W. Seth Cook

Seth Cook is an associate whose practice focuses on commercial appeals. Since joining the firm, Seth has worked on commercial cases in the Texas courts of appeals and Supreme Court of Texas, as well as antitrust and oil & gas appeals to the Fifth Circuit. In his pro bono practice, Seth represented an amicus curiae in a death penalty case before the U.S. Supreme Court, and he works with the ACLU defending academic freedom in Texas.

Seth has also published scholarly work on standing doctrine, Batson claims in Texas, moral and religious language in capital defense, and constitutional rights for transgender minors. His work has been published in the Texas Review of Litigation, Texas Journal of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, the Texas Tech Law Review, and the Penn State Law Review Statim.

Before joining the firm, Seth served as a law clerk to the Honorable Andrew S. Hanen of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and Justice Debra H. Lehrmann of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Seth graduated with honors from The University of Texas School of Law, where he was a Chief Justice Joe Greenhill Scholar, served as Chief Symposium Editor for the Texas Review of Litigation, and worked as a teaching and research assistant to Professor Lawrence Sager. In addition, Seth represented numerous death-sentenced clients as a student attorney in Texas Law’s Capital Punishment Clinic. He also holds a B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Legal Studies from the University of Arkansas. While there, he was named to the Dean’s and Chancellor’s Lists and Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society.

During law school, Seth interned for the Honorable Tony Davis of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Texas, and he was a summer associate at an international law firm, where he worked on antitrust, patent, and appellate matters.

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Presentations & Publications

• The Role of Moral Language in Death Penalty Advocacy, 130 Penn State Law Review Statim (2026)
• The Constitutional Perils of Juror Excusal Agreements, 57 Texas Tech Law Review 401 (2025)
  • Cited in: Petition for Writ of Certiorari, Irsan v. State, 25-5665 (Sept. 12, 2025)
• Note, Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Pursuing a Clear and Functional Equal Protection Framework for Transgender Youth, 28 Texas Journal of Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 223 (2023)
• Note, Standing for the Lorax, 41 of Litigation 409 (2022)