Lucas T. Elliot

Partner

Lucas T. Elliot is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Litigation and Intellectual Property Practices and the hiring partner for the Houston office. Mr. Elliot focuses his practice in the areas of patent litigation and complex commercial litigation, representing U.S. and Asian clients as both plaintiffs and defendants. He regularly litigates intellectual property, commercial, and complex tort matters in federal and state courts and before arbitration panels. Mr. Elliot has represented a wide variety of corporate and individual clients in the telecommunications, computer hardware and software, eCommerce, technology development and consulting, real estate, and insurance industries.

Previously, Mr. Elliot practiced primarily in the area of complex tort litigation, defending commercial property owners in complex premises liability litigation involving criminal acts of third parties, and defending law firms and attorneys in professional malpractice litigation. He also has handled several matters involving bankruptcy and real estate litigation.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. Elliot was a partner in the Litigation, International, and Intellectual Property and Technology Departments, and a member of the Asia-Pacific and Information Technology Practice Groups, at a full-service international law firm. Prior to that, Mr. Elliot served as a law clerk for Judge Sim Lake of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Mr. Elliot is a former member of the State Bar District 4F Grievance Committee and served as the chairman from 1999 to 2001. He is also a governing director of the board of trustees for the Houston Symphony Society, a member of the board of directors of the Friends of Fondren Library at Rice University, and a member of the United Way’s Alexis de Tocqueville Society.

Mr. Elliot received his J.D., cum laude, from Tulane University Law School in 1989. While in law school, he was articles editor for the Tulane Maritime Law Journal. Mr. Elliot received his B.A. in anthropology and behavioral sciences (pre-med) from Rice University in 1986.

Mr. Elliot is admitted to practice in Texas and before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal and Fifth Circuits and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts of Texas.