Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart, Inc.

Described by National Journal as one of the “leading Democratic lobbyists” and by The Hill as the consultant “Wall Street turns to…for representation in the Democratic-controlled Congress,” Jeffrey Peck brings 25 years of legislative, regulatory and litigation expertise from his service on Capitol Hill and in the private sector. Mr. Peck is widely viewed as an expert at managing multi-year issue advocacy campaigns. His experience includes four Supreme Court nominations (Bork, Kennedy, Souter and Thomas), proposed constitutional amendments to ban flag burning, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, the Class Action Fairness Act, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, employee stock options and a range of other high-profile financial services issues.

A graduate of Duke University and the University of Chicago Law School, Mr. Peck has worked in both the private and public sectors. Between 1987 and 1992, he served as General Counsel and then Majority Staff Director of the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator Joseph R. Biden (D-DE). As Staff Director, Mr. Peck oversaw more than 20 professionals with an annual budget of $8 million.

Between 1993 and 2000, Mr. Peck was the Managing Partner for Government and Regulatory Affairs for Andersen Worldwide (the parent company of Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting). In that capacity, he managed a range of legislative and regulatory initiatives on behalf of the accounting profession.

Since early 2001, Mr. Peck has been a partner in Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart. He currently serves as the firm’s Chairman. Mr. Peck has extensive experience on insurance, financial services, accounting, private equity, SEC and capital market issues. In recognition of his work on the Class Action Fairness Act, The Hill profiled Mr. Peck as “the guy who knows how to get you to 60.” He has been quoted in more than 125 news articles including USA Today, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The San Jose Mercury News, The San Francisco Chronicle, CFO Magazine, and Fortune Magazine.

Mr. Peck also has been:

Profiled in The Hill, The Guy Who Knows How to Get You to 60, Lobbyist Jeff Peck Specializes in Centrist Democrats, March 30, 2004.
Named Most Effective Beltway Lobbyist by Corporate Financing Week, June 16, 2003, Volume XXIX, No. 24. www.corporatefinancingweek.com
Named as one of 100 Most Influential People in Finance in the category of Washington Warriors by Treasury and Risk Management, June 2004. www.treasuryandrisk.com
Named as one of 100 Most Influential People in Finance in the category of Corporate Mouthpieces (Perfecting the art of persuasion from a corporate perspective) by Treasury & Risk Management, June 6, 2003. www.treasuryandrisk.com
Profiled in Legal Times, May 6, 2002.
Quoted in more than 100 news articles including USA Today, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The San Jose Mercury News, The San Francisco Chronicle, CFO Magazine, and Fortune Magazine.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

	Accounting & Financial Services
	Coalition Management
	Congressional Investigative Preparation
	High Technology and Intellectual Property
	Legal and Tort Reform

EDUCATION

	JD, University of Chicago Law School
	BA, Duke University (Magna Cum Laude)

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

	General Counsel, Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate
	Majority Staff Director, Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate
	Managing Director, Office of Government and Regulatory Affairs, Andersen Worldwide
	Law Clerk, US District Court, Chicago

KEY LEGISLATION

	Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
	Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act
	The Sarbanes Oxley Act
	Class Action Fairness Act
	Fair Credit Reporting Act

MEDIA EXPERIENCE, MEMBERSHIPS, LECTURES, & PUBLICATIONS

	Television interviews on CNBC, PBS and C-SPAN.
	Guest Lecturer, Duke University and American University
	Member, Duke Law School, Board of Visitors
	Former Member, University of Chicago Law School, Board of Visitors
	Former Board Member and Treasurer, The Childrens Inn at NIH
	Opinion and Commentary, Legal Times, In Search of a Nominee's Judicial Philosophy. How to Get to the Core, July 12, 1993, at 19.
	With Robert Mednick, Proportionality: A Much Needed Solution to the Accountants Legal Liability Crisis, Valparaiso University Law Review, Spring 1994, Volume 28, Number 3.
	Users United: The Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990, Law and Contemporary Problems, Duke University, Summer 1991, Volume 54, Number 3.
	Proportionate Liability: Its Time is Now, presented to the Financial Times Conference on Limiting Professional Liability, London, November 4, 1996.