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. Marketos’s verdicts have been featured in the National Law Journal’s “Big Money Wins” and VerdictSearch’s “Top Verdicts,” and they include some of the largest verdicts in the nation.
Marketos focuses his practice on plaintiff-side commercial litigation and relator-side False Claims Act trials. In 2024, Marketos and his colleagues obtained a nine-figure False Claims Act verdict after a five-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, Marketos 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.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers | 2025 | Commercial Litigation |
Marketos was co-lead counsel for AT&T’s DIRECTV in a $4 billion trial brought by the Federal Trade Commission for alleged false advertising that resulted in a complete victory for AT&T after two weeks of trial. Marketos has won trials involving theft of trade secrets, racketeering (“RICO”), fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, false advertising, antitrust, breach of contract, and deceptive trade practices claims. He is often asked to appear in the late stages of complex, high-stakes cases to try them to verdict.