Peter Ko

Peter Ko is a partner in Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP’s San Diego office focused on complex investigation, litigation, trial, and appeals.

Before joining the Firm, Peter served 27 years as a federal prosecutor in Nevada and the Southern District of California, handling cases involving fraud, corruption, racketeering, and other crimes. He tried dozens of cases and litigated scores of appeals in federal courts and was assigned to handle numerous high-profile prosecutions of national or international significance. Since 2010, Peter also served at points as First Assistant United States Attorney, Chief of Criminal, Chief of Appeals, Chief of National Security and Cybercrimes, and Senior Litigation Counsel. While at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Peter received the Attorney General’s Claudia J. Flynn Award for Professional Responsibility as well as the Director’s Award for Superior Performance. He has taught trial advocacy, evidence, discovery, and other litigation subjects for the DOJ and other agencies.

Peter graduated from the University of California, San Diego in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the UCLA School of Law in 1997 and was an editor for the UCLA Law Review.

• Attorney General’s Claudia J. Flynn Award for Professional Responsibility
• Director’s Award for Superior Performance, United States Attorney’s Office

• UCLA School of Law, J.D., 1997
• University of California, San Diego, B.A., 1992

• California
• United States District Court for the Central District of California