Peter C Riley, Attorney

Peter C. Riley attended the University of Iowa. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration majoring in Accounting and Financial Management in May of 1976. He then sat for and passed the May, 1976 CPA exam, and was issued his certificate as a Certified Public Accountant by the Iowa Board of Accountancy in August of 1980.

Peter C. Riley attended the University of Iowa College of Law and graduated with a Juris Doctorate in 1980. He is admitted to practice before the Iowa Supreme Court, the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern District of Iowa and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

In 1986, he was invited to be a Fellow of the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is also a member of the Iowa Trial Lawyers Association and American Trial Lawyers Association.

Peter C. Riley is engaged in all facets of trial practice including commercial, corporate, real estate and probate litigation, in addition to personal injury litigation. During the farm crisis in Iowa in the 1980s, he began actively representing farm debtors and was a leader in the development of lender liability law in Iowa. See for example Peterson v. First National Bank of Iowa, 392 N.W.2d 158 (Iowa App. 1986) and Graber v. District Court, 410 N.W.2d 224 (Iowa 1987).

• Knickerbocker v. First National Bank of Oelwein 1987

• Graber v. District Court for Washington County 1987

• Coster v. Crookham 1991

• Clark v. Mincks 1985