June 4, 2026 – Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology, and life sciences law firm, earned 59 practice area rankings and 125 individual lawyer rankings in the Chambers USA 2026 guide across key practices, industries, and markets. The Firm earned 13 Band 1 practice rankings and 22 top-tier lawyer rankings, including Star Individual and Band 1 recognitions.

Chambers recognized the Firm’s expanding nationwide Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation) practice with a two-band rise in the 2026 guide. Baker Botts earned four first-time practice rankings and 21 first-time lawyer rankings and improved its rankings in four practices and 21 individual rankings.

The results follow a year in which Baker Botts continued to invest in talent and capabilities across priority practices and markets. The Firm added a record 53 partners over the past year, strengthening practices that earned first-time or improved rankings, including across energy, intellectual property, and litigation.

“These results reflect the choices we have made to build where our clients are headed,” said Managing Partner Danny David. “We have added depth across our platform and built out our energy, technology, transactional, disputes, and regulatory capabilities. The new and improved rankings in the 2026 guide are evidence of that work.”

The firm's 59 practice rankings are:

Nationwide: Antitrust
Nationwide: Antitrust: Cartel
Nationwide: Climate Change
Nationwide: Corporate/M&A
Nationwide: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Nationwide: Energy Transition
Nationwide: Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)
Nationwide: Energy: Electricity (Transactional)
Nationwide: Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation)
Nationwide: Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)
Nationwide: Environment
Nationwide: ERISA Litigation
Nationwide: Intellectual Property
Nationwide: Intellectual Property: Appellate
Nationwide: Intellectual Property: Patent Trial and Appeals Board
Nationwide: Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets
Nationwide: International Arbitration
Nationwide: International Trade: Intellectual Property (Section 337)
Nationwide: Life Sciences
Nationwide: Occupational Safety and Health
Nationwide: Oil & Gas Litigation
Nationwide: Projects: LNG
Nationwide: Projects: Oil & Gas
Nationwide: Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy
Nationwide: Tax: Controversy
Nationwide: Tax: Corporate & Finance
California: Environment
California: Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation
California: Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution
District of Columbia: Antitrust
District of Columbia: Environment
District of Columbia: Intellectual Property: Litigation
District of Columbia: Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution
District of Columbia: Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
New York: Corporate/M&A
New York: Intellectual Property: Patent
New York: Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Texas: Banking & Finance
Texas: Bankruptcy / Restructuring
Texas: Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
Texas: Corporate / M&A
Texas: Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation (Electricity)
Texas: Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation (Oil & Gas)
Texas: Environment
Texas: Intellectual Property
Texas: Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets
Texas: Litigation: Appellate
Texas: Litigation: Securities
Texas: Real Estate
Texas: Tax
Texas: Tax: Litigation
Texas: Tax: State & Local
Texas: Technology: Corporate & Commercial
Texas: Water Law
Texas: Austin & Surrounds: Litigation: General Commercial
Texas: Dallas & Surrounds: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Texas: Dallas & Surrounds: Litigation: General Commercial
Texas: Houston & Surrounds: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Texas: Houston & Surrounds: Litigation: General Commercial

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