Peter Huston, a former assistant chief in the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, is the latest addition to Baker Botts' San Francisco office, joining the firm from Sidley Austin. Huston will be ...

Baker Botts offices in Washington, D.C. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM. Texas firm Baker Botts has continued its London expansion, hiring two partners in the city from other large law firms. Richard ...

Baker Botts has advised Morocco on a €2.25 billion dual-tranche sovereign note issuance on the international capital markets.

The Supreme Court has not handled its recent major bankruptcy decisions well. The jurisdictional confusion engendered by its 2011 decision in Stern v. Marshall was only partially clarified by this ...

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David Pommerening has joined law firm Baker Botts as a partner in the firm’s Washington D.C. office, where he will lead the office’s corporate transactions practice. He previously was a partner with O ...

Baker Botts matches the associate bonus scales set by Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Houston-founded Baker Botts is the first Big Law firm in Texas to follow Cravath's move. The year-end bonuses range from ...

FACTS:Floyd and Kathleen Cailloux hired Baker Botts to devise an estate plan for their multimillion-dollar estate. Floyd died before Baker Botts could finish all stages of the estate plan. Given the ...

The Supreme Court two years ago ruled in Baker Botts v. Asarco that bankruptcy professionals entitled to compensation from a debtor’s bankruptcy estate had no statutory right to be compensated for ...

Asarco, a century-old Tuscon-based mining company, had one of the most successful bankruptcy reorganizations in history, by any standard. The judge who oversaw the case was effusive when, after four ...