Pete Marketos tries high-stakes lawsuits to juries. He has won many trials in state and federal court over more than 20 years. Pete’s verdicts have been featured in the National Law Journal’s “Big Money Wins” and VerdictSearch’s “Top Verdicts.”
Pete is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and a former Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law.
Today, Pete focuses his practice on plaintiff-side commercial litigation and relator-side False Claims Act trials. Recently, Pete and his colleagues obtained a nine-figure verdict in a False Claims Act case against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Products after a five-week federal jury trial. Relators are currently pursuing a final judgment of more than $1.5 billion.
In prior cases at Reese Marketos, Pete and his partners reached a $100 million False Claims Act settlement against PharMerica shortly before trial. Pete represented the New York State Attorney General in litigation against Exxon and the Governor of the State of New York in litigation involving the 3D printing of firearms. He was co-lead counsel for AT&T’s DIRECTV in a $4 billion trial brought by the Federal Trade Commission, resulting in the dismissal of the FTC’s claims and 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, intellectual property, and breach of contract claims. He is often asked by other law firms and their clients to appear in complex, high-stakes cases to try them to verdict.
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.