Peter C. Hershey

Peter Hershey practices in the areas of environmental, natural and cultural resources, land use, criminal, construction, maritime, procurement, and commercial law. He advises clients on a wide range of environmental, commercial, marine/maritime and other laws and regulations and is active in the firm’s trial and appellate litigation practice.
 
Prior to joining Rich & Henderson, Peter served as a judicial law clerk and senior judicial law clerk to the Honorable Christopher B. Kehoe, Maryland Court of Special Appeals, and as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Broughton M. Earnest, County Administrative Judge for the Talbot County Circuit Court.
  
Peter received a B.A. in History from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, and a J.D. from the William and Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law. While in law school, he served as a member of William and Mary’s Environmental Law and Policy Review and as a legal intern for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of General Counsel for International Law. While an undergrad, Peter served as a co-op for the Department of Defense. He is admitted to practice law in Maryland, the U.S. District Court for Maryland, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.