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Ben is a civil litigation attorney with more than 20 years of experience. Much of Ben's practice focuses on partnership disputes and fiduciary litigation. These cases often involve ownership or control disputes between members of professional partnerships, officers or shareholders of closely held companies, joint venture partnerships, or joint venture real estate development projects, as well as trustee litigation and will contests or similar disputes involving probate and estate planning. Apart from his partnership and fiduciary litigation practice, Ben also regularly handles general business litigation, employment matters, personal injury cases, and zoning disputes. Ben first established his own trial law firm in 2006. Prior to that, he was a trial lawyer in the Boston office of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P., a national litigation firm based in Minneapolis, and at Looney & Grossman LLP, a former prominent Boston firm with a long history in the area.

Peter has more than twenty years of experience advising and counseling businesses and individual clients. In November 2019, he formed Stevenson Barrett LLP with his longtime colleague and friend, Ben Stevenson. Peter's broad litigation and counseling experience includes representing businesses and individuals in commercial and business litigation, real estate disputes, employment disputes, probate matters, and trademark and trade secrets disputes. He also has counseled insurers and policyholders at all stages of the claims-handling process, from initial investigations, providing coverage opinions and advice, to the litigation, trial, and appeal of litigated coverage disputes. Peter also advises and counsels for-profit and not-for-profit entities on formation, corporate governance and related matters, as well as the selection, coordination, and oversight of outside counsel for these entities. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College (A.B. 1993) and Northeastern University School of Law (J.D. 1998). He is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.