The Association of Wage And Hour Attorneys

The Winebrake Law Firm, PC

Dresher, PA

215-884-2491

Attorney Peter Winebrake has litigated hundreds of civil lawsuits in the United States District Courts. The information below is included to provide some background on Peter Winebrake’s history and experience.

Peter Winebrake graduated magna cum laude from Lehigh University in 1988. He then went on to Temple University School of Law, where he worked as Managing Editor for the Temple Law Review before graduating cum laude in 1991.

Having completed law school, Peter Winebrake proceeded to work in the New Hampshire Supreme Court, where he was a law clerk for Justice William R. Johnson between September of 1991 and August of 1992.

Peter Winebrake then went on to serve as an Assistant Corporation Counsel at the General Litigation Unit of the New York City Law Department. He stayed in this position from September 1992 to February 1997. In that time, Peter Winebrake represented agencies and officials of New York City in various complex litigation, including federal civil rights lawsuits and employment lawsuits.

For the next two years, Peter Winebrake worked as a litigation associate with the Philadelphia law firm of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP. From 1997 to 1999, he worked with the firm on complex litigation matters in the federal and state courts.

At that point, Peter Winebrake returned to public service and began working with the Philadelphia Law Department. In his time there, he took on high-profile and complex federal civil rights matters, representing City agencies as well as City officials including former Mayor Edward Rendell.

Then, in 2001, Peter Winebrake was appointed Chief Deputy City Solicitor for the Labor and Employment Unit of the Philadelphia Law Department. This appointment gave Peter Winebrake the opportunity to assume the responsibility of being the City’s chief labor and employment lawyer. Managing a staff of eleven attorneys, Peter Winebrake oversaw all municipal labor and employment matters with which the City of Philadelphia dealt.

The next step in Peter Winebrake’s legal progression took him to the Philadelphia law firm of Trujillo Rodriguez & Richards, LLC, which he joined in 2002. At the Firm, Peter Winebrake drew on his labor law experiences with the City. He spent the next five years litigating and resolving a wide variety of wage and hour, employment and civil rights lawsuits. These suits arose under both state and federal laws, and the experience prepared him to move on to establish his own firm.

The Winebrake Law Firm was founded by Peter Winebrake in January of 2007. His Firm represents individual cases for single or small groups of workers as well as class/collective action suits, in which large numbers of workers find themselves in similar situations. Peter Winebrake’s firm concentrates on Federal Court litigation, striving to vindicate the rights of workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") and other similar wage and hour laws.

In 1996, the Bar Association of the City of New York honored Peter Winebrake with an annual prize, recognizing him as a municipal lawyer who has exercised outstanding achievement.

In 2001, the Fraternal Order of Police honored Peter Winebrake with an award of recognition that acknowledged his unselfish commitment to law enforcement and to the citizens of Philadelphia.

In 2005, the Pennsylvania Statewide Latino Coalition recognized Peter Winebrake with an award commending his tireless civil rights efforts on behalf of Pennsylvania’s Latino community.

Currently, Peter Winebrake serves the American Association of Justice (formerly “ATLA”) by serving on the Executive Committee of its Employment Rights Section. He has also been appointed to service by the Federal Court, where he was on the Mediation Panel of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Peter Winebrake has frequently lectured on employment law in a variety of forums. These forums include the 2006 Workplace Injury Litigation Group (“WILG”) conference in Orlando, Florida; the 2005 ATLA Convention in Toronto, Canada; the Philadelphia Law Department’s continuing legal education program; the Temple School of Law; the University of Pennsylvania School of Law; and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.

Peter Winebrake has also published articles in numerous publications, including the Temple Law Review, the Detroit College of Law Review and the Pennsylvania Township News.