Peter N. Leritz has been a partner in the St. louis office of Hennessy & Roach PC since 2016, where he serves at the Chair of the St. Louis General liability Practice Group and as Chair of the firm's Auto Liability Group. He has practiced law in the St. Louis area, and throughout Missouri and Southern Illinois, concentrating on the defense of civil lawsuits. He has tried cases in the state and federal courts in Missouri and Illinois, and has appeared in the appellate courts of both states and the Supreme Court of Missouri. After graduating cum laude from St. Louis University School of Law in 1993, he served as clerk to Chief Federal Judge Edward L. Filippine of the Easten District of Missouri. Peter is a native of St. Louis who lives in Webster Groves, Missouri with his wife Pam and with those of their four nearly grown children who are not yet fully on their own.