J. Mark Little

Mark Little focuses his practice on complex legal and regulatory challenges. He has significant experience protecting clients’ interests through challenges to national, state, and local regulations. Most recently, Mark has been at the forefront of the legal challenges against state and local governments’ attempts to ban natural gas in new and existing buildings.

Mark also represents clients in a broad range of appeals and original proceedings in federal and state courts across the country. He has argued a number of cases in courts ranging from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to the Texas and Washington Supreme Courts.

Mark is the Chair-Elect of the Houston Bar Association's Appellate Section and Editor-in-Chief of the Appellate Lawyer, the Section's Journal. He received his law degree from The University of Texas, where he graduated first in his class, was on the editorial board of the Texas Law Review, and received awards in trial advocacy and moot court competitions.

Before joining Baker Botts, Mark served as a law clerk to the Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.