Lyn Peterson, Esq. – Nursing Home Neglect & Personal Injury Attorney

Lyn Peterson is an Associate Attorney at the Rizzuto Law Firm, where she focuses on nursing home neglect, elder abuse, and complex personal injury litigation. Lyn is passionate about protecting the rights of the elderly and vulnerable, holding negligent nursing homes and long-term care facilities accountable, and making sure families obtain justice for their loved ones. She also represents clients in car accidents, slip and fall and trip and fall accidents, premises liability, snow and ice cases, and other negligence claims.

Lyn’s commitment to advocacy is rooted in her academic background. She attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia — the nation’s top-ranked public high school — where she pursued advanced coursework and laboratory research that rivaled many universities. Her senior thesis focused on carbon capture and storage technologies, developed and tested in the school’s Chemical Analysis and Nanochemistry Laboratory.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where her passion for justice took shape. While at Reed, Lyn worked with the Center for Health, Environment and Justice under the leadership of Lois Gibbs, the activist known as the “Mother of Superfund.” There, she co-drafted and coordinated the People’s Task Force on the Future of Superfund, which was endorsed by more than 100 environmental organizations and generated national and local media coverage. Her senior thesis examined how grassroots organizations mobilized in response to the Love Canal contamination crisis and how living near a Superfund site affects political attitudes and civic participation.

Lyn went on to earn her Juris Doctor from the University of Oregon School of Law, with a concentration in criminal law. During law school, she clerked for the Federal Public Defender, where she successfully secured the compassionate release of a chronically ill non-citizen client suffering severe medical neglect in an overcrowded private prison during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Her litigation skills were further refined when she was selected to participate in the Litigation Lab, an intensive workshop on civil pretrial litigation taught by Hon. Mustafa Kasubhai, U.S. Magistrate Judge. In her third year, while working in the Lane County Public Defense Clinic, Lyn tried a DUI case to verdict and obtained an acquittal, allowing her client to keep his CDL and lifelong career as a civil service mechanic.

After law school, Lyn served as a public defender, managing a demanding caseload of more than 130 cases at a time. In that role, she became known as a fierce advocate and persistent negotiator, skilled at telling her clients’ stories and safeguarding their rights. She excels at weaving her scientific training into litigation, leveraging her analytical skills to collaborate with and cross-examine expert witnesses in complex cases.

At the Rizzuto Law Firm, Lyn channels this unique blend of advocacy, trial experience, and scientific analysis into her work in the Nursing Home Neglect Department.

Her practice focuses on:

• Nursing Home Neglect & Abuse – including bedsores, falls, malnutrition, dehydration, and medication errors.
• Elder Abuse Cases – protecting seniors from physical, emotional, and financial harm.
• Personal Injury Cases – including car accidents, slip and fall, trip and fall, and defective premises cases.
• Snow & Ice Accidents and Defective Sidewalk Cases – pursuing justice for individuals injured due to unsafe property conditions.
• Negligence & Wrongful Death Litigation – holding corporations and individuals accountable when careless conduct leads to tragedy.

Lyn’s career reflects her unwavering dedication to justice. Whether representing an elderly nursing home resident, a family grieving from wrongful death, or an individual seriously injured in an accident, she brings determination, compassion, and skill to every case. Her mission is simple: to ensure that her clients’ voices are heard, their rights are protected, and their dignity is restored.