Pete Marketos is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Over more than 25 years, he has won dozens of high-stakes lawsuits in state and federal courts across the country, securing some of the largest judgments in the nation.
Pete has been recognized for his courtroom advocacy skills. After a six-week federal jury trial in which his client prevailed in a $20 million cyber fraud claim, the federal judge wrote that Pete is “one of the finest trial lawyers to appear in my court.”
In 2025, Pete and his partner Josh Russ received the Winning Plaintiff Litigators of the Year award from the National Law Journal and the MVP Award for Trials from Law360.
Pete has won many trials involving damages claims ranging from the tens of millions to multiple billions, including False Claims Act whistleblower cases and bet-the-company commercial litigation disputes.
In the past five years alone, Pete has won trials before juries and judges in California, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Over the same period, Pete has prevailed in Delaware Chancery Court, the Texas Business Courts, and the Supreme Court of Texas.