Pete Marketos is a commercial trial lawyer who focuses his practice on representing commercial plaintiffs in complex disputes from trial through appeal. For more than 11 years, Pete tried cases as an associate and partner with Haynes and Boone, LLP—a national commercial law firm and the largest firm in Dallas/Fort Worth. Pete is an Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law and a certified instructor for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.
Pete has won seven- and eight-figure verdicts and judgments in both state and federal courts. He secured an eight-figure damage award against former corporate officers for civil racketeering (“RICO”) violations, RICO conspiracy, fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty. Pete won a large jury verdict as lead counsel in state court on his healthcare clients' claims of fraud, theft, and breach of contract against an investor. He tried a two-month-long federal jury trial in which his internet-technology client obtained a $1 million jury verdict and successfully defended against a $20 million counterclaim under the Computer Fraud and Abuse act.
Pete frequently lectures on electronic discovery and the use of computer-forensic evidence in litigation. He has served as a panelist for the E-Discovery Roundtable series in the Texas Lawyer, written for the Metropolitan Corporate Counsel on Electronic Discovery, and presented to attorneys and clients on computer forensics in Beyond Electronic Discovery: Digital Evidence and the New Age of Litigation. Pete is a contributing author to McGraw-Hill’s authoritative text, Hacking Exposed: Computer Forensics (2nd Ed.) (2010).
