Noah Peters

BIO

Noah Peters is a partner in the New York office of Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors. He represents clients in high-stakes constitutional, regulatory, and enforcement disputes, frequently in matters that draw public and media scrutiny. His trial and appellate practice spans:

• Supreme Court and appellate litigation;

• First Amendment and constitutional litigation;

• Government enforcement defense;

• Regulatory and Administrative Procedure Act litigation;

• Labor and employment litigation;

• Injunctions and emergency relief;

• Crisis and media-sensitive disputes;

• Class actions; and

• Commercial litigation.

Representative matters

Noah was part of the team that briefed and won National Rifle Association v. Vullo (2024), a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that the First Amendment bars government officials from coercing private parties into punishing or suppressing speech the government disfavors—including by pressuring regulated financial-services and insurance entities.

He was also part of the trial team that represented the NRA against the New York Attorney General in high-profile enforcement litigation, through a six-week jury trial and a two-week bench trial involving nonprofit governance, regulatory enforcement, and financial controls. He helped defeat the NYAG's request for a compliance monitor and win dismissal of several claims.

He also helped win preliminary injunctive relief barring the U.S. Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from enforcing its pistol-brace rule against NRA members.

Government service

Noah rejoined Brewer after serving as Senior Advisor for Policy and Legal Affairs and Counsel at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). As a senior legal advisor to the OPM Director, he led legal strategy for governmentwide workforce initiatives affecting more than two million federal civilian employees.

Earlier, Noah served as Solicitor—chief legal officer and chief litigation counsel—of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the agency that administers the labor-management relations program for federal employees worldwide. He represented the agency in the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal courts of appeals, and the federal district courts, and briefed and argued cases raising novel questions of administrative and federal labor law, jurisdiction, separation of powers, and judicial review of agency action, winning multiple appeals and the dismissal of several district court suits.

Noah’s other representations include:

• Representing a terminated technology company whistleblower in arbitration and before the National Labor Relations Board, and defeating the company's motion to dismiss counterclaims;

• Representing clients in breach of contract and false advertising suits against a major technology company in California Superior Court and defeating the company's motion to dismiss, including claims testing the reach of Section 230 and platform-immunity defenses in online speech disputes; and

• Achieving favorable settlements on behalf of terminated university professors after defeating the university's summary judgment motions.

Noah began his career as a law clerk to the Hon. David A. Katz of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He then practiced at Kaye Scholer (now Arnold & Porter) in New York, where he litigated labor and employment, antitrust, commercial, and class action matters, and later at Bailey & Ehrenberg in Washington, D.C., representing university professors and federal employees.

He writes frequently on current legal issues and has been quoted by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Politico, and others. His writing has appeared in Bloomberg Law, Law360, and Law and Liberty.