Title: Partner
Direct: (202) 967-4103
Mobile: (646) 902-1773
Email: pblack@millsblack.com

vCARD: Peter F. Black

Education

  • Dickinson College ~ 2008

  • Tulane University Law School ~ 2014

Bar Admissions

  • District of Columbia

  • Maryland

  • New York

  • Washington

  • California

    • U.S. Central District of California

    • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  • Louisiana

  • Supreme Court of the United States

 
 

PETER F. BLACK, Partner

Peter F. Black is a senior member of Mills Black LLP’s maritime practice. He has extensive experience handling litigation matters, resolving commercial and regulatory disputes, representing clients before federal agencies, federal courts and in Congress, as well as initiating and coordinating shipowner responses to a full range of shipping and transportation-related incidents.

Prior to law school, Peter worked for several years as coordinator for a freight forwarding company, specializing in nuclear cargo transportation. After starting his own surveying company based out of New Orleans in 2012 and graduating law school in 2014, Peter worked as an attorney and claims executive for an International Group P&I club in New York City for several years. During that time, he handled a wide array of defense claims and was responsible for responding to and managing emergency responses to serious shipping casualties around the globe. In 2017, Peter joined a boutique maritime and transportation law firm in Long Beach, California. There, Peter’s practice focused on maritime arrests and attachments, as well as cruise line and terminal defense litigation. Peter joined Tom Mills and Allen Black at Mills Black LLP in 2020.

Peter graduated from Dickinson College with a B.A. in psychology and political science in 2008. He attended the University of Baltimore School of Law before transferring to Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, where he received his J.D. and Certificate of Specialization in Admiralty and Maritime Law in 2014. During his time at Tulane, Peter served as Senior Communications Editor for the Tulane Maritime Law Journal and was a member of the Maritime Law Society and Tulane Inn of Court.

Peter is an active Proctor member of the Maritime Law Association and is the former Chair of the Young Lawyer Committee as well as Vice Chair of the Website and Technology Committee. He is also a Vice Chair on the ABA’s Admiralty and Maritime Law Committee. Peter has hosted panels and given numerous presentations on maritime issues including shipowner liability for infectious disease exposure, the legal implications of blockchain in shipping, general average, and several presentations on the interaction between offshore wind and maritime law, including the application of the Jones Act and insurance implications for vessel and operator interests.

Peter is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Maryland, New York, California, Washington, and Louisiana.