Allyson N. Ho

Partner

Allyson N. Ho is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice. Ms. Ho is an appellate litigator who focuses her practice on complex commercial and constitutional litigation. She has argued cases both in private practice and in government service. Ms. Ho has successfully litigated trial and appellate matters in both state and federal courts—including the U.S. Supreme Court, the Texas Supreme Court, and federal and state courts of appeals—spanning a wide range of matters, including federal preemption, First Amendment, antitrust, RICO, bankruptcy, punitive damages, class actions, and intellectual property. She also regularly counsels clients in government investigations and other adversarial settings outside of formal litigation proceedings.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Ho worked at an international law firm in its Appellate Litigation Practice. Before that, she held senior positions in both the White House and the U.S. Department of Justice, serving as special assistant to the President for domestic policy and as counselor to the Attorney General, and was recently appointed to the Texas Judicial Council by Governor Rick Perry. Following law school, Ms. Ho served as a law clerk to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Jacques L. Wiener Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Ms. Ho has spoken at numerous seminars, roundtables, conferences, and debates on the topics of the U.S. Supreme Court, posttrial motion practice in federal and state court, tort reform, and immigration enforcement. She is also a recent presenter at programs sponsored by the State Bar of Texas, the Center for Politics and Governance at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy.

Ms. Ho received her J.D., with high honors, from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was named to the Order of the Coif. While in law school, she was a member of The University of Chicago Law Review, articles editor of The University of Chicago Legal Forum, editor-in-chief of the symposium issue of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and a recipient of the Anne Watson Barber Award for Outstanding Service and the Caspar Platt Award for best paper written by a law school student. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Rice University, where she was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities and a Vaughn Fellow. Ms. Ho received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Duke University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Ms. Ho is admitted to practice in Texas and the District of Columbia and before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fourth, and District of Columbia Circuits; the U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia and the Northern District of Texas; and the U.S. Supreme Court.