Background
Baird, Peter D. was born in 1941 in Syracuse, New York, United States.
Baird, Peter D. was born in 1941 in Syracuse, New York, United States.
Carleton College (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1963). Stanford University (Bachelor of Laws, 1966). Carleton College (Honorary Doctor of Law, 1992).
Worked at Lewis and Roca, LLP (Phoenix, Arizona) specializing in General Practice including Trial and Appellate Practice. Alternative Dispute Resolution, Banking and Commercial Finance, Bankruptcy, Commercial, Construction, Corporate and Securities, Criminal, Environmental, Estate Planning, Government Relations, Health Care, Immigration, Intellectual Property and Technology and The Internet, International, Labor and Employment, Land Use, Product Liability, Professional Liability, Real Estate, Sports and Entertainment, Taxation, Tort Litigation and Workers' Compensation. Admitted to the bar, 1967, Arizona.
Phi Beta Kappa. Listed in the Best Lawyers in America. Associate Editor, Litigation. Author: "Critics Must Confess, Miranda Was The Right Decision," The Wall Street Journal, July 13, 1991.
"Remembering La Roux," Newsweek, December 16, 1996. "Forgiveness," The New York Times Magazine, July 7, 1991. "Moscow Memories," American Heritage, November, 1991.
"Out of the Dark," Men's Health, April, 1992. "Oyez, Oyez, Oyez," American Heritage, November 1994. "The Christmas Eve Tree," Phoenix Magazine, December 1994.
"Remembering Scrooge, The Chicago Tribune Magazine, December 24, 1995. "I Say," The Cleveland Plain Dealer Magazine, December 22, 1996. "You Have The Right To Remain Silent," Phoenix Magazine, June 1966.
"Tenderly," Friends, September/October 1996. "Holy Krishna," 2D Litigation 59, Winter 1994. "A Study of Arizona Lease Terminations," 9 Arizona Law Review 187, 1967.
"Charitable Deductions for Pro Bono Publico Professional Services," 50 Texas Law Review 441, 1972. "How Lawyers Lose Their Way," 9 Litigation 8, Fall, 1982. "Litigating in the Bermuda Triangle," 9 Litigation 22, Summer, 1983.
"Ballooning Toward A New Due Diligence for Litigators," Arizona Bar Journal, February/March, 1985. "Legal Creativity: Flashes, Blocks and Toads," 12 Litigation 28, Summer, 1986. "Getting Exhibits into Evidence and Other Deadtime Stories," Arizona Bar Journal, August/September 1987.
"Bedside Manners and Desktop Distractions," 13 Litigation 33, Winter, 1987. "Corpus Juris Hocus Pocus," Arizona Attorney, October, 1989. "Miranda Memories," 16 Litigation 43, Winter, 1990.
"The Confessions of Ernesto Arturo Miranda," Arizona Attorney, October, 1991. Judge Pro Tem, Arizona Court of Appeals, 1991 and Arizona Superior Court, 1992. Faculty Member and Lecturer, National Institute of Trial Advocacy, 1987, 1988.
Lewis and Roca was founded in Phoenix, Arizona in 1950 by Orme Lewis and Paul Roca. The firm, now one of the Southwest's largest, maintains offices in Phoenix and Tucson and provides a wide range of legal services to a diverse business and financial client base with local, state, national and international interests. The firm also provides extensive legal services to tax-exempt organizations and to public sector entities.
Member: American Bar Association.
