Glen R. Petersen

Glen R. Petersen is a partner at Hymel, Davis & Petersen, LLC, located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Focusing his practice on litigation, he represents clients not only throughout the Baton Rouge area, but statewide as well in a variety of matters, including white collar criminal defense involving health care and financial fraud, and complex commercial and administrative litigation.  

After graduating from Louisiana State University with a B.S. in business administration in 1973, Glen earned his Juris Doctor from LSU's Law Center in 1977. Before going into private practice, he served for several years as a prosecutor, initially as an Assistant Attorney General in the Louisiana Department of Justice, followed by his appointment as an Assistant District Attorney in Baton Rouge several years, and then rejoining the Attorney General's Office focusing on the prosecution of health care providers who had defrauded the state's Medicaid program.  Glen was the director of the state's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit for several years until joining the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Louisiana as a federal prosecutor, with a focus in the area of health care fraud.  Admitted to practice in Louisiana, Glen is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts in each of the three federal districts in Louisiana, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Glen has frequently been asked to speak before groups of fellow professionals on matters related to health care and Medicaid fraud and patient abuse, and his work in that regard resulted in his being named a special advocate for the Louisiana Association of Retarded Citizens. Active in several professional organizations, he has been a member of the House of Delegates of the Louisiana State Bar Association, and remains active with the Baton Rouge Bar Association, particularly with emphasis on Law Day and moot court activities for high schoolers.