Big law firm CEO steps down after 14 years at the helm

Post & Schell said Friday that Brian Peters has stepped down as president and CEO of the law firm after 14 years at the helm. Peters, a health care litigator by trade, has morphed Post & Schell, long considered among Philadelphia's elite insurance defense law firms, into a broader, more sophisticated operation since taking the firm's reins in fall 2000. Peters made tough decisions, such as parting ways with longtime lawyers at the firm whose practice's no longer fit the firm's economic model. The…