Peter Huston, a former assistant chief in the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, is the latest addition to Baker Botts' San Francisco office, joining the firm from Sidley Austin. Huston will be ...

John Martin, the incoming managing partner of Baker Botts. Courtesy photo Baker Botts incoming managing partner, John W. Martin, is looking to expand the Houston-based firm's presence in hot legal ...

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The Supreme Court has not handled its recent major bankruptcy decisions well. The jurisdictional confusion engendered by its 2011 decision in Stern v. Marshall was only partially clarified by this ...

Baker Botts matches the associate bonus scales set by Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Houston-founded Baker Botts is the first Big Law firm in Texas to follow Cravath's move. The year-end bonuses range from ...

Eleven of the dozen Texas-based corporate law firms in the Texas Lawbook 50 experienced record revenue and profit in 2025, ...

Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. The induction of George W. Bush into the Texas crony network can be traced to a precise date: June 6, 1962. On that date ...

FACTS:Floyd and Kathleen Cailloux hired Baker Botts to devise an estate plan for their multimillion-dollar estate. Floyd died before Baker Botts could finish all stages of the estate plan. Given the ...

Two advertisements appeared side-by-side in the Houston newspaper. One announced the opening of a new office for Jas. A. Baker. The second ad promoted a new partnership called Gray & Botts. While the ...

Asarco, a century-old Tuscon-based mining company, had one of the most successful bankruptcy reorganizations in history, by any standard. The judge who oversaw the case was effusive when, after four ...

“The history of Baker Botts is the history of Texas,” says real estate partner Pat Stanton (left), with Tim Durst, managing partner of the Dallas office. Rose Baca - Staff Photographer HOUSTON — Law ...