Bill Kroger > Baker Botts L.L.P. > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices
910 LOUISIANA STREET
HOUSTON
TEXAS 77002-4995
TEXAS
United States
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Bill Kroger
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Partner
Practice Group Chair – Energy Litigation (Firmwide)
Career
Bill represents clients on disputes in all energy sectors, including oil and gas, wind, solar, infrastructure and trading. Bill also handles other types of commercial litigation.
Bill chairs the Baker Botts Energy Litigation Practice Group and co-leads the firm’s Energy Sector. He has represented clients on many significant energy matters over the past 30 years, including force majeure claims, the deregulation of electrical utilities, the siting of the first coastal windfarms, litigation relating to frac bans and other drilling and production disputes, and lawsuits over the routing of pipelines and other infrastructure. The National Law Journal has recognized Bill as an “Energy Trailblazer.”
Memberships
Bill serves as President of the Houston Bar Association for the 2020-21 bar year, during which Bill led the Bar during the worst phases of the Covid-19 crisis. He currently is serving his second three-year term as a Director of the State Bar of Texas. He was also elected to the American Law Institute in 2015, and serves as a director of Communities in Schools Houston and The Alley Theatre. Bill is also the General Counsel of the Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts.
Personal
Bill has written and spoken on numerous energy law topics. He has also written and spoken on Texas legal history topics, and serves as Firm Historian.
Bill received the 2021 James B. Sales Pro Bono Award, the highest award given by the Houston Bar Foundation. He also was the 2020 Recipient of the Karen Susman Jurisprudence Award, presented by ADL to one lawyer annually “who exhibits an exceptional commitment to equality, justice, fairness, and community service.” He previously received the Leon Jaworski Award from the Houston Bar Auxiliary for a lifetime of public service. He is married to Elizabeth Mata Kroger, and they have three children.
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
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Antitrust > Merger control
- 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
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- 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)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Project finance
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense