Baker Botts L.L.P.
Baker Botts is an international law firm recognized for our creative approach to the legal and business issues facing our clients. The work we do is often groundbreaking.With approximately 750 lawyers and a worldwide network of offices, Baker Botts works with our clients on a wide range of matters. Our approach to the law practice is collaborative, with lawyers functioning as integrated teams to bring the most appropriate response to client needs.
Baker Botts has a long and distinguished tradition of service to clients in Texas and around the world. The firm traces its history to the earliest days of Texas, when founding partner Peter Gray was admitted to the bar of the Republic of Texas in January of 1840, just three years after the city of Houston was founded. In 1874, Mr. Gray left the firm, by then called Gray, Botts & Baker, when he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Texas, and after his departure, his two partners, Colonel W.B. Botts and Judge James A. Baker, changed the firm name to Baker & Botts. The name continued to change slightly throughout the decades until 2000, when the official name became Baker Botts L.L.P.
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Executives
Managing Director
Walter J. (Walt) Smith
CFO
Lydia Companion