Pete Marketos

“Pete Marketos ‘is one of the finest trial lawyers to appear in my court.’”

– Federal District Judge Samuel Hardy Mays,
Western District of Tennessee

“Pete Marketos and Leslie Chaggaris’s ability to anticipate the next move of the opponent and to communicate with and win over the jury was nothing... Read More

– Martin Toha,
President, Profinity, LLC

Reese Marketos law firm is in a league of its own. The professionalism, efficiency and mastery of law; combined with their relentless pursuit of justice... Read More

– Jorge Woldenberg, Corpac Steel Products Corp.

“Pete Marketos ‘is one of the finest trial lawyers to appear in my court.’”

– Federal District Judge Samuel Hardy Mays,
Western District of Tennessee

“Pete Marketos and Leslie Chaggaris’s ability to anticipate the next move of the opponent and to communicate with and win over the jury was nothing short of remarkable.”

– Martin Toha,
President, Profinity, LLC

Reese Marketos law firm is in a league of its own. The professionalism, efficiency and mastery of law; combined with their relentless pursuit of justice and fairness confirmed they were the right choice for our company. Brett Rosenthal and Pete Marketos were exceptional in every way. I would recommend this firm to anyone seeking justice.

– Jorge Woldenberg, Corpac Steel Products Corp.

Overview


Pete Marketos tries high-stakes lawsuits to juries and judges. He has won multiple plaintiff verdicts and take-nothing defense verdicts in state and federal court.

Pete’s verdicts have been featured in National Law Journal’s “Big Money Wins” and VerdictSearch’s “Top Texas Verdicts.”

Some of Pete’s notable representations include:

  • Co-lead counsel for AT&T’s DIRECTV in a $4 billion trial brought by the Federal Trade Commission for alleged deceptive advertising. After two weeks of trial, the federal district court for the Northern District of California dismissed the majority of the FTC’s claims. The FTC voluntarily dismissed the remainder of its case with prejudice shortly thereafter.
  • Lead counsel for the New York State Attorney General in a lawsuit filed by Exxon Mobil in federal court in Texas, where Exxon sought to halt the NYAG’s investigation into Exxon’s alleged climate-change coverup. The case was successfully transferred out of Texas and dismissed by the federal district court in New York.
  • Lead counsel for AT&T in successful representation against false advertising and deceptive trade practices claims filed by Sprint in the Southern District of New York. Sprint sought an injunction against AT&T’s advertising of certain 5G technologies.
  • Lead counsel for the Governor of the State of New York in obtaining a dismissal, for lack of personal jurisdiction, of a lawsuit filed in the Western District of Texas relating to the online publication of instructions for 3D printing of firearms.

Over a two-year period alone, Pete was lead counsel in six jury trials and won them all. Those results include:

  • A business fraud verdict against a global automobile manufacture that was featured in the National Law Journal’s “Big Money Wins.”
  • A take-nothing defense verdict against a market-dominant credit monitoring company on its claims for theft of trade secrets and a counterclaim verdict for willful violations of antitrust laws.
  • A fraud and breach of contract verdict against a national communications company over a $15 million supply contract.
  • A complete plaintiff’s verdict dissolving a partnership that owned seven restaurants at DFW Airport after misconduct by a partner, and a take-nothing defense verdict on the partner’s $13 million counterclaim.
  • A take-nothing defense verdict and a counterclaim verdict for damages and attorney’s fees in a products defect dispute between two national roofing suppliers after termination of a $75 million supplier relationship.

Pete has successfully tried cases involving mergers, acquisitions, and earn-out agreements with tens of millions of dollars in dispute before juries and arbitration panels. He has litigated and resolved multiple disputes in the oil and gas industry over the drilling, gathering, processing, and production of oil and natural gas.

In prior cases, Pete won a $13 million judgment for civil racketeering (“RICO”) violations after a three-week federal trial; defeated a $20 million claim under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after a five-week federal trial; obtained damages verdicts and preliminary injunctions in large trade secrets disputes in federal and state courts; and won multiple fraud and breach of fiduciary duty verdicts in federal and state courts.

Pete served as an adjunct professor of Trial Advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law for several years. He is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers.

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 LLP together with other counsel on the DIRECTV and Time Warner merger litigation.

Education


  • University of Texas School of Law Juris Doctor, with honors, 1999
  • Rice University Bachelor of Arts, 1996

Admissions


  • United States Supreme Court
  • Texas Supreme Court
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas