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Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices

Baker Botts L.L.P.
910 LOUISIANA STREET
HOUSTON
TEXAS 77002-4995
TEXAS
United States
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Bill Kroger

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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 has chaired or co-chaired the Baker Botts Energy Litigation Practice Group for over 15 years. He also 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. Bill has handled many of the most complex disputes involving hydraulic fracturing in the shale plays and the siting and construction of renewable energy facilities. The National Law Journal has recognized Bill as an “Energy Trailblazer.”

Memberships

Bill served as President of the Houston Bar Association for the 2020-21 bar year, during which Bill led the HBA during the worst phases of the Covid-19 crisis. He has completed his second three-year term as a Director of the State Bar of Texas, where he served on its Executive Committee. He was also elected to the American Law Institute in 2015. He serves as a Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of Communities in Schools Houston and as a Director of the Houston Grand Opera. Bill is also the General Counsel of the Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts. He also was elected, and currently serves as, Chancellor of the Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church.

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.

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