Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP

Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP is a preeminent business-focused national litigation boutique. The firm represents dozens of Fortune 500 companies, privately held businesses, and trade associations in high-stakes disputes from inception through the U.S. Supreme Court. Founded in 2021, the firm has grown from 2 attorneys to 20 in 2023. Its main offices are in Austin, Washington DC, Oklahoma City, and Denver.

The firm’s lawyers have extraordinary experience:

• Lawyers at the firm have a combined total of over 160 appellate oral arguments—including 18 in the U.S. Supreme Court, 23 in the Texas Supreme Court, and 53 in the Fifth Circuit.
• Lawyers at the firm have led a combined total of 8 jury trials and 19 bench trials.
• 6 attorneys clerked for the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 3 partners served as State Solicitors General.
• 4 partners have U.S. Department of Justice experience.
• All attorneys have clerkship experience.
• All partners have AmLaw 100 law firm backgrounds.

Main Areas of Practice

Lehotsky Keller Cohn attorneys defend clients’ interests in complex litigation in federal and state courts throughout the nation, from trial through appeal and argument at the U.S. Supreme Court

The firm handles complex commercial disputes across the nation and offers unparalleled perspectives on public policy trends, providing strategic, business-savvy legal advice. Firm lawyers advise businesses, trade associations, and nonprofits on cutting-edge legal issues, counseling them on strategies to avoid legal risk and achieve their goals. Recent representations have included high-stakes appeals and trials, litigating and advising on class actions and multidistrict litigation, litigation portfolio coordination, investigations, and regulatory strategy.

Lehotsky Keller Cohn also specializes in challenging federal, state, and local laws and regulations. For example, the firm successfully challenged OSHA’s COVID vaccine-or-testing mandate in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of 26 business associations. NFIB v. OSHA, 142 S. Ct. 661 (2022) (per curiam). And the firm obtained emergency relief from the U.S. Supreme Court, blocking enforcement of a state law in a major First Amendment technology case. NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton, 142 S. Ct. 1715 (2022). Firm lawyers have successfully litigated in courts throughout the nation against many different federal agencies—such as EPA, FCC, DOL, CFTC, and DHS.