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Scott Janoe
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Work Department
Litigation / Environmental, Safety & Incident Response
Position
Partner
Section Chair – Environmental, Safety & Incident Response (Firmwide)
Career
Scott Janoe is Baker Botts’s Firmwide Section Chair – Environmental, Safety, and Incident Response. He represents corporate clients in EHS litigation, crisis response, compliance, ESG, and enforcement matters on the state and federal levels across the nation.
Scott clerked for the Honorable John Duhe Jr. in the Fifth Circuit from 1999-2000. In 2000 he started practicing at Baker Botts and is currently a partner as well as the Firmwide Chair of the Environmental, Safety & Incident Response Section. Scott is licensed in Texas, North Dakota and Oklahoma.
Memberships
Environmental Law Institute – Advisory Board
Education
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1999;
B.A. (magna cum laude), government, Georgetown University, 1996 (Phi Beta Kappa)
Personal
Publications
Merging Environmental Safety and Incident Response Teams, ELI Insider, 2020
BOEM and BSEE Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Client Update, 2020
CFTC Report Recommends U.S. Financial Regulatory Reforms to Address Climate-Related Risks, ESG Client Update, 2020
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Environment > Environment: litigation
Clients turn to the team at Baker Botts L.L.P. for its expertise handling toxic tort, natural resource damage claims, defending against class and individual lawsuits arising from air, water and land contamination. Scott Janoe leads the group from Houston, attracting a spread of clients from the energy, mining and manufacturing sectors seeking assistance with enforcement defense and crisis management. The Washington DC office fields Megan Berge, who is recommended for her experience handling climate change mandates, Steven Solow, who deals with environmental incidents within the maritime, chemicals, mining and utilities spheres, and Nadira Clarke, who has extensive white collar crime and civil trial experience. Shailesh Sahay joined the DC team in July 2023 from Foley Hoag LLP, bringing with him experience handling climate, environmental and sustainability issues at federal, state, and international levels.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions