North America

Throughout its 170-year history, Baker Botts has represented a wide range of clients who have helped shape the nation’s position in the global marketplace. Our lawyers have provided legal counsel to individuals, companies and organizations in strategically important industries such as oil, transportation, technology and telecommunications.

Our clients use traditional business models, innovative strategies and everything in between-and the complexity of these structures requires us to maintain a deep understanding of equally complex legal issues. We serve companies of all sizes, from global corporations with multiple locations to small online vendors. We represent these enterprises in front of regulatory agencies, in courts throughout the U.S. and abroad, and in transactional matters with the potential for far-reaching industry and economic impact.

Working with clients involved in a variety of industries, our lawyers-working individually or as part of a multi-faceted, multi-jurisdictional team-provide a broad range of services domestically and internationally. This includes counseling on major matters covering litigation, financial, environmental, telecommunications, government relations, and labor and employment issues.

Since many of our representations involve more than legal knowledge, our lawyers often have backgrounds-through education or work-related experience-in the fields in which they practice. For example, most of our intellectual property lawyers have science or technology degrees that allow them to thoroughly understand the challenges facing a client’s business.

Baker Botts has received considerable recognition from third-party sources for its work on behalf of clients. In addition to being named “Law Firm of the Year-Oil & Gas” for five of the past six years by Who’s Who Legal, the firm was recognized for its work in the energy, technology and life sciences sectors in the most recent Chambers USA and The Legal 500 publications.

We pride ourselves on the team approach we bring to every engagement, and we believe our collaborative approach improves the results we earn for our clients.