Peter is a seasoned trial attorney with over 25 years experience in the criminal courtroom. He has tried over 200 cases as lead counsel, many of them involving violent crime, child physical and sexual abuse, and murder.

From 2016 to 2019, he was Director of Advocacy Training and Programs for the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army and Chief of OTJAG’s Strategic Priorities Branch. In this role as senior adviser to the Army’s top criminal lawyers, he helped create advocacy training programs for the Army JAG Corps in criminal trial practice. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Army’s courtroom training manual, “The Advocacy Trainer.”

Peter is a graduate of Columbia University and Pepperdine University Law School. He served as deputy county attorney in Strafford County, New Hampshire, from 1990 until 2003, handling primarily child physical and sexual abuse cases. He then joined the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office five-person Homicide Unit before moving to Atlanta in 2006 to prosecute for the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office in the Major Case and Public Integrity Units. He opened The Odom Law Firm in July, 2008, handling criminal cases exclusively.

Peter is an adjunct professor of law at American University’s Washington College of Law. He currently teaches US Contract Law in the International Masters of Law program and an advanced trial practice course focused on special victims cases for the Trial Advocacy Program. His prior teaching credentials include serving as an instructor in the paralegal studies programs at Georgetown University in Washington DC and Emory University in Atlanta.