BIO
Noah Peters is a partner in the Dallas office of Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors. He has extensive experience in high-profile trial and appellate advocacy, especially in the fields of Labor & Employment and Civil Rights.
At Brewer, he was part of the team that briefed and won the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in National Rifle Association v. Vullo (2024). The Court in Vullo reaffirmed—unanimously—that government officials cannot coerce private parties to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors. Such coercion, the Court held, violates the First Amendment.
He also helped represent the NRA against the New York Attorney General in a six-week jury trial and two-week bench trial, including multiple rounds of motion practice and briefing. In that role, he helped defeat the NYAG’s request for a compliance monitor and win the dismissal of several claims.
Mr. Peters was also part of the team that won a nationwide injunction stopping the U.S. Department of Justice and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms from enforcing its rule outlawing braced pistols against members of the NRA.
Before joining Brewer, Mr. Peters served as Solicitor of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, a federal agency that administers the labor-management relations program for 2.1 million federal employees worldwide. In this senior-level position, Mr. Peters was the agency’s chief legal officer and briefed and/or argued 17 different cases before federal appellate courts, many of them involving novel questions of labor law and/or federal jurisdiction. He successfully briefed, argued and won numerous federal appeals, as well as the dismissal of multiple federal district court lawsuits.
Mr. Peters’ experience also includes:
Representing terminated technology company whistleblower in proceedings in arbitration and before National Labor Relations Board and defeating company’s motion to dismiss counterclaims;
Representing clients in breach of contract and false advertising suits against major technology company in California Superior Court and defeating company’s motion to dismiss;
Achieving favorable settlements on behalf of terminated university professors after defeating university’s summary judgment motions;
Achieving favorable settlement on behalf of federal employee who brought claims for Title VII retaliation after defeating U.S. Department of Justice’s summary judgment motion in federal court;
Representing management employee in discrimination and retaliation suit against major convenience store chain and achieving favorable settlement after defeating defendant’s motion to dismiss in federal court; and
Achieving favorable settlement on quantum meruit and Fair Credit Reporting Act counterclaims of an individual who had been sued by a lending company.
Mr. Peters served as a law clerk to a federal judge after law school. He writes frequently on current legal issues and has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Politico, and many others.
education
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2009
M.A. in American Legal History, University of Virginia, 2009
B.A. in Politics and History, University of Virginia, 2006
bar and court admissions
Washington, D.C.
New York
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
U.S. Court of Federal Claims