Peter K. Tompa, Esq., is of counsel to Bailey & Ehrenberg, LLP. He previously served as a partner at Dillingham & Murphy; McDermott, Will & Emery; and Carr Goodson Warner, the predecessor firm to Carr Maloney. Over the past thirty years, Mr. Tompa has appeared in numerous trial and appellate courts, representing large and small businesses, non-profits, and individuals in civil matters. His diverse practice has encompassed both straightforward and complex litigation relating to environmental insurance coverage claims, patents for drugs and medical devices, product liability claims, employment and labor claims, and civil forfeitures. Mr. Tompa has lobbied members of the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch in an effort to ensure that his small business clients receive fair treatment from federal regulators. His advocacy has received notice in the media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Art Newspaper, CBS News and Voice of America. Mr. Tompa has written and lectured about insurance coverage and cultural property issues, and he is a contributor to K. Fitz Gibbon ed., Who Owns the Past?: Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, and the Law (Rutgers University Press, 2005). He has been a vice-chair of the American Bar Association’s Art & Cultural Heritage Law Committee and is slated to become its next co-chair. He also serves on several non-profit boards. Mr. Tompa received his Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from the American University Washington College of Law. Following law school, Mr. Tompa served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Frank E. Schwelb in both the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.