Pete Marketos tries high-stakes lawsuits throughout the country. He has won dozens of trials in state and federal court over more than 25 years. Pete’s verdicts have been featured in the National Law Journal’s “Big Money Wins” and VerdictSearch’s “Top Verdicts,” and they include some of the largest verdicts in the nation.
Pete focuses his practice on plaintiff-side commercial litigation and relator-side False Claims Act trials. In 2024, Pete and his colleagues obtained a nine-figure False Claims Act verdict after a five-week federal jury trial against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Products for defrauding Medicare. The verdict resulted in a $1.64 billion final judgment—the largest False Claims Act civil judgment in history. Also in 2024, Pete and his partners reached a $100 million False Claims Act settlement against PharMerica shortly before trial. In 2025, Pete and his RM colleagues won a $52 million judgment against Energy Transfer after a multi-week trial involving a pipeline explosion and a contractual earn-out.
In earlier cases, Pete was co-lead counsel for AT&T’s DIRECTV in a $4 billion trial brought by the Federal Trade Commission for alleged false advertising, resulting in a complete victory for AT&T after two weeks of trial. Pete has won trials involving theft of trade secrets, racketeering (“RICO”), fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, false advertising, antitrust, breach of contract, and deceptive trade practices claims. He is often asked to appear in the late stages of complex, high-stakes cases to try them to verdict.
Pete is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. He served as an Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law for several years. The Texas Lawyer recognized Reese Marketos as the Litigation Firm of the Year for boutique firms in 2013. The Association of Corporate Counsel awarded the Business Litigation of the Year Award for 2018 to AT&T and Reese Marketos together with other counsel on the DIRECTV and Time Warner merger litigation. In 2024, The Anti-Fraud Coalition awarded Reese Marketos its Lawyers of the Year Award together with Berger Montague—the firm’s co-counsel in the Janssen and PharMerica False Claims Act cases.