Lukas Reiter

Lukas Reiter is an American television executive and former lawyer. As a law student he was a mock trial competitor, and he later became a writer for The Practice. He has also written for television shows such as Boston Legal, Close to Home, Outlaw and The Forgotten. He has also served as a producer for shows such as Law & Order, and The Firm.

Early law career Reiter was a cum laude of the Temple University Beasley School of Law and is a Northwestern University alumnus with a Bachelor of Science degree in speech. He won the mock trial championship at the 1995 National Trial Competition with Robert E. Kelly. He won the George A. Spiegelberg Award for Best Oral Advocate at the 1995 American College of Trial Lawyers National Trial Competition. Reiter felt he would become a trial lawyer.

Television executive career Reiter's first script, which was about his professional experiences up to that date caught the attention of Creative Artists Agency agent Peter Micelli, who has continued to be his agent. That year, he won a Humanitas Prize when The Practice "Honor Code" episode (November 18, 2001) which he co-wrote with Kelly tied with Aaron Sorkin's "Two Cathedrals" episode of The West Wing.

Having been a fan of both the movie version and the book of The Firm, Reiter sought out their creator, John Grisham, to explain his own curiosity about what happened to the characters beyond the endings of those parts of the franchise.

In 2013, Reiter joined the writing staff of NBC's The Blacklist, serving as a Consulting Producer, and later as a Co-Executive Producer in the show's first season, and eventually rising to the role of Executive Producer through the show's first seven seasons.