Washington, DC (May 15, 2025) – Retired Rawle & Henderson partner Peter J. Neeson participated in a panel discussion at the American Bar Association (ABA) Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) Conference in Washington, DC on May 8th.  Along with other TIPS Chairs Emeritus, the panel discussed trial preparation from the plaintiff’s, defense, insurance defense and administrative hearing perspectives.

Later that evening at the Gala held at the Smithsonian Museum of African American History & Culture, Mr. Neeson was recognized along with other TIPS Chairs Emeritus, for his many years of service to the legal profession.

Mr. Neeson has been an active member of the ABA since 1988.  In 2000, Mr. Neeson founded the TIPS National Trial Academy, in conjunction with the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada.  He was later elected to the Board of Trustees, served as its Treasurer, and became Chairman of the Board in 2014-2015

In February of 2004, Mr. Neeson was elected as Vice Chair of the ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section.  He assumed the chairmanship of this ABA Section in August of 2006.  In that same year, Mr. Neeson founded and co-inaugurated the TIPS Leadership Academy, a diversity program specifically designed to develop and train future community and bar leaders.  It was the first national bar association program of its kind. He is also a former member of TIPS Governing Council.

In 2012, in recognition of his leadership and efforts on behalf of the TIPS Section, Mr. Neeson was awarded the James K. Carroll Award, the most prestigious honor that can be bestowed on an ABA-TIPS member.

A practicing trial attorney for over 45 years, Mr. Neeson is the former Chair of Rawle & Henderson’s Environmental, Toxic and Mass Torts practice. For more information about Mr. Neeson, visit https://rawle.com/attorneys/peter-j-neeson/

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