2022-Present:        Chief Trial Counsel, Cage & Miles, LLP

Senior Counsel overseeing the firm’s case strategy and preparation for trial, motion, and other in-court proceedings while training and mentoring the firm’s lawyers in all aspects of court presentation; working with the firm’s named partners in developing new areas of practice, including the civil prosecution of Elder Abuse matters, healthcare entity representation and professional licensing defense

2011- 2022:           California Deputy Attorney General

State-wide Prosecutor handling the vertical prosecution of both civil and criminal matters (from case investigation to review/issuance through jury trial/sentencing and appeal) of major felony healthcare and financial fraud cases as well as matters involving the abuse of elders/dependent adults

-       responsibility for upwards of an 80-matter caseload across multiple jurisdictions;

-       responsible for the case supervision of up to 5 investigative teams;

-       work extensively with multi-agency teams in complex healthcare fraud investigations;

-       prosecuted more cases through jury trial and verdict in the last 3 years than has been conducted by my Bureau in the last 5 years combined;

-       handled multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional civil Qui Tam actions involving joint prosecutions with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and numerous State Attorneys General;

-       provide advisory input to my state-wide Bureau on various legal policies including:  the use of an investigative Criminal Grand Jury, criminal issuing guidelines, plea set-asides, search warrant preparation, and the analysis & re-drafting of pending legislative efforts in healthcare fraud.

2003 - 2011:          Principal, Law Offices of Peter F. Murray

Private practitioner focused on the representation of peace officers/other government employees both in administrative/civil and criminal proceedings; as well as general criminal defense primarily in the area of “White Collar”/Financial crimes, in both the State and Federal courts.  Representative case work:

-       the defense of numerous federal and state law enforcement agents facing criminal and civil liability for on-the-job violations - took one such case up on Appeal resulting in a published appellate decision and filed a subsequent Petition for Review to the Cal. Supreme Court;

-       the defense of a college administrator in a high-profile six-week jury trial consisting of numerous white-collar crime and Government Conflict-of-Interest allegations – successful in dramatically reducing Client’s custodial exposure over the D.A.’s opposition; brought the case up on appeal to the Fourth District Court of Appeal;

-       the defense of a healthcare professional in a twelve-defendant felony Indictment based on 17,000 pages of discovery brought by the state Attorney General’s office – co-authored and argued the successful Motion to Dismiss the Indictment;

-       the successful representation of a California county department in the prosecution of civil financial elder abuse cases litigated in the Probate Court, included litigation in Federal Bankruptcy Court;

-       represented multiple Clients in federal asset forfeiture matters – successfully negotiated the return of assets;

-       represented a Client charged with an Insurance Fraud scheme – negotiated a resolution wherein the case was eventually Dismissed by the State;

-       the successful representation of multiple management/financial professionals in a large civil fraud action stemming from the operation of a Building Industry trade group;

-       handled deal negotiations for multiple small business entities, including a professional sports agency.

1992 - 2003:          San Diego Deputy District Attorney

Prosecuted over 75 cases through jury trial and verdict, conducted over 100 preliminary examinations, prosecuted over 30 cases through bench trial, presented cases to the Grand Jury; handled cases throughout the spectrum of criminal law: crimes of violence (including Murder and Manslaughter), theft (including Embezzlement and Conspiracy to Commit Extortion), fraud (including Insurance and Investment Frauds), Tax Evasion, Sale of Narcotics, and sexual abuse.  Worked in every branch of the office, including Juvenile Division.

1990 - 1992:          Associate Attorney,

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, San Diego

1980 - 1988:          U.S. Naval Officer and Aviator

The Judicial position is, by definition, non-partisan.

Peter Singer was hired following a vote of San Diego Superior Court judges and serves as a Commissioner of the San Diego Superior Court.  He presides over a high-volume courtroom at the Kearny Mesa branch where he handles criminal infractions and small claims cases.  Commissioner Singer has also covered the unlawful detainer division of the Court and serves on several of the Court’s committees.  By appointment of the Chief Justice of California, Singer serves on the Judicial Council’s Traffic Advisory Committee.

Since becoming a court commissioner in 2015, Singer has been honored as California’s Court Commissioner of the Year and he currently holds the position of president of the California Court Commissioners Association.  Before coming to the bench full-time, Commissioner Singer operated his own solo law firm for 28 years, where his practice involved primarily civil law cases, including personal injury, real estate litigation, commercial collections, mental health and probate.  During that period, he served the Superior Court (and the former Municipal Court) as a temporary judge for 22 years, as well as providing service as an arbitrator on the business and personal injury panels.  Throughout his career as an attorney, Singer was always engaged in issues involving the housing insecure and mentally ill, initially focusing on LPS conservatorships and developmental disability matters and later, representing prison inmates in involuntary medication cases.

Commissioner Singer was recruited by the California Judicial Education and Research (CJER) division of the Judicial Council to serve as an instructor for new judges and commissioners.  He presently teaches New Judge Orientation, Primary Assignment training and he is also a faculty member and seminar group leader at the B.E. Witkin Judicial College, having most recently served for two weeks in June 2022.

In September 2022, Commissioner Singer will be presenting the Commissioner of the Year award to a deserving California Court Commissioner at the annual meeting of the California Judges Association.

Singer is extensively engaged in community service, having started as a volunteer firefighter many years ago.  He is a 33-year member of the Downtown San Diego Lions Club, where, in the Club’s 100-year history, Singer is the only person to have twice served as president.  Additionally, he has twice served as the volunteer CEO of the charitable Lions Welfare Foundation, which has awarded millions of dollars in grants, and at the end of June, he completed a multi-year term as the volunteer CEO of the Lions Community Service Corporation (LCSC), a 501(c)(3) which owns and operates a 131-unit low-income senior community at 310 Market Street in San Diego.  Because of the extreme need for affordable housing in the region, Singer has recently spearheaded the refinancing of the existing project for the purpose of unencumbering $34MM+ in order to replicate LCSC’s outstanding housing endeavors.  As if that were not enough, Commissioner Singer has served the San Diego community as a volunteer emergency services worker, provided free legal services to fire victims, a volunteer for Stand Down (for homeless veterans) and as Troop Cookie Manager for multiple years in his daughters’ Girl Scout troops.

Peter Singer is a longtime resident of Scripps Ranch, where he and his wife, BeLinda, have raised their two (now adult) daughters.