Pete H. Noone, Esquire

Instructor

Peter H. Noone is an attorney from Belmont, MA with over 13 years experience representing employees in federal personnel matters. For the past three years, Mr. Noone has provided specialized training to agency investigative personnel providing insight into the issues and mistakes that an employee’s representative looks for in reviewing investigative work. He has been a guest instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and has developed and provided training seminars to the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Law Enforcement Steering Committee.

Since 1998, Mr. Noone has been a partner with the law firm Avery, Dooley, Post & Avery where he heads the federal personnel law practice group. In more than 13 years of practice, he has specialized in federal personnel matters and represented federal employees and law enforcement officers from virtually every federal agency. Mr. Noone has represented his clients throughout agency and criminal investigations, in Merit Systems Protection Board appeals, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hearings, and trials in the U.S. District Court. Mr. Noone has assisted his clients in successfully defending disciplinary actions, ranging from letters of reprimand to removal. Additionally, Mr. Noone has assisted his clients in defending security clearance revocation and in adverse suitability determinations.

In addition to his federal practice, he serves as general legal counsel for the Massachusetts Association of Women in Law Enforcement, The Irish American Police Officers Association, the Massachusetts Communication Officers Association, and the New England Crisis Negotiators Association.

Mr. Noone is a graduate of Princeton University and received a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States District Court for Massachusetts.