Clint Cowan

Clint is Of Counsel at LPHS, where he represents businesses and individuals in a wide array of complex commercial cases. Clint was previously a partner at Kirkland & Ellis and an associate at LPHS.

Clint maintains a diverse trial and appellate practice serving some of the nation’s largest energy, pharmaceutical, consumer products, and retail businesses in state and federal courts and arbitrations.

He has extensive experience in energy contract disputes, with a focus on midstream commercial issues. Clint also has significant experience in mass tort litigation, having represented clients in multiple MDLs involving product liability, public nuisance, deceptive trade practice, consumer protection, premises liability, and negligence claims. He has conducted investigations for special committees and has advised boards of directors on issues related to creditor claims, fiduciary duties, and employment disputes. He has experience assisting companies in responding to FTC and state attorney general investigations and civil investigative demands, as well as litigating against state attorneys general. He has also represented brands in the retail and travel industries in claims for trade secret misappropriation and breach of confidentiality.

Clint is experienced in noncompete and restrictive-covenant cases involving departed executives, having secured and defended against claims for injunctive relief and damages. Clint has also represented investors and principals in family office and private equity portfolio disputes. In addition, Clint has litigated insurance-coverage cases (insurer and policyholder), commercial lease disputes, and antitrust suits.

Clint also maintains an active First Amendment commercial speech practice on behalf of clients engaged in door-to-door sales. He and others at the firm regularly litigate § 1983 challenges to commercial solicitation bans and curfews, license restrictions, and solicitation bonds and fees. These efforts have led to ordinance changes in more than 100 municipalities nationwide, preliminary and permanent injunctions, and § 1988 attorneys’ fee awards in federal court.

In addition to his litigation practice, Clint regularly assists clients in pre-litigation investigations and analysis. He has advised multiple private equity funds on litigation risks for potential energy and retail industry transactions. And he advises clients on earnout and post-closing disputes in the energy and retail industries.

Clint also maintains an active pro bono practice through the firm’s partnership with Advocates for Community Transformation (ACT).

Clint attended the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was Managing Editor of the Virginia Law & Business Review and President of Virginia Law Families. He was also a member of the Appellate Litigation Clinic, through which he and a classmate won an abuse-of-discretion ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on behalf of a client serving a federal sentence. Prior to law school, Clint graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and taught high school math for four years through the Memphis Teacher Residency.

He and his wife Lizzie are the busy and proud parents of three young children.