Baker Botts L.L.P.
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Baker Botts L.L.P. is a market leader in high-stakes oil and gas litigation, regularly handling some of the most significant cases in the industry. The Houston-based team is deeply experienced in disputes arising from major onshore and offshore shale plays across the US, as well as infrastructure, services, environmental, and IP matters of nationwide importance. Its litigators appear before federal and state trial and appellate courts, administrative and regulatory bodies, and international arbitration tribunals. The team advises on a wide spectrum of disputes, including production sharing and joint operating agreements, gas gathering and processing contracts, price reviews, drilling and unitization issues, royalties, pipelines, and EPC claims, supported by close integration with complementary practice areas. Co-head William Kroger is widely regarded as a leading US energy litigator. Co-head Louis Layrisson brings broad commercial trial expertise across oil and gas. Amy Hefley, Tina Nguyen, Laura Shoemaker McGonagill, and Tiffany Means add substantial depth across complex commercial and energy disputes spanning the value chain. Jason Newman has left the firm.
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Key clients
- Apache Corporation
- Chevron U.S.A., Inc.
Work highlights
Representing ConocoPhillips, in securing a landmark Texas Supreme Court ruling confirming that operators, not surface landowners, own “produced water” generated during oil and gas production, establishing precedent on a previously unaddressed issue and affirming mineral lessees’ rights, with significant implications for industry operations and related litigation.