Pete Eikenberry is a litigator specializing in complex commercial litigation in the New York state and federal courts. He was admitted to the bar of the State of New York in 1965 and is a member of the bar of the U.S. Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Eikenberry was educated at The Ohio State University (B.A. and LL.B.), where he was Note Editor of the Law Journal and is currently a member of the law school's National Council.

He was trained in litigation at White and Case (1964 -1968).He was General Counsel and Secretary of the Bedford Stuyvesant D&S Corporation, under John Doar, President 1968-1970. He was partner in the Seyfarth Shaw firm (1994-1998).

He was a volunteer civil rights lawyer in Mississippi for the month of July 1966 with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and a volunteer lawyer at the Federal Detention Center in Dilley, Texas for a week in June 2015. In November 2017, he was a one week neutral observer of legal proceedings in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In 1998, he led a New York City Bar Association Human Rights Mission to Northern Ireland.

He has been a Vice President of the Federal Bar Council("FBC"), and has served on FBC Committees on Courts of the Second Circuit (Chair 2000-2003) and Public Service (founding Chair 1991-1994) as well as having been Editor-in-Chief of the FBC Quarterly (2007-2010) where he is currently a member of the editorial board. He was the Convenor and a member of the steering committee of the New York Conference on Immigration Representation led by the late Chief Judge Robert Katzmann of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals (2008-2021) and is a member of the U.S. Second Circuit Court Committee on Civic Education (2015-present). He was a member of the Professional Grievance Committee of the First Department 2017-2020.

In 2016, he was presented with the annual Professionalism Award by the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, leading to a presentation in the U.S. Supreme Court with the awardees of the other circuits. He was also presented with the 2017 Public Service Award by the Ohio State University Law College. He has been president of Brooklyn Children's Museum and was a founding board member of the Children's Storefront School in Harlem. He is president of Friends of Marcy Houses, Inc.

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