Economic Experience
In 1979 while in the U.S. Foreign Service, Mr. Flournoy served first as a Science Officer in Mexico City, where he dealt with fisheries, nuclear and geothermal energy, pollution, and toxic waste (1980-1982). He later served as an international economist in Washington, tracking economic and social issues in the United Nations, the World Bank, and various regional financial organizations such as the African Development Bank (1982-1983).
Trade Regulation Experience
As a trial attorney with the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division (1968-1970), Mr. Flournoy conducted Grand Jury investigations into price fixing and investigations of vertical, horizontal, and conglomerate mergers. Later, with Sullivan, Jones and Archer (1970-1974), Mr. Flournoy defended suits brought under the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Clayton Act, the 1933 and 1934 Securities Acts, the California Cartwright Act, and various false advertising and deceptive practices statutes, as well as brought class action price fixing suits and administering multimillion dollar class action settlements.
Teaching Experience
Mr. Flournoy has served as an adjunct professor and lectured on Mexican Commercial Law and International Law of the Sea.
Biography: Peter H. Flournoy
Peter H. Flournoy is a graduate of the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio (B.A. Economics 1965), and the University of San Diego School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 1968).
Since 1989, Mr. Flournoy has represented people and various business entities involved in foreign commerce or investment. This has included litigation as well as transactional assignments in over 50 countries around the world. The firm has also represented clients before the the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Marine Fisheries Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, State, and Commerce, and the International Boundary and Water Commission.
Background
Mr. Flournoy has a background in international diplomatic, general business, antitrust and trade regulation, customs, immigration, environmental, maritime, and oceans law. He maintains regular close association with legal offices in Mexico, American Samoa, the Cook Islands, and the Marshall Islands, as well as in Hawaii, Alaska, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.
Prior to 1989, as a member of the U.S. State Department's Legal Adviser's Office, Mr. Flournoy provided legal advice for the negotiation of international agreements and treaties in the areas of fisheries, marine mammal conservation, deep seabed mining, the environment, and scientific and technological cooperation. He also handled litigation and administrative actions under the Magnuson Fisheries Conservation and Management Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Lacey Act, and the Fisherman's Protective Act. Mr. Flournoy also gained valuable legislative experience as one of the drafters of the South Pacific Tuna Act of 1988, the regulations promulgated thereunder, and the 1986 Amendments to the Deep Seabed Mining Act.
Community Service
After returning to California in 1989 from Washington, D.C., Mr. Flournoy was selected for the Executive Committee of the State Bar of California's Environmental Law Section and its Legislative Review Subcommittee and asked to serve on the Public Policy and Border Environmental Advisory Committee of the Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias. In 1994 he was appointed to the Advisory Council for the Southwestern Center for Environmental Research and Policy, where he presently serves as co-chairperson. He has served as a member of the San Diego County Bar Association's Delegation to the State Bar Conference of Delegates over several years. In the past Mr. Flournoy has served as the Chair of the Highly Migratory Species Advisory Panel to the Pacific Fisheries Management Council and he currently is Chairman of the General Advisory Council to the U.S. Section of the Inter American Tropical Tuna Commission.