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Peter Ehrhardt, Attorney at Law, graduated from the University of Minnesota law school in 1980. He moved to Alaska that same year and began working for a small personal injury firm in Bethel, Alaska. In 1983, Mr. Ehrhardt moved to Sitka, Alaska, and worked for a small general practice firm there. In 1984, Mr. Ehrhardt moved to Kenai, Alaska, where he resides today.
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For the past 10 years, Mr. Ehrhardt's practice has consisted chiefly of major civil litigation. He was co-counsel in In Re: Glacier Bay, a class action arising out of a 1987 oil spill in upper Cook Inlet which resulted in a $51 million settlement. He also was co-counsel in In Re: Sitka Pulp Mill, another class action involving the pollution of Sitka Sound. Mr. Ehrhardt was a member of the plaintiffs' trial team, which obtained a $5 billion verdict in the In Re: Exxon Valdez litigation. For his work on that case, Mr. Ehrhardt, as a member of the trial team, received the 1995 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, a national organization of trial lawyers.
Recent Work
More recently, Mr. Ehrhardt has been involved in major consumer-oriented litigation against large corporations and insurance companies. For example, in 1999, Mr. Ehrhardt and Rick Friedman of Friedman Rubin and White obtained a $153 million verdict against State Farm® in a case involving the wrongful termination of an agent. Currently, Mr. Ehrhardt's practice focuses primarily on personal injury and commercial litigation, including insurance litigation. Mr. Ehrhardt also is active in local community affairs. He is a past president of the Kenai Peninsula United Way, has served on many other volunteer boards, and coaches high school soccer. He has 3 children and is an avid outdoorsman and skier.
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