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Peter Karanjia

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Work Department

Intellectual Property and Technology; Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations; Telecom; State Attorneys General

Position

Partner; Chair, Administrative Law Appellate Practice

Career

Peter Karanjia is chair of DLA Piper’s Administrative Law Appellate practice. Drawing on his experience as Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission (2010-2013) and Special Counsel to the Solicitor General of New York (2007-2010), Peter focuses on appellate, regulatory, and complex civil litigation.

Peter has extensive experience handling government-facing litigation and enforcement matters, including appeals and trial court litigation involving constitutional issues, federal preemption, and privacy and cybersecurity matters. He has successfully briefed and argued major appeals covered in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other national publications. In addition, Peter has handled high-stakes challenges to government action in trial courts across the country, including a recent First Amendment challenge to Florida’s first-of-its-kind social media “deplatforming” law, which restricts moderation practices by a wide variety of online services providers.

Peter is also actively involved in pro bono and civic work, including regularly filing amicus briefs in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of members of Congress, bar associations and government officials. He chairs the national board of the American Constitution Society and is an elected member of the American Law Institute (which publishes Restatements of the Law, Model Codes, and Principles of Law).

Education

LL.M., Harvard Law School; M.A., University of Oxford;  B.A., University of Oxford