Thomas Peterson
Thomas Peterson is a St. Louis native, and graduate of Lindbergh High School and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. In 2014, he graduated from the St. Louis University School of Law School and was admitted to the Missouri Bar. He was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 2017.
While in law school, Thomas was a member of the environmental moot court appellate litigation team that took part in national competitions in 2013 and 2014. He also interned at the St. Louis City Public Defender’s Office, and earned experience in criminal defense by researching and briefing cases, and performing second-chair duties in a number of jury trials, ranging from child molestation to misdemeanor assault. He then interned for two years at the Kessler Williams law firm under the supervision of well-known criminal defense attorney Brad Kessler.
Following law school, Thomas took a position as an assistant public defender in Farmington, Missouri, where he was responsible for a general felony trial caseload.
Since joining Niehoff Peterson & Cortez, LLC in 2015, Thomas has focused his practice areas to federal and state courts in Illinois and Missouri, handling felonies, misdemeanors, juvenile, and expungements. He has also successfully tried over 25 felony trials, with a very high-percentage of them ending in not guilty verdicts.