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Peter Barton Hutt

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63 years of experience
Business Law, Health Care Law, Gov & Administrative Law
District of Columbia

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Practice Areas

Business Law

Health Care Law

Gov & Administrative Law

Additional Practice Areas

Food Law
Medical Devices
Human Pharmaceuticals
Government Affairs
Food & Drug

Dietary Supplements
Cosmetics
Congressional & Federal Agency Advocacy

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Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

District of Columbia: District of Columbia Bar
Since 1961

Professional Experience

Senior Counsel: Covington & Burling LLP; Current

Education

New York University School of Law: LL.M.

Harvard Law School: LL.B.

and then drafted the legislation that created the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Based on this work: 2005; B.A. .language a, .language a.on:hover color:#000;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold; Peter Barton Hutt is a senior counsel in the Washington, DC law firm of Covington Burling, except for his four years in the government, prescription drug, nonprescription drug, dietary supplement, Drug, the Foundation for Biomedical Research, on the Board of Directors of eight venture capital startup companies, and on the Advisory Board of six venture capital firms.Mr. Hutt has served on the IOM Roundtable for the Development of Drugs and Vaccines Against AIDS, the NAS Committee on Research Training in the Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences, the NIH Advisory Committee to Review the Guidelines for Recombinant DNA Research, and five Office of Technology Assessment advisory panels. He was a member of the New Foods Panel of the White House Conference on Food, Mr. Hutt litigated pro bono cases on behalf of homeless alcoholics and drug addicts. He argued the only alcoholism case ever heard in the United States Supreme Court, Powell v. Texas, two-thirds of the States have repealed their statutes that had made public intoxication a criminal offense.He was named by The Washingtonian magazine as one of Washington's 50 best lawyers (out of more than 40,000) and as one of Washington's 100 most influential people; by the National Law Journal as one the 40 best health care lawyers in the United States; and by Global Counsel as the best FDA regulatory specialist in Washington, he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award for research advocacy by the Foundation for Biomedical Research.

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