More at home with innovation than convention, Peter Zeughauser is widely regarded as one of the legal industry’s premier strategists.  A broadly skilled consultant and speaker, Peter specializes in law firm mergers and combinations, firm-wide strategic business planning, and devising strategies for increasing revenues and profitability and strengthening firm values and culture.  He also works with firms to develop and align practice group and office growth strategies with firm-wide strategy, and to craft client strategies that promote long-term relationships.

Peter launched his consulting practice in 1995.  He works with top-ranked global law firms, corporate law departments, and corporations doing business in the legal sector.  A former chairman of the American Corporate Counsel Association (ACCA, now the Association of General Counsel), Peter developed the keen legal acumen he brings to his consulting during twenty years of legal practice, including over a decade as senior vice president and general counsel of The Irvine Company.  Under his leadership, the company’s legal department was ranked in a 1995 National Law Journal survey as one of the country’s top ten and cited for being in the vanguard of a powerful client-led legal industry reform movement.

Peter is the author of Lawyers Are From Mercury, Clients Are From Pluto (ClientFocus Press, 1999).  Since 1996 he has shared his insights on the legal profession as a contributing editor of The American Lawyer magazine, for which he writes a regular column on management, business development, and leadership issues.  Frequently quoted and featured in publications as diverse as The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Business Week, The Washington Post, American Lawyer, the ABA Journal, California Lawyer, Corporate Counsel Magazine, the New York Law Journal, the Recorder, and the Daily Journal, Peter is a highly sought-after speaker at legal and business forums.  He also has developed an unparalleled reputation for designing and moderating peer group leadership roundtables in which law firm chairmen and other industry leaders identify best practices, benchmark their firms, and share lessons learned.

A fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, Peter graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and St. Louis University School of Law, where he was elected to Alpha Sigma Nu.

Zeughauser Group is the firm of choice for legal industry leaders seeking to increase their competitive advantage and profitability, enhance market position, and strengthen organizational culture.