Leading Houston Trial Lawyer Mary-Olga ‘Mo’ Lovett to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honor from Texas Legal Awards

Award recognizes trailblazers who have impacted the Texas legal profession

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mo Lovett Law is pleased to announce that firm founder Mary-Olga “Mo” Lovett has been selected as a 2025 recipient of the Texas Legal Awards’ prestigious Lifetime Achievement honor.

Presented by Texas Lawyer, the Texas Legal Awards’ Lifetime Achievement honor recognizes trailblazing attorneys who have “left a lasting imprint on the Texas legal community” and have not only helped shape the law but also achieved extraordinary outcomes for their clients.

A proven first-chair trial lawyer, Ms. Lovett has tried more than 50 jury cases to verdict, with more than $100 billion combined at stake. Her expertise is in handling and trying cases involving complex legal issues, including patent infringement, trademark infringement, theft of trade secrets, commercial disputes, class actions, employment litigation and product liability matters.

In her more than 30-year career, Ms. Lovett’s work has included:

• Representing R.J. Reynolds against the State of Texas in an attempt to relitigate the landmark 1998 Texas tobacco settlement.
• Defending Microsoft in a $43 billion trademark infringement matter.
• Representing Mattel-Fisher Price in a nationwide product liability case.
• Guiding the country music band formerly known as Lady Antebellum through its trademark fight over rights to the name “Lady A.”
• Successfully defending multiple companies, including Garmin, Inc., Rank Company (Reynolds Foil) and Argon Medical Group in patent infringement cases.

Before launching Mo Lovett Law, Ms. Lovett was a trial and global disputes partner at global law firm King & Spalding. Before King & Spalding, she spent 18 years at Greenberg Traurig, where she rose to Houston co-managing shareholder and co-regional operating shareholder. In 2018, she was named the first female Senior Vice President of the global firm.

Ms. Lovett has been ranked a Band 1 trial lawyer by Chambers USA and as a leading commercial litigator in Texas. She has been honored by The Best Lawyers in America and Texas Super Lawyers. In 2020, Texas Lawyer named her a Top Mentor.

“I am beyond honored and humbled by this award,” said Ms. Lovett. “I have spent my career handling one battle after another, fighting for my clients, and I have loved every minute of it. It is incredible to be thought of as someone who has had an impact. But what’s most exciting to me is that I’m just getting started.”

Ms. Lovett is a proud alumna of South Texas College of Law, which recognized her with its Distinguished Alumni Award in 2021. While at South Texas, Ms. Lovett became the first person in history to win both the National Moot Court Competition and the National Appellate Advocacy Competition, a record that still stands today.

Ms. Lovett is one of four Lifetime Achievement Award winners this year. She will be honored along with fellow attorneys David Beck, Randy Johnston and David Keltner at the Texas Legal Awards ceremony September 25 in Dallas.

Mo Lovett Law

In her 30-year career, Mo Lovett has built a reputation as a battle-tested litigator who has the experience and tenacity to take even the most complex cases to verdict. She has handled dozens of jury trials, over 50 with more than $100 billion at stake combined. Based in Houston, and with principal counsel licensed in Houston and New York, the firm tries cases in state and federal courts. Learn more at www.molovettlaw.com.