Peter J. Tesi was born in Cameroon. He was a founding member of E&T Legal in 2019. As a founding member of E&T Legal, Peter Tesi brought in more than 10 years of complex litigation experience in diverse area of the law to the firm. His main area of expertise includes criminal law where he appears and defends clients before the Alberta Court of Justice, Court of King’s Bench

He appears for professionals in various boards and tribunals such as the Alberta Law Society Tribunals, Alberta Human Right Tribunal, Alberta Labour Relation Board Tribunal (ALRB), Immigration and Refugee Board and Immigration Appeal Division. He serves regional, national, international and diverse clients in other areas of law, including wills and estates, real estate, employment, labour, employment, human rights and personal injury. He also appears in civil matters before the Federal Court of Canada.

In addition to his litigation experience, Peter Tesi offers clients consultation in alternate dispute resolutions. He has represented clients before the Provincial Court of Alberta, the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, the Federal Court of Canada and Administrative tribunals. He is an active member of the Law Society of Alberta, Canadian Bar Association and the Calgary Bar Association, Red deer Criminal Defence Lawyer Association and Calgary defence lawyer Association.

Peter Tesi worked with a boutique firm in Toronto, Ontario, where he helped in the litigation, arbitration and mediation of cases in personal injury. He also took part in various immigration/appeals, human rights and discrimination cases.

Prior to his time in Toronto, Peter Tesi worked with a large firm in Tennessee and later Georgia, USA. He also worked with the Centre for Ocean Law and Policy in the University of Virginia, Charlottesville under prominent professors like John Moore, formal U.S Ambassador to the United Nations Conference of the Law of the Sea and one time Director of the Centre for National Security Law in the University of Virginia. He also acted as the research assistant to Professor Marion Norquist and Late Jeffrey O’Connor, a prominent personal Injury lawyer and later professor in Tort and Accident Law, University of Virginia law school.

Mr. Tesi obtained his LL. B from the University of Yaounde, Cameroon in Common and Civil Law. He taught law briefly and obtained his LL.Ms from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia and the University of Virginia School of Law respectively. He is a Lumpkin Fellow of the Nicholas School of Environment-Duke University. He has also written various academic articles-“The Environmental Perspectives of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994”, published in Moses K.Tesi- The Environment and Development in Africa. He is also the author of “Union Douanière et Economique de L’Afrique Centrale (UDEAC)” published in, Encyclopedia of African History, vol. 3-Routledge and “Niger”, in Encyclopedia of World Cultural History by Bert Keisser.