R. Peter Decato began to practice law in 1973. From 1973 to the current date, Peter has been involved in both litigation and transactions. On the litigation side, he has tried well over one hundred jury trials and multiples of that number before judges in various state and federal courts. He has over fifty appellate decisions from the New Hampshire and/or Vermont Supreme Courts and from the 1st and 2nd Circuits of the Federal Courts of Appeal. He has been municipal counsel to a variety of local communities including the city of Lebanon (nine years), the town of Canaan and the town of Grantham.

In addition to practicing law, Peter has been actively involved in his community. He is a former Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the highly successful Carter Community Building Association. He has served on that board in excess of twenty years.

Peter is a former Trustee for the Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital and the Grafton County Senior Citizens' Council. He has acted as an Overseer for the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and has worked with the Kilton Library Fund Raising Committee.

Peter is the principal owner of LaBombard Real Estate Co., Inc. Peter was involved in his family's business, Decato Bros., Inc., a trucking company that at one time had one hundred ten tractors and two hundred flat bed trailers. This company had about one hundred fifty employees and operated in Canada and the United States.

Peter is a retired Colonel (0-6) having served for more than twenty-eight years in the New Hampshire Army National Guard. At retirement, he was the New Hampshire Army National Guard Staff Judge Advocate. Peter played basketball for the University of New Hampshire. He graduated from there with a degree in Business Administration. He then went on to law school and graduated from the University of Maine School of Law. He is a member of the Grafton County, as well as the New Hampshire and Vermont Bars. He has been named to the Manchester, New Hampshire Catholic Athletic Hall of Fame.