Peter Jarvis practices primarily in the area of attorney professional responsibility and risk management. He advises lawyers, law firms and corporate legal departments in legal ethics, risk management and disciplinary defense matters, and he serves as an expert witness in such matters.

His practice has also included antitrust, appellate, business tort, general contract and UCC litigation, labor and employment litigation, products liability, construction-related, tax, title insurance and intellectual property matters. Mr. Jarvis is the Partner-in-Charge of the firm's Portland office and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He is also the Leader of Hinshaw’s Lawyers Professional Responsibility/Risk Management Practice Group. Prior to joining Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in August 2003, Mr. Jarvis was a partner with Stoel Rives, LLP, which he joined in 1976. For many years, Mr. Jarvis had primary responsibility for serving the professional responsibility needs of the firm.

Mr. Jarvis is a former board member and past president of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. Bar committees on which he has served include the Washington State Bar Association's Committee on the Future of the Profession; Washington State Bar Committee to Define the Practice of Law; Washington State Bar Rules of Professional Conduct Committee; Oregon State Bar Legal Ethics Committee; Oregon State Bar Ad Hoc Committee on Attorney Advertising; and the Oregon State Bar Rights of the Handicapped Committee.

Mr. Jarvis has received the ALI-ABA Harrison Tweed Special Merit Award (1993), and the Oregon Bar Association's President’s Membership Services Award (1991). He is a member of the American Law Institute.

Mr. Jarvis has been selected for inclusion in the 2010 edition of “The Best Lawyers in America®” in the area of ethics and professional responsibility law. He holds the AV® Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, its highest rating for ethics and legal ability.

In 2011 Mr. Jarvis was selected for inclusion on the Super Lawyers list by Oregon Super Lawyers magazine. In addition to in-house and private CLEs for individual law firms and corporate legal departments, Mr. Jarvis has participated in approximately two dozen public legal ethics/risk management CLEs per year since the late 1980s.

Mr. Jarvis is a co-author of Hazard, Hodes & Jarvis, The Law of Lawyering, one of the leading national treatises on professional responsibility issues, published by Aspen Publishing. He is also a co-author of the second edition of Risk Management, published in 2007 by the American Bar Association.

He was the former editor of Hinshaw’s Lawyers for the Profession® eAlerts. In addition, Mr. Jarvis has authored or co-authored many articles and chapters on attorney professional responsibility and risk management issues. His publications include:

• “Civility: The Ultimate Legal Weapon?” co-author, Bloomberg Law Reports – Law Firm Management, 2011.
• "The Ends Don't Justify Illegal or Unethical Means," Los AngelesDaily Journal, June 16, 2006.
• “Patent Opinion Firm’s Inadvertent Conflict of Interest Bars Evidence of Patent Opinion,” co-author, The Business Suit, a publication of the Defense Research Institute’s Commercial Litigation Committee, June 2006.
• “Learning from Rocket Science,” 14 Prof Law 26 (2004).
• Washington Legal Ethics Deskbook, co-editor and multiple chapter author, Washington State Bar Association, (2003).
• The Ethical Oregon Lawyer, Co-editor and multiple chapter author, (OSB CLE 2006 and 2003).
• Oregon Rules of Professional Responsibility Annotated, coauthor, (OLI 2003).
• “Small World After All or Ball of Confusion? Some Thoughts on National Multijurisdictional Practice,” 34 V and J Transnat’l L 1169 (2001).
• “Aspiring to be a Lawyer-Mench,” 61 Or St B Bull 78 (2001), 54 Wash St B News 17 (2000) and 11 Prof Law 15 (2000).
• “Inside an In-House Legal Ethics Practice,” 14 Notre Dame J L Ethics & Pub Pol’y 103 (2000) (with Mark Fucile).
• “Zealousness in Contract Drafting: Where to Draw the Line,” 10 Prof Law 153 (1999).
• “Sixteen Years on Screen: Oregon’s Lateral Hire Screening Rules,” 10 Prof Law 2 (1999).
• “Eight Privilege-Related Aspects of Corporate Investigations,” Oregon Litig J (October 1998) (with Mark Fucile).
• "When Waiver Should Not be Good Enough: An Analysis of Current Client Conflicts Law,” 33 Willamette L Rev 145 (1997) (with Brad Tellam).
• Co-author, "Competence and Confidentiality in the Context of Cellular Telephone, Cordless Telephone and E-Mail Communications,” 33 Willamette L Rev 467 (1997).
• Co-author, "Professionalism in the Late 1990s: The Four Components of the Professional Lawyer,” 56 Or St B Bull 23 (1996) and 181 NJ Law 19 (1996).