Peter Romary

Peter Romary is an attorney, arbitrator, mediator, and internationally recognized expert and trainer in the areas of detection of deception, interviewing, elicitation, risk management, threat assessment and management, conflict resolution, negotiation, and litigation risk management. He has worked and consulted for government- and private-sector clients, and has lectured to audiences, throughout the U.S. and abroad. In 2002, Peter was recognized by the National Law Journal as one of the "Top 40 Trial Lawyers Under 40 Years Old" in the U.S.A.; in the same year he received the National Law Journal Pro Bono Award. He has been honored for his work in 14 states, and has received the highest civilian honors awarded by several of those states. Among his other honors are the Ellis Island Medal of Honor; the American Police Hall of Fame Honor Award for Distinguished Public Service; the inaugural National Crime Victim's Bar Association Frank Carrington Champion of Civil Justice Award; and North Carolina's Order of the Long Leaf Pine. In 2010, for his contributions to safety in higher education, Peter received the highest honor bestowed on behalf of the 215,000 students of the University of North Carolina system: the UNC Association of Student Government's John Sanders Award for Student Advocacy. Peter holds both English and American law degrees from the University of Reading and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is admitted to practice in North Carolina, the District of Columbia, and before the U.S. Supreme Court. Peter has also formed QVerity Legal, a law firm utilizing the proprietary QVerity detection of deception, elicitation, and analytical techniques. The firm services private and government clients around the globe in a wide range of legal, risk management, crisis management and business matters. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Campbell University School of Law, where he received the 2014-15 'Adjunct Professor of the Year Award'.