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 and judgments are some of the largest in the nation. In 2025, the National Law Journal named Pete and his RM partner, Josh Russ, the Winning Plaintiff Litigators of the Year. Law360 awarded Pete and Josh the 2025 MVP Award for Trials.
Pete excels at plaintiff-side commercial litigation and False Claims Act trials. In 2024, Pete and his colleagues obtained a nine-figure False Claims Act verdict after a six-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.
Pete is often asked to appear in the late stages of complex, high-stakes cases to try them to verdict. He was co-lead counsel at trial for AT&T’s DIRECTV in a $4 billion trial brought by the Federal Trade Commission for alleged false advertising, which resulted in a complete dismissal of the FTC’s case after two weeks of trial. Pete has won trials involving breach of contract, racketeering (“RICO”), fraud, theft of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duty, false advertising, antitrust, and trademark disputes.
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.