Traci L. Lovitt
100 High Street, 21st Floor, Boston, MA 02110
About Traci L. Lovitt
Practice Areas
- Appellate
Education
- Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina, 1997J.D.
- Honors: Order of the Coif
- Honors: Willis Smith Award for Highest Grade Point Average
- University of Washington, 1994M.A.
- Major: Economics
- The University of Texas, 1991B.A.
- Honors: With High Honors
Representative Cases
- AARP's position prevails in 10th Circuit case challenging Congressional Accountability Act's constitutionality (2009)
- Alderwoods defeats class certification in nationwide off-the-clock case (2010)
- Chevron wins Ninth Circuit affirmance of jury verdict in highly publicized Nigerian human rights case (2009)
- City of Columbus, Ohio successfully petitions U.S. Supreme Court in case addressing safety regulations governing local tow-truck operations under the Interstate Commerce Act
- GM dissolves alliance with Fiat (2009)
- IBM defends against putative nationwide age discrimination class action arising out of reductions-in-force (2009)
- IBM files amicus curiae brief in patent exhaustion case (2009)
- IBM files U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief in case involving scope of patent-law doctrine of obviousness (2009)
- IBM successfully appeals environmental contamination ruling (2009)
- Nevada challenges constitutionality of Family and Medical Leave Act in U.S. Supreme Court (2009)
- Nextel merges with Sprint and resolves related disputes involving put shares and branding issues (2009)
- Pro bono client successfully challenges Bureau of Prisons' classification of his offenses as crimes of violence
- R.J. Reynolds appeals rulings in smoking and health case to Florida appellate court and U.S. Supreme Court (2009)
- R.J. Reynolds wins dismissal of European Community's RICO claims (2009)
- Sandra Craft pursues Supreme Court case involving attachment of federal tax liens
- Sherwin-Williams obtains 5th Circuit decision upholding declaratory judgment complaint ending Mississippi school suits (2009)
- Sherwin-Williams prevails in landmark public nuisance suit over lead pigment before Rhode Island Supreme Court (2009)
- Yamaha obtains reversal of jury verdict involving the Rhino in Georgia Court of Appeals (2011)
- Yamaha successfully defends nationwide litigation of product liability cases and claims involving the Rhino side-by-side ("SxS") vehicle (2009)
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Massachusetts
- New York, 1998
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court Northern District of New York
Past Positions
- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court, Law Clerk, - 1998
- Judge Ralph K. Winter, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, Law Clerk, 1997 - 1998
- U.S. Department of Justice, Assistant to the Solicitor General, 2004 - 2005
Office Info
Other Colleagues
- Partner
- Partner
- Of Counsel
- Of Counsel
Nearby Lawyers
- Appellate
- 0.3 mile away
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