Traci L. Lovitt

Traci Lovitt has considerable experience in every facet of complex litigation. She has argued before the United States Supreme Court, as well as numerous courts of appeals and trial-level courts. In addition, Traci has authored briefs raising significant legal questions for submission at every level of the federal and state judiciaries. She specializes in briefing and arguing complex and novel questions of law, across a wide range of subject matters.

Traci focuses a significant amount of her practice in products liability. She is part of Jones Day's national representation of Sherwin-Williams in product liability actions arising out of its former manufacture of certain lead pigments. Traci is currently on the team representing Sherwin-Williams before the Rhode Island Supreme Court in the public nuisance action against several former lead pigment manufacturers. She also served as primary brief writer in The Sherwin-Williams Company v. Holmes County, 343 F.3d 383 (5th Cir.), Sherwin-Williams' novel and successful declaratory judgment action against various Mississippi counties that were threatening suit.

In addition, Traci has considerable experience in a variety of complex commercial and other significant cases. She served as counsel of record for IBM acting as amicus curiae in the U.S. Supreme Court patent case KSR International Co. v. Teleflex, Inc., No. 04-1350 (S. Ct.) and was counsel of record to Congressmen Barney Frank and Christopher Shays in their bipartisan amici curiae brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Office of Senator Mark Dayton v. Hanson, No. 06-618 (S. Ct.), a case challenging the constitutionality of the Congressional Accountability Act. She has also served as counsel to General Motors in connection with its strategic alliance with Fiat S.p.A and counsel to Nextel in its dispute with Nextel Partners over the put provisions in Nextel Partners' charter, Nextel Communications, Inc. v. Nextel Partners, Inc., No. 1704-N (Del. Ch. Ct. 2005).

During the U.S. Supreme Court's 2003 and 2004 Terms, Traci served as assistant to the solicitor general, a capacity in which she defended the interests of the United States before the Supreme Court. Traci has lectured at the New York University School of Law on Supreme Court practice and advocacy, and in July 2002, was featured in a New York Law Journal article concerning the Firm's Supreme Court practice.