Josh Morrow focuses on advocacy and strategy in complex litigation involving constitutional, administrative, and commercial 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 substantial experience at the intersection of the First Amendment and emerging technologies, with a focus on generative artificial intelligence and online services. He develops, advises on, and litigates innovative arguments supporting constitutional protections for the creation and distribution of protected online and offline expression. He has broad experience with Section 230 and the regulation of social media services, and he regularly designs strategies for applying existing precedent to rapidly evolving technologies.
Beyond the First Amendment, Mr. Morrow has particular experience litigating in the areas of sovereign immunity, state constitutional law, breach of contract, and energy and environmental law. He represents clients in challenges to local, state, and federal statutes and regulations, and he has significant experience in the fields of religious liberty and academic freedom.
Mr. Morrow also has extensive experience in emergency proceedings. He has drafted motions for temporary restraining orders, preliminary injunctions, stays, mandamus, and other expedited relief in state and federal trial courts and courts of appeals, and in the Supreme Court of the United States. His practice includes complex administrative law disputes under the Administrative Procedure Act and similar state laws, including ultra vires claims and challenges to agency action. He also litigates and advises on major environmental disputes involving the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act.
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 85 (2025)
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 First, Fifth, Sixth, Tenth, and District of Columbia Circuits
United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
Education
J.D., Harvard Law School, 2017
B.A., Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, 2014