Boston, Massachusetts 10017
United States
Traci Lovitt is accomplished in analyzing, briefing, and arguing complex legal questions across a wide range of subject matters in every facet of litigation. She has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court and authored briefs raising significant issues for every level of the federal and state judiciaries.
Traci led the Jones Day team representing ExxonMobil in its appeal of the first MTBE case tried in the federal MDL proceeding. She is also part of the team representing IBM in the litigation concerning its Endicott facility, and she led the motions team for Yamaha Motor Company in the nationwide litigation involving the Rhino, coordinating motions practice in those cases. Traci was a member of the brief writing team that successfully represented Sherwin-Williams in the landmark public nuisance action before the Rhode Island Supreme Court. She also served as primary brief writer in The Sherwin-Williams Company v. Holmes County, a novel and successful declaratory action against Mississippi counties.
Traci served as counsel of record for IBM in the Quanta Computer and the KSR v. Teleflex patent cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. She was counsel of record to Congressmen Barney Frank and Christopher Shays in their bipartisan brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Office of Senator Dayton v. Hanson, a case challenging the constitutionality of the Congressional Accountability Act. She also served as counsel to General Motors in connection with its strategic alliance with Fiat S.p.A and as counsel to Nextel in its put dispute with Nextel Partners.
Areas of Practice | 1) Litigation, 2) Issues & Appeals and 3) Financial Institutions Litigation & Regulation |
Law School | Duke University School of Law |
Admitted Year | 1997 |
Education | University of Texas (B.A., 1991), University of Washington (M.A.1994) |
Bar Member / Association | Massachusetts; New York; District of Columbia; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits; and U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Districts of New York |
Most recent firm | Jones Day |
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