Drew H. Peterson graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Law with a Juris Doctor degree in 1972. From his earliest days of law practice he has focused on providing quality legal services to individual clients of often limited means. He began his career in a small legal services office in a suburban / rural Minnesota county. He came to Alaska in 1976 with Alaska Legal Services Corp, where his final position was as Rural Litigation Coordinator, with supervisory responsibilities for rural offices all over the State of Alaska.

Since 1993, Drew has been the owner and principal trainer for Wingspan Training and Consulting, a training firm emphasizing the techniques of win-win negotiations and collaborative problem solving. Wingspan Training and Consulting has presented numerous workshops to business, governmental agency and private groups, encouraging the use of such techniques to resolve disputes in a more humane and less expensive method than is found in the traditional adversarial legal world.

His practice is in the area of Family Law, and Family and General Mediation. This includes, but is not limited to:

- Divorce
- Parenting Issues
- Child Support
- Guardianship
- Open adoptions
- Family owned business disputes
- Disputes between unmarried cohabitants
- Will contests
- Partnership disputes
- Employee-employer disputes
- Landlord-tenant disputes
- Neighborhood issues
- Construction disputes
- Personal injury
- Professional malpractice
- Wrongful termination
- Sexual harassment
- Labor-management disputes
- Environmental disputes
- Issues of broad public policy