Mary-Olga “Mo” Lovett has been a trial lawyer for more than 30 years. In that time, she has taken dozens of cases to trial, involving a wide variety of complex legal issues, over 50 with more than $100 billion at stake.
And she’s just getting started.
A proven first-chair trial lawyer, Lovett has been a fierce advocate for a wide range of national and global clients in bet-the-company litigation. When reputations are on the line or billions of dollars are at stake, clients have turned to Lovett to spearhead the litigation, knowing that she has the experience and tenacity to take even the most complex cases to verdict. Lovett is a strategic thinker who is often called in to lead other litigation teams in complex cases across a variety of industries. Her recent representations include leading legal teams defending a global energy giant regarding allegations of billions of dollars of environmental damage, defending a global tech firm in a multibillion-dollar Lanham Act case, prosecuting trademark claims for Grammy-winning performers and acting as lead trial counsel for the target defendant in a 2,000-plaintiff Texas state court case arising from an explosion in Houston.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America | 2026 | Commercial Litigation, IP, Class Action, Product Liability |
| The Inaugural Lawdragon 500 Leading Global IP Lawyers | 2025 | IP Litigation, Patent, Trade Secret, Infringement |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America | 2025 | Commercial Litigation, IP, Class Action, Product Liability |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America | 2024 | Commercial Litigation, IP, Class Action, Product Liability |
| Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America | 2022 | Commercial Litigation, IP, Class Action, Product Liability |
Before opening Mo Lovett Law, Lovett was a partner at global law firm King & Spalding. She moved to King & Spalding after 18 years at Greenberg Traurig, where she was the senior vice president and ranking woman in a firm of 2,650 lawyers with 5,000 employees in 47 offices around the world.  She is excited to bring her big-firm knowledge into her own firm for an unsurpassed level of personalized client service.
Lovett is licensed in Texas and New York, and her cases involve a wide variety of complex legal issues, including patent infringement, trademark infringement, theft of trade secrets, commercial disputes, class actions, employment litigation and product liability matters all over the country, in both state and federal courts. She has:
- Represented the music group Lady A (formerly known as “Lady Antebellum”) in the fight for its name.
- Represented a major bank accused of discriminating against Black customers nationwide.
- Successfully defended a Fortune 10 software company in a $43 billion trademark infringement matter.
- Successfully defended a $454 million hedge fund in New York State Court.
- Served as lead trial counsel for a major oil company in a case with tens of billions in exposure in which the client was being sued by the state of Louisiana and 42 of its parishes for “shrinking the state.”
- Successfully represented R.J. Reynolds against the state of Texas in a 2019-2021 case in the Eastern District of Texas that was a blatant attempt by the state to “retrade” the landmark 1998 Texas Tobacco Settlement Agreement.
- Served as lead counsel in more than 70 patent cases in the Eastern District of Texas and has successfully tried many patent cases there on both sides of the docket, beginning in 2010.
- From 2019 to 2023, represented Mattel, Inc. and Fisher-Price, Inc. as co-lead counsel in cases involving infant deaths allegedly related to the Rock ‘n’ Play Sleeper.