a Super Lawyer in 2010 and 2011 and is admitted to the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates forum, whose membership is limited to attorneys who have recovered Multi-Million dollar verdicts for their clients.