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Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices

910 LOUISIANA STREET
HOUSTON
TEXAS 77002-4995
TEXAS
United States
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Kevin Jacobs

Work Department
Litigation
Position
Partner
Section Chair – Litigation (Firmwide)
Career
Kevin Jacobs’ trial practice focuses on commercial disputes and arbitrations for clients in the energy, chemicals, transportation, and life sciences industries. Mr. Jacobs’ work in the energy space has included renewables, power, mid-stream, and downstream disputes before courts, regulatory bodies, and arbitration panels. He has tried over twenty lawsuits, arbitrations, and regulatory proceedings to decision, including eleven jury trials, in five different states. His trial practice is centered on his talent for effectively conveying his clients’ stories to juries, judges, and arbitrators. His cases have involved a broad range of claims, including breach of contract, trade secret misappropriation, fraud, environmental, construction, product liability, premises liability, and other business torts.
Memberships
State Bar of Texas
United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Tenth Circuits
United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas
United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
Texas Bar Foundation
Houston Bar Association
Houston Bar Foundation
Education
J.D., The University of Texas School of Law 1999
with honors
Order of the Coif
Associate Editor, Texas Law Review
B.A., Mathematics, The University of Texas 1996
with high honors
Phi Beta Kappa
Leisure
When not practicing law, he enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, especially on the Little League fields.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
Baker Botts L.L.P. continues to advise global corporations in a wide variety of services related to class action, product liability and toxic tort litigation, with specialisms in defending tort and nuisance litigation claims arising from a full range of environmental events, claimed exposure to a large variety of alleged toxins and residential contamination of dwellings and neighborhoods. Heading the Houston office, Russell Lewis has litigated for a variety of clients dealing with government investigations and environmental matters, while Benjamin Gonsoulin , also in Houston, covers the full spectrum of defense with regards to tort and nuisance litigation. Gonsoulin is also noted for his assistance provided to energy based clients in crisis responses for major environmental incidents including leaks, spills and explosions. Washington DC-based Joshua Frank handles environmental litigation matters under environmental statutes and regulatory program including the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act. Houston based Kevin Jacobs’ energy space practice covers renewables, power, mid-stream and downstream disputes before courts and regulatory bodies. With prior experience working as a trial lawyer for the environmental department of the Department of Justice, Kent Mayo, who is situated in Washington DC, represents clients in compliance and enforcement matters related to statutes including the Clean Air Act.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
Firm Rankings
- 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
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- 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
- 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
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization