Josh Morrow focuses on advocacy and strategy in complex litigation involving commercial, administrative, and constitutional law. He has authored briefs at all levels of the state and federal courts, and he has presented oral argument at both the trial and appellate levels.
Mr. Morrow has particular experience litigating in the areas of sovereign immunity, state constitutional law, insurance, breach of contract, and energy and environmental law. He has represented clients in challenges to local, state, and federal statutes and regulations, and he also has significant pro bono experience in the fields of religious liberty and academic freedom.
Before joining Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP, Mr. Morrow worked in the Appellate and Supreme Court practice group at Baker Botts LLP in Austin, Texas. He served as a law clerk to Judge Don R. Willett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and to Justice Jeffrey V. Brown of the Supreme Court of Texas.
Publications
The Specificity Tax, 22 Scribes J. Legal Writing ___ (forthcoming 2024)
Ratifying the Texas Constitution, 11 J. Tex. Sup. Ct. Hist. Soc’y 44 (2022).
There Is Only One Texas Constitution, 52 St. Mary’s L.J. 765 (2021).
Court Admissions
Texas Bar
United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Sixth Circuits
Education
J.D., Harvard Law School, 2017
B.A., Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, 2014