“I am a strategic advisor who connects leaders, institutions, and opportunity.

My work centers on helping clients navigate complex environments, manage legal and public policy risk, build consequential relationships, and position themselves effectively with the decision-makers that shape their interests.

Over the course of my career, I have represented and advised stakeholders across the country before the United States Congress, regulatory agencies, and the White House. I bring to this work a deep understanding of government and institutions, seasoned judgment, and relationships developed over many years in public service, politics, law, and business.

My approach is deliberately bipartisan and relationship-driven. Political leadership changes; credibility, judgment, discretion, and trusted relationships endure. This perspective has enabled me to serve clients effectively across administrations and regardless of which political party holds power.

— Travis Lucas

Profile

With more than thirty years of experience spanning government, politics, law, and business, Travis Lucas serves as a trusted advisor to business leaders and organizations navigating consequential matters in Washington and beyond.

Travis advises companies, associations, nonprofit organizations, and other institutions operating in complex and highly regulated environments. His work encompasses government relations, political and regulatory risk, legal and strategic counsel, and executive engagement.

His professional experience is unusually broad. Travis has served as a congressional chief of staff and legal counsel, a senior aide to a prominent agency official, assistant attorney general, criminal prosecutor, corporate attorney, and trial court judge. He has managed successful statewide and congressional political campaigns and served as appointed legal counsel to presidential campaigns.

Over the course of his career, Travis has also served as a privately retained advisor and legal counsel to Members of Congress, presidential cabinet officials, White House personnel, corporate executives, boards, and other institutional leaders. He has been retained on multiple occasions by presidential appointees across different administrations to provide strategic counsel and assistance during the United States Senate confirmation process.

While in London in 2023, Travis advanced the concept of a formal economic partnership between the State of Texas and the United Kingdom. He subsequently brought together the British Prime Minister's Trade Envoy and the Governor of Texas, helping initiate discussions that ultimately resulted in a formal agreement being executed at 10 Downing Street in London on March 13, 2024.

Travis works in partnership with his longtime mentor, Patrick Jephson, the former Private Secretary (chief of staff) to Diana, Princess of Wales.

Bloomberg Government has recognized Travis among Washington’s boutique professionals demonstrating sustained year-to-year growth and long-term client retention.

Advisory Practice

• Travis represents and advises clients before the United States Congress and regulatory agencies. His work combines substantive policy advocacy with strategic counsel concerning when, where, how, and with whom clients should engage to advance their objectives.

• He advises senior executives on political, public policy, regulatory, legal, and institutional developments that may affect their business interests, competitive position, or long-term strategy. His role frequently extends beyond a particular legislative or regulatory matter, providing leadership with an experienced outside perspective on the environment surrounding consequential decisions.

• Travis also convenes and facilitates highly curated private engagements bringing together business leaders, policymakers, senior government officials, investors, diplomats, and institutional leaders from the United States and abroad. These invitation-only gatherings encourage substantive dialogue, develop meaningful relationships, exchange perspectives, and explore issues involving public policy, economics, investment, business strategy, and institutional leadership.

Professional Experience

• Congressional Chief of Staff

• Congressional Legal Counsel

• Senior Aide to an Agency Cabinet-Level Official

• Senior Aide on Intergovernmental Relations at a Regulating Agency

• Trial Court Judge

• Assistant Attorney General

• Criminal Prosecutor

• Corporate Attorney

• Political Campaign Manager

• Founder of Two Private Law Firms

• Founder of a Public Affairs Consultancy

• Private Business Investor

As a trial court judge, Travis adjudicated more than 50,000 civil and criminal matters and presided over numerous jury and bench trials.

His political experience includes managing two successful statewide campaigns and four successful congressional campaigns, as well as serving as appointed legal counsel to two presidential campaigns.

Education

Baylor University School of Law
Juris Doctor
Trial Law & Advocacy

Texas A&M University
Bachelor of Science, Cum Laude
Political Science, Economics & Business

Columbia Business School
Executive Program Certificate
Complex Business Negotiations

Law Licenses & Court Admissions

Travis is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Virginia, and State of Texas.

He is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and numerous state and federal trial and appellate courts in which he has appeared as counsel of record.