PETER STRIS
Founding Partner
Stris & Maher LLP
Peter Stris is the founding partner of Stris & Maher, a 20-lawyer litigation boutique that represents clients in difficult and high-stakes business disputes. Based in Los Angeles, Stris leads the firm’s nationwide trial and appellate practice. Over his 20-year career, he has successfully first-chaired a wide variety of bet-the-farm business cases to verdict or judgment. He has also handled dozens of high-profile business appeals, including 10 he personally argued before the US Supreme Court.
Stris’ pathbreaking work has led both himself and Stris & Maher to nationwide prominence. Stris has delivered a number of major wins for clients, including, for example, as lead Supreme Court counsel in Novartis Pharmaceuticals v. HEC Pharma, an ultra-high-stakes patent dispute, Stris successfully defended HEC’s Federal Circuit victory before the Supreme Court. Facing elite IP and Supreme Court counsel from three AmLaw firms, Stris defeated Novartis’s emergency stay application and subsequent petition for certiorari.
