Best Law Firms 2024 Texas Edition

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A Year of Legal Triumphs John Fields

American Independence: The Insurance Industry’s Grip on Our Nation, Our State and Our Bank Accounts Marc Gravely

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What Would Henry Do or Say? Talmage Boston

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Mergers and Acquisitions: A View of the Legal Landscape Justin Smulison

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A Corporate Guide to the Texas Business Courts

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Talmage Boston is a partner in the Dallas office of Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP, where he specializes in commercial litigation. He had the privilege of interviewing Henry Kissinger for the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth in 2013 and 2022. He’s also a historian whose fifth book, How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents, will be released on April 2, 2024.

He was first recognized by Best Lawyers for Commercial Litigation in 2013 and earned the distinguished “Lawyer of the Year” accolade for Litigation - Banking and Finance in Dallas/Fort Worth in 2018 and 2022. He was included in the 30th edition of The Best Lawyers in America ® for Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation and Litigation Banking and Finance in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

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Alan Dabdoub is a partner with Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann, representing plaintiffs and defendants in business torts, contract disputes, trade secrets litigation, fiduciary duty litigation, partnership disputes and bankruptcy litigation.

Marc Gravely is the founder of Gravely PC, a Texas-based firm devoted to insurance claim and construction defect disputes on behalf of businesses, homeowners associations and related organizations, and governmental entities.

Justin Smulison is a professional writer who regularly contributes to Best Lawyers. He was previously a reporter for the New York Law Journal and also led content and production for the Custom Projects Group at ALM Media.

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A Year of Legal Triumphs Renowned criminal defense lawyer Dan Cogdell reflects on a year of high-profile cases and a career spotlight in a Paramount series.

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HE YEAR 2023 marked a significant chapter in the storied career of criminal defense lawyer Dan Cogdell. The year began with him making a pivotal decision—to reopen his firm in downtown Houston after a brief stint with BigLaw. “I enjoyed my time with a larger firm, but the red tape and bureaucracy that is systemic in any larger firm often means that lawyers aren’t always assigned to cases based solely on their skill set,” he says. “Now that I’m back to running my own firm, I can do exactly that.”

In April, Cogdell was spotlighted in Paramount’s fivepart series “Waco: The Aftermath,” which focused on his role in the Branch Davidian trial three decades ago.

In the series, Cogdell is portrayed by actor Giovanni Ribisi, whose credits include Saving Private Ryan, Boiler Room, Avatar and Sneaky Pete. “It was a bit surreal to watch someone else play me, but Gio did a great job and he was a lovely guy to work with throughout the process,” says Cogdell. Ribisi faithfully recreated Cogdell’s efforts in that trial which resulted in an acquittal of all charges brought against his client in that matter, Clive Doyle.

As summer arrived, Cogdell and his team, which now includes veteran lawyer Sean Teare (currently running for Harris County District Attorney), represented the CEO of a concert promotion firm that co-produced the Astroworld/Travis Scott concert in Houston. Tragically, several concertgoers lost their lives during the concert.

Thanks to the efforts of Cogdell and his team, the Harris

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County Grand Jury ultimately decided not to bring any charges against that client.

Fall brought the resolution of another high-stakes matter as Cogdell and his associate, Anthony Osso, were part of a team that successfully represented Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his impeachment trial. Paxton, with Cogdell’s assistance, was acquitted on ever y ar t icle of i mpeachment brought by t he House in the trial before the Texas Senate. Cogdell continues to represent Paxton in an ongoing state securities fraud case.

Just 36 hours after the Paxton acquittal, Cogdell and Osso traveled to Dallas to begin a federal bribery and kickback trial in Dallas. After almost three months in trial, a mistrial was declared for their client in the matter. “ T r ia l s are not a n oppor t u n it y for on-t he -job training,” Cogdell observes. “They are a bloodsport and need to be viewed as such if you want to succeed for your clients; our many wins at trial are evidence of that. After forty plus years of trying cases all over this country, I believe my skill set in a courtroom is significant. That being said, it is the preparatory process that makes or breaks the result that happens in trial. As Nick Saban has said repeatedly, ‘it is the process that predetermines the outcome.’ I will put our process up with anyone else’s. Our opposition might be smarter or younger or have gone to a more prestigious school than us—but they won’t ever outwork us.” bestlawfirms.com

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Your firm’s work in a particular area is assessed through analyzing: • Feedback provided by your clients/professional references. ◦ Clients/professional references are emailed a survey addressing a firm’s expertise, responsiveness, understanding of a business and its needs, costeffectiveness, civility and whether they would refer another client to the firm. ◦ Reference submissions are always kept strictly confidential and are never shared or published elsewhere.

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by Best Lawyers.

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The quantitative and qualitative data is combined into an overall Best Law Firms score for each firm. Because firms were often separated by small differences in overall score, we use a tiering system rather than ranking law firms sequentially.

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or the 14th edition of Best Law Firms®, 1,481 exceptional Texas firms have been ranked in various areas of legal practice. The rankings encompass a diverse group of firms across the state, making the rankings a valuable research tool for the legal community as well as clients in search of legal counsel.

Presented in tiers, the rankings encompass 65 practice areas represented nationally among Texas ranked firms and 113

practice areas represented in nine Texas metro areas. Whether potential clients are representatives of Fortune 1000 companies or small business owners or individuals, we believe the Best Law Firms rankings provide a credible and reliable resource to assist in finding the right firm for their needs.

Our entire database, featuring all rankings in all tiers, is available at bestlawfirms.com.

Firms received metropolitan and national rankings in the following 113 practice areas: • ADMINISTRATIVE / REGULATORY LAW

• FINANCIAL SERVICES REGULATION LAW

• ADMIRALTY & MARITIME LAW

• FIRST AMENDMENT LAW

• ANTITRUST LAW

• FRANCHISE LAW

• APPELLATE PRACTICE

• GOVERNMENT RELATIONS PRACTICE

• ARBITRATION

• HEALTH CARE LAW

• AVIATION LAW

• IMMIGRATION LAW

• BANKING AND FINANCE LAW

• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW

• BANKRUPTCY AND CREDITOR DEBTOR RIGHTS / INSOLVENCY AND REORGANIZATION LAW

• INSURANCE LAW

• BET-THE-COMPANY LITIGATION • BIOTECHNOLOGY LAW • BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS (INCLUDING LLCS AND PARTNERSHIPS) • CLOSELY HELD COMPANIES AND FAMILY BUSINESSES LAW • COMMERCIAL FINANCE LAW • COMMERCIAL LITIGATION • CONSTRUCTION LAW • COPYRIGHT LAW • CORPORATE COMPLIANCE LAW • CORPORATE GOVERNANCE LAW • CORPORATE LAW • CRIMINAL DEFENSE: GENERAL PRACTICE • CRIMINAL DEFENSE: WHITE-COLLAR • DERIVATIVES AND FUTURES LAW • DUI/DWI DEFENSE • EDUCATION LAW • ELDER LAW • EMINENT DOMAIN AND CONDEMNATION LAW • EMPLOYEE BENEFITS (ERISA) LAW • EMPLOYMENT LAW - INDIVIDUALS • EMPLOYMENT LAW - MANAGEMENT • ENERGY LAW • ENERGY REGULATORY LAW • ENTERTAINMENT LAW - MOTION PICTURES & TELEVISION • ENTERTAINMENT LAW - MUSIC • ENVIRONMENTAL LAW • ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY LAW • FAMILY LAW • FAMILY LAW MEDIATION

• INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION - COMMERCIAL • INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION - GOVERNMENTAL • INTERNATIONAL MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS • INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FINANCE LAW • LABOR LAW - MANAGEMENT • LABOR LAW - UNION • LAND USE & ZONING LAW • LEGAL MALPRACTICE LAW - DEFENDANTS • LEGAL MALPRACTICE LAW - PLAINTIFFS • LEISURE AND HOSPITALITY LAW • LEVERAGED BUYOUTS AND PRIVATE EQUITY LAW • LITIGATION - ANTITRUST • LITIGATION - BANKING & FINANCE • LITIGATION - BANKRUPTCY • LITIGATION - CONSTRUCTION • LITIGATION - ENVIRONMENTAL • LITIGATION - ERISA • LITIGATION - FIRST AMENDMENT • LITIGATION - HEALTH CARE • LITIGATION - INSURANCE • LITIGATION - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

• MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS - DEFENDANTS • MASS TORT LITIGATION / CLASS ACTIONS - PLAINTIFFS • MEDIATION • MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAW - DEFENDANTS • MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAW - PLAINTIFFS • MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS LAW • MINING LAW • MORTGAGE BANKING FORECLOSURE LAW • MUNICIPAL LAW • NATURAL RESOURCES LAW • NONPROFIT / CHARITIES LAW • OIL & GAS LAW • PATENT LAW • PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION - DEFENDANTS • PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION - PLAINTIFFS • PRIVACY AND DATA SECURITY LAW • PRIVATE FUNDS / HEDGE FUNDS LAW • PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION - DEFENDANTS • PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION - PLAINTIFFS • PROFESSIONAL MALPRACTICE LAW - DEFENDANTS • PROFESSIONAL MALPRACTICE LAW - PLAINTIFFS • PROJECT FINANCE LAW • PUBLIC FINANCE LAW • RAILROAD LAW • REAL ESTATE LAW • SECURITIES / CAPITAL MARKETS LAW • SECURITIES REGULATION

• LITIGATION - LABOR & EMPLOYMENT

• SECURITIZATION AND STRUCTURED FINANCE LAW

• LITIGATION - LAND USE & ZONING

• SPORTS LAW

• LITIGATION - MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

• TAX LAW

• LITIGATION - MUNICIPAL

• TECHNOLOGY LAW

• LITIGATION - PATENT

• TRADEMARK LAW

• LITIGATION - REAL ESTATE

• TRANSPORTATION LAW

• LITIGATION - REGULATORY ENFORCEMENT (SEC, TELECOM, ENERGY)

• TRUSTS & ESTATES LAW

• LITIGATION - SECURITIES • LITIGATION - TAX • LITIGATION - TRUSTS & ESTATES

• UTILITIES LAW • VENTURE CAPITAL LAW • WATER LAW

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INSIGHT Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP

What Would Henry Do or Say? Using the life and wisdom of Henry Kissinger, one lawyer explains the best negotiation tactics and leadership traits that all lawyers should heed.

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the world turns in the 21st century, those in management positions (either at their law firms or other businesses now led by a lawyer) who seek to rise above their competitors and take their enterprise to new heights would do well to incorporate into their repertoire best practices in two critical areas of peak performance: stellar negotiation skills and the most valuable leadership traits. Where can you find the best information about these two fields of selfimprovement? It’s distilled into two books that revolve around the career and wisdom of one man: the late, great Henry Kissinger.

Negotiation Skills The analysis needed to understand how Dr. Kissinger went about negotiating his landmark transactions—most notably, the opening to China after decades of mutual hostility, achieving détente and the first nuclear arms control treaty with the Soviets at the height of the Cold War, bringing an end to America’s involvement in the Vietnam War at the Paris Peace Accords, and effectuating Egyptian and Syrian disengagement deals with Israel following their 1973 war—was done a few

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years ago by professors James Sebenius (Harvard Business School), Nicholas Burns (Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government) and Robert Mnookin (Harvard Law School), in their excellent book ”Kissinger the Negotiator: Lesson from Dealmaking at the Highest Level” (HarperCollins, 2018). The authors’ protagonist was so impressed with their approach and final product that he wrote the book’s foreword.

Among the many “actionable insights” gleaned from their research of Kissinger’s historic horse trading, which are detailed and supported by many examples in the book, are the following: • Start the engagement by identifying the desired final result for the negotiation while not losing sight of ongoing interests and existing positions.

• Fully research the person who will be across the table: his personality, his method of doing business, the full context of his position in his employer’s pecking order (and how he got there), his track record for credibility and his probable expectations and goals for the deal to be negotiated.

• In the words of Talleyrand: “Foresee the inevitable and expedite its occurrence,” and therefore, having started the process by

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knowing the end game’s goal and comparing it to one’s current position, formulate a plan that is efficient, imaginative and realistic to move from the starting gate to the finish line.

• To be able to maximize the scope of one’s plan, brainstorm and explore with one’s colleagues all commercial and legal options that could increase the number of potential bargaining chips.

• After doing what it takes to turn desired negotiation possibilities into bona fide bargaining chips (such possibilities being incentives and penalties capable of influencing one’s counterpart), determine how to play one’s hand in the most strategic sequence, which requires knowing the linkage among the factors in play.

• Once at the table with all parties present, recognize that moving toward the ultimate objective is more likely to happen if there’s rapport among the players. The best means of building rapport is to be empathetic, display a warm-hearted sense of humor, avoid lecturing or displaying arrogance, lis ten at tent i vel y and re sp e c t f ull y, communicate of fers calmly and with

precision, minimize tension and convey strength and flexibility as circumstances dictate. The emotional intelligence truth behind the need for rapport in negotiations is that if someone decides he likes you, he’s more likely to give you the benefit of the doubt.

• If new fact s or options arise during the negotiation or a counterpart takes an unexpected position, which make adherence to one’s original plan impossible, go with the new flow and see if a different but still acceptable resolution of the transaction can be achieved. The authors describe Kissinger’s approach whenever this situation arose: “Think strategically but act opportunistically.”

• W it h each exchange of of fer s and counteroffers, an essential consideration should always be: “If we make a deal based on these terms, will I be in a better position than if I make no deal at all?”—i.e., “How does the value of this deal, as it now stands, compare to the cost of impasse?”

• When a meeting of the minds finally occurs, draft a tight agreement that accurately reflects the deal that’s been struck, though

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“Once these best practices have been processed and incorporated into one’s playbook, the operative question for the lawyer to ask himself whenever he engages in negotiations and reaches a tipping point is clear: ‘What would Henry do?’”

recognize that there are situations where, in order to achieve closure, it’s necessar y to include a term that contains “carefully craf ted ambiguities” with which the parties can live in order to avoid impasse.

These can allow a party to save face and sometimes even declare victory when reporting back to his constituencies.

Once these best practices have been processed and incorporated into one’s playbook, the operative question for the lawyer to ask himself whenever he engages in negotiations and reaches a tipping point is clear: “What would Henry do?”

Leadership Traits For the lawyer leader who seeks to elevate himself and his enterprise to a higher level, shrewd guidance is available

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from Dr. Kissinger himself in his book “ Le ader ship: Six St udie s in Wor ld Strategy” (Penguin, 2022). His thoughts on leadership have special significance in the context of recognizing that these days, lawyers, not only lead law firms, many have leveraged their legal training to b e come le ader s of busine ss e s , universities, school boards, nonprofits and government institutions.

To draw his conclusions, Kissinger explored the most important traits, which drove the successes of six leaders whom he encountered during his diplomatic career: Konrad Adenauer (chancellor of Germany from 1949-1963), Charles de Gaulle (head of France from 19441946 and 1958-1969), Richard Nixon (president of the United States from January 1969-August 1974), Anwar Sadat (president of Egypt from 1970-1981), Lee Kuan Yew (prime minister of Singapore from 1959-1990) and Margaret Thatcher

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(prime minister of Great Britain from 1979-1990). He chose them because they each “transcended circumstances by their vision and dedication” and thereby “redefined national purposes, opened up new vistas, and contributed a new structure for a world in transition.”

Kissinger identified five “parallel qualities” in the six leaders which should be aspirational for all lawyer leaders: • “The capacity to understand the situat ion in which t hey found themselves; • The ability to devise a strategy to manage the present and shape the future; • The skill to move their people toward higher purposes; • T he readine ss to re c t if y t heir shortcomings; and • Their faith in the future.”

Besides these five shared trait s, each of Kissinger’s chosen leaders had other traits at which he or she was particularly adept, which are also worthy of emulation by any lawyer who sets his sights on leading himself, his law firm and/or the organization he now leads to new heights: • Adenauer: “humility, integrity and persistence.”

• de Gaulle: “unyielding determination and historical vision.”

• Nixon: “the ability to find equilibrium and then make decisions amid constantly shifting situations.”

• Sadat: “ascendance over his predecessor’s past failed policies, and the spiritual capacity to forge peace.”

• Yew: “committed to excellence in all aspects of his country and having the imagination to build a new multiethnic society.”

• Thatcher: “strength of conviction, principled leadership and tenacity.”

As Kissinger identified and then described in

detail these qualities demonstrated by his chosen leaders, he made their strengths appear available to all who put themselves in positions where challenging circumstances are properly analyzed, risks are managed, means fit ends, prudent decisions get made, trust is earned and promises are kept.

By his words and deeds, Henry Kissinger was not just an esteemed scholar and statesman; he was also a master teacher. Though he passed away on November 29, 2023, his wisdom lives on and is available to lawyers and everyone else who studies the lessons of his life and the substance of his writings. As a lawyer develops over the course of his/her career into becoming more skilled at addressing ever-rising demands in wide varieties of fields, it’s nice to know there are readily available sources of information like these two Kissinger books that can improve the likelihood of success of not just those who read them. They can also bear fruit for the benefit of the reader’s clients, law firms and other enterprises fortunate enough to have a lawyer as their leader. •

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INSIGHT Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann

A Corporate Guide to the Texas Business Courts Everything you need to know about the newest judicial system in the Lone Star state.

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o r t h o s e w h o d o b usi n e s s i n Texas or are considering doing so, mark your calendars. September 1, 2024, is the birthdate of a new judicial system in Texas—the Texas Business Courts. This dramatic change aims to resolve complex business disputes more efficiently than under the current civil court system. Texas is somewhat late to the party as the 30th state to create such courts. Although the law (House Bill 19) became effective September 1, 2023, the new Business Courts won’t hear cases until after September 1, 2024. Big things require considerable preparation: there is a 12-month ramp-up time to confirm judges, put in rules and erect the necessary infrastructure.

Why is Texas doing this?

There are several reasons, but the general idea is to have a forum for businesses to resolve their business disputes more quickly, to have judges with a business background or prior judicial experience decide such cases and to try to foster a business-friendly environment.

Time will tell whether the Business Courts will achieve such goals.

How many Business Courts will there be, and when will they open?

For starters, five judicial divisions will cover the Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio areas. These

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first divisions are pilot projects. The goal is to have 11 Business Court divisions throughout Texas eventually. The creation of the other six divisions, which would serve rural Texas, is deferred to the 2025 Texas Legislature for approval and funding.

How are Business Court judges qualified?

Business Court judges must be at least 35; a U.S. citizen; a resident of the division for at least five years; and a licensed attorney with at least 10 years of experience in corporate transactional work, complex business litigation, previous experience as a civil court judge in Texas or a combination of the three. With the advice and consent of the Texas Senate, the governor will appoint Business Court judges to two-year renewable terms.

Each of the five initial divisions will have two judges, and the remaining six rural divisions—if created and funded by the 2025 Legislature—will have one.

How will the Business Courts work?

A party can file a suit in the Business Courts or remove a case to the Business Courts from the court in which the case was originally filed. HB 19 also has a transfer provision that will allow a court in which a case was initially filed to request the transfer of the case to the Business Court if it is deemed to be within the

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Business Court’s jurisdiction.

What about jury trials?

Business Court cases can be tried by a jury when required by the Texas Constitution. Although the Business Courts will be statewide, jury trials will be held in the county where the case could have originally been filed. But if a contract between the parties to a Business Court case contains a venue provision, a jury trial of that case will occur in the agreed venue. The parties to a Business Court case can also agree to have a trial in any county they choose.

Will the Business Courts Issue Written Opinions?

Yes. One of the reasons the business community suppor ted HB 19 is the requirement for the Business Courts to issue written opinions. Proponents say this should lead to a more developed co m m e rc ia l law b o d y a n d i nfo r m businesses how their future disputes may pan out.

How does a party appeal a judgment from the Business Courts?

A new appeals court (the 15th Court of Appeals in Austin) will have exclusive intermediate appellate jurisdiction over the Business Courts. This appeals court will have five justices, initially appointed by the governor but elected after that.

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“Companies should examine contracts and consider whether to have such disputes handled in the Business Courts.”

What disputes will the Business Courts hear?

The Business Courts will hear disputes over $5 million or $10 million that fit within specific categories in the statute. A few examples include disputes regarding an organization’s governance or internal affairs, securities litigation and breach of contract in which the parties agreed to venue in the Business Courts. Regardless of the amount of controversy, if a company is publicly traded, the Business Courts will have jurisdiction if the case pertains to certain types of disputes, such as securities litigation.

Can parties agree to sue or be sued in the Business Courts?

Yes. HB 19 will likely influence how parties address venue and jurisdiction in their contracts. HB 19 authorizes parties to agree to the jurisdiction of the Business Court through their contract (provided at least $10 million is in controversy).

Due to the small number of Business Court divisions and the appointment of judges, sophisticated parties may prefer having their commercial disputes heard in the Business Courts. But the devil

is in the details. If one of the Business Court districts that is not yet authorized is the appropriate district, a company may consider including one of the districts already operating in the forum selection clause.

What do opponents of the Business Courts say?

Opponents say that the Business Courts create two justice systems and that no empirical studies show the need for judicial reforms in Texas. Further, the 15th Court of Appeals will prevent Texans from appealing their cases directly to locally elected judges. Expect constitutional challenges to the Business Courts, including the argument that appointing judges violates the Texas Constitution, which requires district court judges to be elected. Opponents further argue that the limited jurisdiction of the Fifteenth Court of Appeals violates the Texas Constitution, which requires that the Court of Appeals must have appellate jurisdiction co-extensive with the limits of their respective districts. Another potential challenge is that the Business Courts may violate the right to a jury trial.

Won’t the Texas Business Courts lead to more commercial litigation?

Possibly, and here’s how. One of HB 19’s purposes is to require written opinions to have a more well developed body of case law on complex business disputes. Without cases being filed in the Business Courts, there can be no judgments or written opinions. The more cases filed, the more written opinions.

It will, of course, take time for a body of case law from the Texas Business Courts and the 15th Court of Appeals to develop.

Finally, is there anything businesses should be doing to prepare?

Like it or not, the Business Courts will be here before you know it. Now is the time to prepare and plan. Companies should examine contracts and consider whether to have such disputes handled in the Business Courts.

By talking now to your legal department or outside counsel to determine how the Business Courts may impact your company, you may be one step ahead of your adversaries by better understanding how the Business Courts will work to resolve certain commercial disputes. •

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American Independence: The Insurance Industry’s Grip on Our Nation, Our State and Our Bank Accounts Marc Gravely

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nsurance. You may not consciously think about it ver y much, but you should. Your clients count on you to do so, even if they don’t realize it.

Insurance is essential, ubiquitous and often a critical, if not dominant, consideration in every human financial activity. It affects even the most quotidian decisions business owners face: Do I need business interruption coverage?

Are the coverage limits on the company auto policy sufficient? Is that contractor bonded and insured? If our CPA messes up the taxes, what’s my recourse?

Fo r a law ye r, in su r a n ce l o o ms large over every action you perform, particularly if you represent business owners. The existence and details of insurance coverage—whether protecting them directly or available to them from third parties—are inextricably linked to the services you provide, and the claim process is an inseparable part of that coverage. It’s within that claim process that friction exists between the publicly stated purpose of insurance coverage and the actual financial goals of the insurance companies.

A little background is in order.

W hile o ur f ir m’s e x p er ien ce is centered primarily in Texas, the impact of insurance on commercial activities

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in ever y st ate is parallel, as is the unavoidable tension between insurance interests and those of other businesses.

Also, unless you and your clients conduct business in just a few upper East Coast locales, most insurance companies you deal with will be from other states.

As an illustration of this phenomenon, consider that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners repor t, State Insurance Regulation in Texas: Key Facts and Market Trends, reflects that of 2,040 insurance carriers doing business in Texas in 2021, only 412 had a physical office in the state.

D o e s t h i s m a ke a d i f f e r e n c e?

Does being a part of a local business community and doing business in the state of one’s domicile impart some concern for that communit y’s wellbeing? Perhaps, perhaps not. Certainly, however, nearly 80% of carriers writing policies in Texas—and likely a similar percentage in your state, would have no way of knowing. They are not local, and their concern for the local business community is confined to the premium dollars flowing away from it and in their direction.

Just how pervasive is the insurance enterprise?

It is an industry accounting for more

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than 7% of the world’s economy, and it is no less a significant portion of the United States financial picture. In 2021, net insurance premiums were $1.4 trillion, 53% for property and casualty coverage.

The U.S. workforce includes 3 million people working in the insurance industry, with more than 1.6 million employed directly by insurance companies.

Now and historically, insurance has held enormous sway over political and legislative processes in the United St ate s . For a det aile d anal y sis of insurance interests’ role in our country’s transition from a set of British colonies to an independent nation, see Underwriters of the United States by Hannah Farber, Universit y of Nor th Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 2021.

During the latter part of the 18th century, the ground rules for conducting business in the developing nation were set out in the lex mercatoria, or “law of merchants,” an unenacted but “revered body of rules, customs, and best practices” cited as authority in governing marine and other insurance c o n t r a c t s o f t h e 1 8 t h c e n t u r y. “[R]elentless centralizer Alexander Hamilton … had the federal republic fixed in his sights but the ‘laws of merchants’ in his back pocket.” (Ibid.,p.16,17)

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“Advertising jingles aside, insurance companies are in business to turn a profit, and to do so, many have developed strategies to reduce claim payments to avoid a drag on their bottom lines.”

As valid today as a quarter millennia ago is Ms. Faber ’s contention that “[i]nsurers’ abilities to inter vene in political and legal affairs both at home and abroad were essential to their continued success.” (Ibid.,p.23) The timetested method for bringing one’s desires to bear upon political and legal affairs?

Lobbying. And insurance lobbying is massive.

According to OpenSecret s, a nonpartisan lobbyist watchdog group, the US insurance indus tr y shelled out $153 million in 2021 to influence lawmakers,. The following year, it upped its game to $160 million.

Lawyers and their business clients depend on the insurance industry to safeguard them from any expected perils of commercial activity, from lawsuits to hail damage and business interruption to employee dishonesty. Your clients invest in insurance to protect their livelihoods, and they have a right to expect returns from the insurance company in response to a notice of the loss.

The claim process—the method for

accessing policy benefits—is central to conducting business successfully. If the insurance company fails to honor the obligations it assumed when it issued your client’s policy, your client’s business suffers over and above the damage triggering the claim in the first place.

And there’s the rub. Adver tising jingles aside, insurance companies are in business to turn a profit, and to do so, many have developed strategies to reduce claim payments to avoid a drag on their bottom lines. When carriers cut those checks to lobbyists or send contributions to legislative, congressional and—in states where judges are elected, like Texas—judicial campaigns, whose interests do you think they seek to protect?

Not only that, but these (mostly) out-of-state carriers circumvent the judicial consequences of laws designed to safeguard insureds by keeping cases out of the courtroom. For example, in the 2022 case of Overstreet v. Allstate, the Texas Supreme Court was primed to rectify a decades-old lower court

ruling incorrectly construing Section 554.002 of the Texas Insurance Code, and level the playing field between claimants and insurers. In that case, the insurance company wielded the power of the purse to settle the claim out of court, depriving the Court of jurisdiction to issue an opinion.

Businesses across the nation are waking up to this friction. Google the phrase “insurance recovery” and see the number of large corporate law firms that incorporate this niche into their practice offerings.

As lawyers representing businesses other than insurance companies, we must be aware of the inherent conflict of interest between our clients and the carriers they rely on. Insurers have a long history of successful efforts reinforcing that reliance while failing to meet their obligations under the policies they issue.

And the financial clout they bring to bear against other businesses’ interests is vast. It will require a continual and collective effort to achieve something like balance in the scales of justice. •

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Mergers and Acquisitions: A View of the Legal Landscape Big law firm mergers are common and advantageous for lawyers, firms, legal professionals and clients. We discuss the most recent mergers from 2022 and 2023.

By Justin Smulison

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e r ge r s a n d a c q u isi t i o n s a re inevitable in all business areas, and that certainly extends to the legal profession.

In October 2023, Fairfax Associates, which t r ack s professional ser vices activities, noted 11 mergers with an effective date occurring in the third quar ter of 2023, bringing the tot al completed for the first three quarters of the year to 41. Fairfax also reported in July that more law firm mergers were completed in the first half of 2023 than in the same period in 2022 and 2021.

But a look beyond just the numbers shows that many of these firms enter into negotiations with a considerable focus on cultural alignment, employee retention and, ultimately, adapting to a changing marketplace. Law firm leaders who oversaw mergers in the past year discusse d what inspire d t heir own activity, how an expanding enterprise coincided with their strategic plans and how the frequency of mergers might be indicative of future trends.

Internal and External Drivers A labama-base d May nard Cooper & Gale and Carolinas-based Nexsen Pruet officially merged in April 2023

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to form Maynard Nexsen, which is now a national firm with more than 550 lawyers. CEO & Managing Shareholder Jeffrey M. Grantham said that a wave of mergers is a normal par t of the industry’s cycle and is driven by the need to meet clients’ expectations.

“Consolidation is the evolution of indus tries across the spec tr um; the legal ser vices industr y is no dif ferent ,” said Grantham, who has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America ® in Alabama in Insurance Law since 2007 and Commercial Litigation since 2013. “You will continue to see it as clients prefer to focus on fewer service providers and law firms seek to expand their service to their clients a c ro s s ma r ke t s a n d e x p er t is e a n d capabilities.”

Streng thening and expanding Holland & Knight’s (H&K) healthcare practice was a key motivation behind i t s a c q u i s i t i o n of Wa l l e r L a n s d e n Dortch & Davis in March 2023. This combination brought H&K’s headcount to 2,000 attorneys worldwide.

“For more than 50 years, ser vice to the healthcare industr y was a v e r y s i g n i f i c a n t p i l l a r o f Wa l l e r ’s legal prac tice,” said H&K Managing

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Partner Steven Sonberg, who has been recognized by Best L aw yers ® since 20 01 for Corporate L aw in Miami, Florida. “ With the combination, h o w e v e r, t h e f i r m a d d e d s e v e r a l healt hc are pr ac tices Waller did not have previously, including FDA regulatory, federal lobbying, antitrust and data security. Likewise, Holland & Knight gained enormous depth in multiple key areas in healthcare, but especially in state healthcare regulatory experience, private equity, M& A and additional experience in healthcare s e r v i c e s . We c a n c o u n s e l c l i e n t s on healthcare mat ters ranging from business, regulator y compliance and real estate to litigation, government enforcement and public policy issues.”

While law firms’ exper tise is complementar y and streng thens it s overall of ferings, in other cases, an “employees are our greatest asset”style philosophy can lead these moves.

Taf t Stettinius & Hollister Chairman and Managing Partner Robert J. Hicks pointed to his firm’s merger with Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss as an instrument for c areer development and future recruitment efforts. “ We want to continue developing

a broader and deeper toolbox for our client s as well as rewarding career oppor tunities for our attorneys and s t a f f,” s a i d H i c k s , w h o h a s b e e n recognized by Best Lawyers since 2007 and is currently recognized for 2024 in Business Organizations, Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law in Indiana. Through the merger, in which Taft retained its name, the firm added 120 attorneys to its roster, boosting the firm to 800 lawyers at the start of 2023.

“The stability of our larger platform has helped establish us as a ‘safer choice’ for the attorneys we recruit and our clients and prospective clients.”

Taf t D e t roi t ’s p a r t n e r-in - c h a r ge Mark G. Cooper also made it a point to empower his new lawyers from Jaffe, many of whom are based in the Motor Cit y, by giving them a voice on the direction of the firm. “ [P r o v i d e] a s e a t a t t h e t a b l e ,” said Cooper, who was named a Best L aw yer s “ L aw yer of t h e Ye ar ” fo r Insurance – Litigation in Detroit in 2021, 2018 and 2016. “Taft Detroit has four seats on the firm’s executive committee, providing representation of perspectives and ideas relative to our local market.”

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“We were the first law firm in all 50 states, and now we are the first with a number in our name.”

Identity and Measuring Success When a new milestone is reached, some might be bold enough to have their achievements woven into their identity. Branding is inexorably linked to every firm’s identity and strategy and is clearly a top priorit y amid a merger or notable change in leadership.

Though this has traditionally led to the addition or removal of names, a new nomenclature has premiered.

The firm, formerly known as Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, rebranded itself in October 2023 as GRSM50 and touts itself as the first in the profession to use a numerical identifier in its name. “ T he rebr and repre s ent s a cle ar reflection of the firm’s forward-thinking and ambitious culture to innovate, do new things and act as entrepreneurially as possible,” said GRSM50’s Firmwide Managing Partner Dion Cominos. “We were the first law firm in all 50 states, and now we are the first with a number in our name.”

Whether this will be the start of a trend remains to be seen; a similarly distinctive milestone may need to be

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achieved in order to effectively tell the firm’s story.

“Just as we are now seeing other firms looking to expand into all 50 states, we expect that some may also attempt to brand themselves in unique and novel ways as well,” Cominos said.

“The law business is not particularly innovative by nature; it’s more of a herd ment alit y where no one ever wants to be first or last. But now that we have broken down these barriers, others are likely to follow.”

Every firm will measure the success of a merger differently. A partial list of metrics will likely be comprised of time, revenues, headcount, cultural alignment, courtroom results and client satisfaction.

“We now have combined capabilities, some of what we each lacked separately, that have allowed us to serve our legacy clients in ways that we each would not have been capable of previously,” Grantham said. “We are actually tracking this and are amazed at how significant it is just in these early stages. We are repeatedly hearing from clients who are not just suppor tive, but enthusiastic, about the merger and bringing opportunities to us that were going elsewhere previously.”

Exploring Options in 2024 and Beyond Fairfax warned in July that despite t h e h i g h i n t e r e s t i n m e r g e r s , “a s more firms explore larger and more complicated combinations, the typical timeframe for completing a combination is lengthening, and the likelihood of hitting a roadblock in these types of combinations is greater.”

With that in mind, and considering that 2023 has proven to be a landmark ye a r in t h e w ay of m e r ge r s , f ir m s considering their next move might look to the past 12 months for inspiration to at least pursue some opportunities.

“Law firms are beginning to see that scale gives considerable advantages, espe cially if it ’s done in a focuse d way that builds on existing strengths,” Sonberg said. “Simply put, scale allows a firm to provide the talent, technology and other resources necessary for its p rofe s sionals to b e comp et it i ve in today’s legal market. This consolidation matches what we see in many industries.

There is a significant value proposition for clients to hire a firm that knows them well and can handle almost any emergent need.” •

Cultural Significance

Each lawyer interviewed emphasized the importance of a cultural match or balance to facilitate any law firm combination.

They shared some additional words of wisdom— and caution—on this pillar of success: Jeffrey M. Grantham, Maynard Nexsen:

Take the time to put in the work ahead of time to truly understand each other before you move forward—and it all starts with culture.

Getting to know each other and if there is a cultural fit. If so, move ahead. If not, move on. The more people know each other and understand each other ahead of a merger, the better. We have actually had some of our partners who have been through previous law firm mergers at other firms, praise our pre-merger collaboration and interaction and tell us how much it makes a difference in the post -merger execution.

Mark G. Cooper, Taft Stettinius & Hollister:

As with any merger, there are many moving parts that need to come together in unison. The teams across all operational areas had a hand in ensuring a relatively seamless transition. It was a true testament of teamwork and our cultural fit.

Steven Sonberg, Holland & Knight:

It is important that a culture have the ability to adjust and modify.

It is important to amalgamate some aspects of both firms in a combination. No two cultures are exactly alike and no two histories are exactly the same. Bringing together two or more firms will necessarily involve the creation of some new and hopefully improved culture. If this element is overlooked, it can be disastrous.

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Admiralty & Maritime Law

Clyde & Co Advertising Law

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR

2024

Antitrust Law

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

Appellate Practice

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Banking and Finance Law

McGuireWoods

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est Law Firms® has awarded “Law Firm of the Year” honors to a single firm across the 75 practice areas recognized in the 2024 rankings. These firms have demonstrated exceptional performance in our research, a combination of client and professional references, reviews by other attorneys within the same practice area, the firm’s collective contribution to each practice area and input received by the industry’s firm leaders.

“Our methodology is comprehensive, rigorous and historically proven,” says CEO of Best Lawyers® Phillip Greer. “Twelve years since its inaugural release, ‘Law Firm of the Year’ awards are regarded by the legal industry as the most reputable indicator of firm excellence. Our extensive process guarantees this designation is bestowed upon only the best legal practices.”

Several of these firms have locations in Texas and have received Texas-specific metropolitan Tier 1 rankings. These rankings at a metropolitan level validate the firm’s awards at a national level and contribute to a firm’s overall honors as “Law Firm of the Year” recipients. This section includes all U.S. “Law Firm of the Year” awards for 2024.

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

White & Case

Biotechnology Law

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr

Commercial Litigation

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan

Communications Law

Davis Wright Tremaine

Construction Law

Peckar & Abramson

Copyright Law

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp

Corporate Law

K&L Gates

Criminal Defense: White-Collar

Covington & Burling Derivatives and Futures Law

Sullivan & Cromwell Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law

Proskauer Rose

Employment Law - Management

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart

Energy Law

Vinson & Elkins

Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures & Television

Pryor Cashman

Entertainment Law - Music

Loeb & Loeb

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“Law Firm of the Year”

HONOREES Environmental Law

Land Use & Zoning Law

Litigation - Real Estate

Equipment Finance Law

Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law

Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC,

Beveridge & Diamond Vedder Price

FDA Law

Cox, Castle & Nicholson Goodwin

Litigation - Antitrust

Sidley Austin

Jones Day

Financial Services Regulation Law

Litigation - Banking & Finance

Morrison & Foerster Franchise Law

Quarles & Brady Health Care Law

McDermott Will & Emery

Immigration Law

Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy Information Technology Law

Greenberg Traurig

Sullivan & Cromwell

Litigation - Bankruptcy

Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones

Litigation - Construction

Smith, Currie & Hancock

Litigation - Environmental

Arnold & Porter Litigation - ERISA

Seyfarth Shaw

Litigation - First Amendment

Insurance Law

Davis Wright Tremaine

International Arbitration - Commercial

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton

Reed Smith

Arnold & Porter

International Arbitration - Governmental

White & Case

International Trade and Finance Law

Mayer Brown

Labor Law - Management

Littler

Litigation - Intellectual Property

Litigation - Labor & Employment

Fisher Phillips

Litigation - Mergers & Acquisitions

Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann Litigation - Patent

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan

Akerman

Telecom, Energy)

Ropes & Gray Litigation - Securities

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Litigation and Controversy - Tax

Eversheds Sutherland (US) Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants

Shook, Hardy & Bacon

Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs

The Lanier Law Firm Media Law

Ballard Spahr

Mergers & Acquisitions Law

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Mining Law

Fennemore Mutual Funds Law

Dechert

Native American Law

Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry Natural Resources Law

Holland & Hart

Oil & Gas Law

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Patent Law

Securities / Capital Markets Law

Fish & Richardson

Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law

Kirkland & Ellis

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Sidley Austin

Project Finance Law

Alston & Bird

Kutak Rock

Winston & Strawn

Railroad Law

Real Estate Law

Greenberg Traurig

Holland & Knight

Trusts & Estates Law

Sports Law

Landman Corsi Ballaine & Ford

Trademark Law

Transportation Law

Securitization and Structured Finance Law

Public Finance Law

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt Katten

Securities Regulation

Latham & Watkins

Timber Law

McDermott Will & Emery

Venture Capital Law

Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian

Tax Law

Baker McKenzie Technology Law

Perkins Coie

Gunderson Dettmer represents more than 2,500 venture-backed companies and over 500 of the world’s top venture capital and growth equity firms, including thousands of their underlying funds.

For venture-backed companies, the firm provides guidance at every stage in their lifecycle, from launch through IPO and beyond, becoming extensions of their management teams as they prepare for their next stage of growth.

Gunderson Dettmer has been ranked as the most active law firm for venture capital financings globally

by PitchBook every year of its League Tables – 2014 – 2022. With more than 1600 venture and growth equity deals to our credit in 2022, we were again ranked “most active law firm globally” in PitchBook’s Global League Tables. The Texas office was ranked as a TopTier Firm in The Legal 500 United States 2023 Guide for M&A Corporate/Commercial.

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Wes was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in Mergers & Acquisitions Law in 2024.

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SUPREME COURT RULING ON TEXAS SOCIAL MEDIA LAWS

By Gregory Sirico

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AN ERA DOMINATED BY SOCIAL MEDIA, the intersection of free speech, technology and the law has become an intricate and constantly evolving landscape. The U.S. Supreme Court found itself at the center of this intersection, recently issuing pivotal rulings with far-reaching legal implications for how to properly navigate through our digital realm. Originating from Florida and now in Texas, a case has reignited discussions on the delicate balance between individual expression and the regulation of online spaces.

The focal point of the case revolves around a challenge to legislation in Florida and Texas, designed to regulate content moderation on social media platforms. Both states enacted laws aiming to address what they perceived as biased content moderation practices by tech giants. These laws imposed penalties on platforms banning political candidates, resulting in a clash between state efforts to regulate online spaces and platforms’ assertions of their rights to moderate content.

In a closely watched decision, the Supreme Court deemed the Texas law unconstitutional, citing the First Amendment and the Commerce Clause. The majority opinion asserted that these laws violated the free speech rights of social media platforms and their users as they sought to control and manipulate content moderation policies. Justice Clarence Thomas, in a concurring opinion, expressed concerns about the considerable power wielded by social media platforms in curating and controlling public discourse. While agreeing with the majority’s decision on the law’s unconstitutionality, he raised broader questions about private entities having such immense influence over public discourse.

The Supreme Court’s ruling underscores the delicate balance between protecting free speech and regulating online spaces. Social media platforms have evolved into the modern public square, where individuals engage in discussions, express views and participate in the democratic process. The debate centralizes on who controls this virtual public space and the rules governing it. Supporters of the Supreme Court’s decision argue that private entities should be free to moderate content on their platforms without government interference. They contend that restricting content moderation could lead to government overreach and undermine platforms’ ability to enforce community standards and prevent the spread of harmful or false information.

Critics argue that social media platforms have become de facto public utilities and should be subject to certain regulations to ensure fair and unbiased content

moderation. Concerns revolve around the concentration of power in the hands of a few tech companies, potentially influencing public discourse and stifling dissenting voices. Justice Thomas’s concurring opinion adds another layer to the debate, raising questions about the unprecedented control social media platforms have over public discourse and the potential impact on democratic values. While agreeing with the majority in striking down specific laws in Florida and Texas, he advocates for a reexamination of the legal framework surrounding the power dynamics of these platforms.

The Supreme Court’s ruling does not mark the end of the ongoing conversation about the regulation of social media. As technology advances and digital platforms play an increasingly prominent role in shaping public opinion, lawmakers and the judiciary will encounter new challenges in adapting legal frameworks to the digital age.

Social media platforms have evolved into the modern public square, where individuals engage in discussions, express views and participate in the democratic process.

One potential approach to addressing these challenges is the development of comprehensive federal legislation outlining the rights and responsibilities of both social media platforms and users. Such legislation could provide a clear and consistent framework for content moderation while respecting the principles of free speech. Additionally, there may be a need for increased transparency and accountability from social media platforms regarding their content moderation policies.

Users and the public at large should have a better understanding of how decisions are made regarding what content is allowed or removed, promoting trust and alleviating concerns about bias in content moderation.

The recent Supreme Court rulings on social media regulation have highlighted the complexities and nuances of free speech in the digital age. While the specific laws in Florida and Texas were deemed unconstitutional, broader issues surrounding the regulation of online spaces persist. As society grapples with the challenges posed by the digital era, a thoughtful and nuanced approach to balancing free speech and responsible content moderation will be essential for shaping the future of our online public square. bestlawfirms.com

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2024

National Rankings in Texas by Practice Area

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HE LAW FIRMS IN TEXAS that received national rankings in the 2024 edition of Best Law Firms ® are featured below. These firms were eligible for national rankings because they received a coinciding metropolitan ranking in at least one of their Texas office locations. Across all tiers, a total of 245 Texas firms received national rankings in 65 practice areas.

Visit bestlawfirms.com to view nationally ranked firms in all tiers.

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Admiralty and Maritime Law Arnold & Itkin LLP ❷ Blank Rome LLP ❶ Brown Sims ❷

Antitrust Law

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❸ Holland & Knight LLP ❸ Jones Day ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan ❷ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Susman Godfrey L.L.P. ❸ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❷ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Appellate Practice

Alexander Dubose & Jefferson LLP ❶ Alice Oliver-Parrott, P.C. ❸ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Beck Redden LLP ❷ Bennett & Secrest, PLLC ❷ Bracewell LLP ❶ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Cokinos Young, P.C. ❷ Copeland & Rice LLP ❸ Frost Brown Todd LLP ❸ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❸ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP ❷ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Hogan & Hogan LLP ❷ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❸ Husch Blackwell LLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❸ Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❷ Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❷

Banking and Finance Law

Alston & Bird LLP ❶ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❷ Blank Rome LLP ❶ Bracewell LLP ❷ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Dickinson Wright PLLC ❷ Dorsey & Whitney LLP ❷ Duane Morris LLP ❷ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❸ Foley & Lardner LLP ❸ Frost Brown Todd LLP ❷ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Husch Blackwell LLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Jones Day ❶ Latham & Watkins LLP ❶ Liskow & Lewis ❷ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Mayer Brown ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷ O’Melveny & Myers ❶ Paul Hastings LLP ❶ Polsinelli PC ❶ Porter Hedges LLP ❸ Reed Smith LLP ❷ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❷ Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP ❷ White & Case LLP ❶ Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP ❶ Winstead PC ❷ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law Akerman LLP ❶

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❶

Bracewell LLP ❸ Byman & Associates PLLC ❸ Clark Hill PLC ❸ Diamond McCarthy LLP ❷ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❷ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Fox Rothschild LLP ❶ Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❷ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Husch Blackwell LLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Jones Day ❶ Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❸ Katten ❶ Law Office of Tom Kirkendall ❸ Mayer Brown ❶ McDermott Will & Emery ❶ McGuireWoods LLP ❶ McKool Smith PC ❷ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Okin Adams LLP ❸ O’Melveny & Myers ❶ Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP ❶ Perkins Coie LLP ❶ Polsinelli PC ❶ Porter Hedges LLP ❸ Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan ❶ Reed Smith LLP ❶ Reid Collins & Tsai LLP ❸ S. Mayer Law, PLLC ❸ Shearman & Sterling LLP ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Spencer Fane LLP ❷ Thompson Coburn LLP ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP ❶ Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP ❶

Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice McDermott Will & Emery ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❸

Commercial Litigation Adams and Reese LLP ❶ Ajamie LLP ❸ Akerman LLP ❶ Alston & Bird LLP ❶ Arnold & Porter ❶ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Baker McKenzie LLP ❶ Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC ❶ Barnes & Thornburg LLP ❶ Beck Redden LLP ❷ Berg & Androphy ❶ Blank Rome LLP ❶ Bracewell LLP ❶ Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❶ Butler Snow LLP ❷ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Dentons U.S. LLP ❶ Dickinson Wright PLLC ❶ DLA Piper ❶

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Dorsey & Whitney LLP ❶ Duane Morris LLP ❶ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❶ Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP ❶ Fletcher Held ❷ Fogler, Brar, O’Neil & Gray LLP ❸ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Frost Brown Todd LLP ❷ Gibbs & Bruns LLP ❷ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Hall Maines Lugrin, P.C. ❷ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Husch Blackwell LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸ Jones Day ❶ K&L Gates LLP ❶ Katten ❶ Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❶ King & Spalding LLP ❶ Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶ Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP ❸ Liskow & Lewis ❷ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Mark K. Glasser ❸ Mayer Brown ❶ McGuireWoods LLP ❶ McKool Smith PC ❷ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. ❷ O’Melveny & Myers ❶ Otteson Shapiro LLP ❸ Phelps Dunbar LLP ❷ Pillsbury ❶ Polsinelli PC ❶ Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan ❶ Reed Smith LLP ❶ Reynolds Frizzell LLP ❷ Shearman & Sterling LLP ❷ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Spencer Fane LLP ❶ Squire Patton Boggs ❶ Steptoe & Johnson PLLC ❸ Susman Godfrey L.L.P. ❶ Thompson Coburn LLP ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP ❶ Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP ❶ Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP ❷ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶ Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP ❶ Yetter Coleman LLP ❷

Construction Law Adams and Reese LLP ❶ Andrews Myers, P.C. ❷ Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❶

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Burwell Nebout Trial Lawyers ❸ Chaffe McCall, L.L.P. ❶ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Doyle LLP ❷ Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP ❷ Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith ❷ Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❶ HFW ❷ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Liskow & Lewis ❶ Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard ❷ Meyer Orlando LLC ❸ Phelps Dunbar LLP ❶ Richard Gorman Law ❸ Royston Rayzor ❷ SBSB Eastham PLLC ❶ Schechter, Shaffer & Harris, LLP – Accident & Injury Attorneys ❷ Stevenson & Murray ❸ Trahan Kornegay Partners LLP ❸ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❸ Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP ❷

Locke Lord LLP ❶ Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom ❷ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷ Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❶ Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson, LLP ❸ Parenti Law PLLC ❸ Porter Hedges LLP ❸ Reed Smith LLP ❶ Roach Newton, LLP ❷ Rusty Hardin & Associates, LLP ❷ Schiffer Hicks Johnson PLLC ❸ Schneider & McKinney, P.C. ❸ The Lanier Law Firm ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❷ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶ Wright Close & Barger, LLP ❷ Yetter Coleman LLP ❷ Zimmermann & Zimmermann, PLLC ❷

National Rankings

Cannon Law Firm PLLC ❸ Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❶ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Coats Rose, P.C. ❷ Cokinos Young, P.C. ❷ Coulter, P.C. ❸ Cozen O’Connor ❶ Duane Morris LLP ❶ Gibbs & Bruns LLP ❸ Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❶ Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❸ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jones Walker LLP ❶ Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❸ Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❶ King & Spalding LLP ❶ Litchfield Cavo LLP ❸ Manela Law Firm ❷ Mayer Brown ❸ McCormick Landry Munoz, PLLC ❸ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷ Peckar & Abramson, P.C. ❶ Pillsbury ❶ Porter Hedges LLP ❷ Richard P. Flake PLLC ❷ Ryman ADR ❸ Steptoe & Johnson PLLC ❸ West Mermis, PLLC ❸ Winstead PC ❷

Copyright Law

Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Corporate Law

Akerman LLP ❶ Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❷ Alston & Bird LLP ❶ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Baker McKenzie LLP ❷ BakerHostetler ❶ Blank Rome LLP ❶ Bracewell LLP ❷ Clark Hill PLC ❷ Dickinson Wright PLLC ❷ DLA Piper ❶ Dorsey & Whitney LLP ❷ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❷ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Frost Brown Todd LLP ❷ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Jones Day ❶ K&L Gates LLP ❶ Katten ❶ Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❶ King & Spalding LLP ❶ Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶ Latham & Watkins LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Mayer Brown ❶

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McDermott Will & Emery ❶ McGuireWoods LLP ❶ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ O’Melveny & Myers ❷ Porter Hedges LLP ❸ Reed Smith LLP ❶ Seyfarth Shaw LLP ❷ Shearman & Sterling LLP ❶ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP ❶ Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP ❶ Spencer Fane LLP ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ White & Case LLP ❶ Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP ❶ Winstead PC ❸ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Criminal Defense: White-Collar

Bracewell LLP ❶ Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❷ Clark Hill PLC ❷ DLA Piper ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jones Day ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷ O’Melveny & Myers ❶ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Derivatives and Futures Law

Locke Lord LLP ❷ Paul Hastings LLP ❷ Reed Smith LLP ❷ Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP ❸

Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❸ BakerHostetler ❷ Conner & Winters, LLP ❷ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❸ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❷ Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❸ McDermott Will & Emery ❶ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❸ Polsinelli PC ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❸

Employment Law - Management

Baker McKenzie LLP ❶ BakerHostetler ❶ Blank Rome LLP ❶ Bracewell LLP ❸ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP ❶

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Cozen O’Connor ❶ Dentons U.S. LLP ❷ DLA Piper ❷ Fisher Phillips LLP ❶ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Husch Blackwell LLP ❶ Jackson Lewis P.C. ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸ Jones Day ❶ Littler ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷ Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. ❶ Perkins Coie LLP ❶ Polsinelli PC ❷ Seyfarth Shaw LLP ❶ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❶ Spencer Fane LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❷ Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP ❷

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP ❶ Yetter Coleman LLP ❸

Energy Law

Financial Services Regulation Law

Akerman LLP ❸ Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❷ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ BakerHostetler ❶ Beck Redden LLP ❸ Bracewell LLP ❶ Caldwell Boudreaux Lefler PLLC ❸ Clark Hill PLC ❷ Dentons U.S. LLP ❶ Duane Morris LLP ❶ Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP ❶ Frost Brown Todd LLP ❸ Gibbs & Bruns LLP ❸ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❸ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸ Jones Day ❶ K&L Gates LLP ❶ King & Spalding LLP ❷ Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❷ Liskow & Lewis ❷ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Mark K. Glasser ❸ Mayer Brown ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷ Oaks, Hartline & Daly, LLP ❸ O’Melveny & Myers ❸ Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❶ Pillsbury ❶ Porter Hedges LLP ❸ Reed Smith LLP ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❸ White & Case LLP ❶

Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television Winston & Strawn LLP ❷

Environmental Law

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Beveridge & Diamond PC ❶ Bracewell LLP ❶ Crain Caton & James A Professional Corporation ❸ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❸ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Hogan Lovells US LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸ Jones Walker LLP ❷ K&L Gates LLP ❶ Kelley Drye & Warren LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❷ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Pillsbury ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Alston & Bird LLP ❶ Otteson Shapiro LLP ❸

Franchise Law

Baker McKenzie LLP ❸ Polsinelli PC ❷

Health Care Law

BakerHostetler ❶ Bracewell LLP ❸ Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❸ Duane Morris LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C. ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Husch Blackwell LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Jones Day ❶ K&L Gates LLP ❶ Katten ❶ King & Spalding LLP ❶ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Polsinelli PC ❶ Reed Smith LLP ❶

Immigration Law

BAL LLP ❶ Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❸ Foster LLP ❷ Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Nancy A. Falgout, P.C. ❸ Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. ❶ Suárez Candler Law, PLLC ❸

Information Technology Law

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❷ Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❶ Mayer Brown ❶ McDermott Will & Emery ❷ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❷ Perkins Coie LLP ❶

Insurance Law

International Arbitration - Commercial Baker Botts L.L.P. ❷ King & Spalding LLP ❶ Law Offices of Platt Davis ❸ Mayer Brown ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❸ Pillsbury ❶ Reed Smith LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❷

International Arbitration Governmental

GLipe Law ❸ King & Spalding LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷ Price Arbitration PLLC ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❷

International Trade and Finance Law

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❶

Reed Smith LLP ❷

Labor Law - Management Litigation - Bankruptcy Blank Rome LLP ❶ Bracewell LLP ❸ Bruckner Burch PLLC ❸ Cozen O’Connor ❶ Fisher Phillips LLP ❶ Foley & Lardner LLP ❷ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Husch Blackwell LLP ❷ Jackson Lewis P.C. ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Littler ❶ Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom ❸ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❸ Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. ❶ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❷

Land Use and Zoning Law

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Husch Blackwell LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❸ Wilson Cribbs and Goren, PC ❷

Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law Baker Botts L.L.P. ❷ Foley & Lardner LLP ❷ Latham & Watkins LLP ❷ Mayer Brown ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❸ Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP ❶ Winstead PC ❸ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Litigation - Antitrust Beck Redden LLP ❸

Berg & Androphy ❷ Fogler, Brar, O’Neil & Gray LLP ❸ Gibbs & Bruns LLP ❸ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❸ Jones Day ❶ Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❷ Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan ❷ Shearman & Sterling LLP ❸ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Susman Godfrey L.L.P. ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Yetter Coleman LLP ❸

Litigation - Banking and Finance

Greenberg Traurig ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ J. Scott Sheehan, P.C. ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸ McKool Smith PC ❸ Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❶ Polsinelli PC ❷

Akerman LLP ❶ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Fox Rothschild LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❸ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ K&L Gates LLP ❷ Katten ❶ McDermott Will & Emery ❷ McGuireWoods LLP ❷ McKool Smith PC ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ O’Melveny & Myers ❶ Perkins Coie LLP ❶ Polsinelli PC ❷ Porter Hedges LLP ❸ Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan ❶ Reed Smith LLP ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Thompson Coburn LLP ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❷

Litigation - Construction Adams and Reese LLP ❶ Andrews Myers, P.C. ❷ Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❶ Cannon Law Firm PLLC ❷ Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❶ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Coats Rose, P.C. ❸ Cokinos Young, P.C. ❶ Coulter, P.C. ❸ Dickinson Wright PLLC ❷ Duane Morris LLP ❶ Fisk Attorneys, P.C. ❸ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Gibbs & Bruns LLP ❷ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Hartline Barger LLP ❷ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸ Jones Walker LLP ❶ Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❷ Miller Knauff Law Firm ❸ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❸ Peckar & Abramson, P.C. ❶ Pillsbury ❶ Reynolds Frizzell LLP ❷ Richard P. Flake PLLC ❷ Ryman ADR ❸ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❷ Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❶ West Mermis, PLLC ❷ Winstead PC ❷

Litigation Environmental Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Baker Wotring LLP ❸ Beck Redden LLP ❷

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Beveridge & Diamond PC ❶ Bracewell LLP ❶ Copeland & Rice LLP ❷ Crain Caton & James A Professional Corporation ❷ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Hogan Lovells US LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Husch Blackwell LLP ❸ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸ Jones Walker LLP ❷ King & Spalding LLP ❶ Kirk Law Firm ❸ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Pillsbury ❶ Sharon M. Mattox, PLLC ❷ Susman Godfrey L.L.P. ❷ The Sher Law Firm PLLC ❸ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❸ Winston & Strawn LLP ❷

Litigation - ERISA

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❷ Finston Friedman Fisher Law Group, LLP ❸ Locke Lord LLP ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷ Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❷

Litigation - First Amendment

Carter Arnett, PLLC ❸ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Kean Miller LLP ❶ Yetter Coleman LLP ❷

Litigation - Intellectual Property

Adams and Reese LLP ❸ Akerman LLP ❶ Alston & Bird LLP ❶ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Baker McKenzie LLP ❸ Baker Williams Matthiesen LLP ❸ BakerHostetler ❶ Barnes & Thornburg LLP ❶ Beck Redden LLP ❸ Blank Rome LLP ❸ Bracewell LLP ❸ Dechert LLP ❶ Dickinson Wright PLLC ❸ DLA Piper ❶ Duane Morris LLP ❶ Fish & Richardson P.C. ❶ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. ❸ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Heim, Payne & Chorush LLP ❸ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Jones Day ❶ K&L Gates LLP ❶ King & Spalding LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶

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Akerman LLP ❷ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Cozen O’Connor ❶ DLA Piper ❶ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❷ Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP ❶ Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❸ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jones Day ❶ Kennedys ❸ Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP ❶ Litchfield Cavo LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom ❸ Mayer Brown ❶ Maynard Nexsen PC ❸ McKool Smith PC ❸ Nicolaides Fink Thorpe Michaelides Sullivan LLP ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Phelps Dunbar LLP ❶ Pillsbury ❶ Reed Smith LLP ❶ Roach Newton, LLP ❸ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❷ Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP ❷ Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP ❶ Zelle LLP ❸

Sidley Austin LLP ❶

McDermott Will & Emery ❶ McGuireWoods LLP ❷ McKool Smith PC ❷ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶ Morrison & Foerster ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ O’Melveny & Myers ❶ Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❶ Perkins Coie LLP ❶ Polsinelli PC ❶ Reed Smith LLP ❶ Richard L. Stanley ❸ Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. ❸ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❶ Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Steele Law Group, PLLC ❸ Susman Godfrey L.L.P. ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❸ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶ Yetter Coleman LLP ❸

National Rankings

Litigation - Labor and Employment

Baker McKenzie LLP ❷ BakerHostetler ❶ Blank Rome LLP ❷ Bracewell LLP ❸ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP ❶ Dentons U.S. LLP ❶ Fisher Phillips LLP ❶ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Jackson Lewis P.C. ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Jones Day ❶ Littler ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶ McGuireWoods LLP ❶ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❸ Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. ❶ Perkins Coie LLP ❶ Polsinelli PC ❶ Reed Smith LLP ❷ Seyfarth Shaw LLP ❶ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❶ Spencer Fane LLP ❶

Litigation - Mergers and Acquisitions Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Fletcher Held ❷ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❸ Holland & Knight LLP ❸ K&L Gates LLP ❸ Mark K. Glasser ❷ McKool Smith PC ❸ Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan ❶ Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP ❶

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Litigation - Patent

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❶ Alston & Bird LLP ❷ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Barnes & Thornburg LLP ❶ Beck Redden LLP ❸ Blank Rome LLP ❷ Boulware & Valoir ❸ Bracewell LLP ❸ DLA Piper ❶ Duane Morris LLP ❶ Fish & Richardson P.C. ❶ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. ❸ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Heim, Payne & Chorush LLP ❸ Holland & Knight LLP ❷ Husch Blackwell LLP ❸ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸ Jones Day ❶ K&L Gates LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❷ McAughan Deaver, PLLC ❸ McDermott Will & Emery ❶ McGuireWoods LLP ❶ McKool Smith PC ❶ Morrison & Foerster ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ O’Melveny & Myers ❶ Patterson & Sheridan, LLP ❸ Perkins Coie LLP ❶ Pillsbury ❶ Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan ❶ Reed Smith LLP ❶ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❶ Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Smyser Kaplan & Veselka, L.L.P. ❸ Susman Godfrey L.L.P. ❶ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶ Yetter Coleman LLP ❸

Litigation - Real Estate Baker Botts L.L.P. ❸ Berg & Androphy ❸ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❷ Figari + Davenport, LLP ❸ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Kessler Collins, P.C. ❸ Koning Rubarts LLP ❸ Lonny D. Morrison ❸ Winstead PC ❸

Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy) Bracewell LLP ❶ Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❸ Fletcher Held ❸ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷ Locke Lord LLP ❸ O’Melveny & Myers ❸ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❸ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

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Litigation - Securities

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❷ Berg & Androphy ❷ Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❸ Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❸ Fletcher Held ❸ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Gibbs & Bruns LLP ❸ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Hall Maines Lugrin, P.C. ❸ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❸ Holland & Knight LLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸ King & Spalding LLP ❶ Mark K. Glasser ❸ McKool Smith PC ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ O’Melveny & Myers ❶ Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❶ Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan ❶ Reynolds Frizzell LLP ❸ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❷ Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❸

Litigation and Controversy - Tax

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❶ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❸ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ John A. Townsend ❷ Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶ Mayer Brown ❶ Meadows, Collier, Reed, Cousins, Crouch & Ungerman, L.L.P. ❸ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❷ Winstead PC ❸

Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions Defendants

Adams and Reese LLP ❶ Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❶ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❷ Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC ❶ Bracewell LLP ❷ Copeland & Rice LLP ❷ Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP ❶ Forman Watkins & Krutz LLP ❶ Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❶ King & Spalding LLP ❶ Lathrop GPM LLP ❸ Law Office of Kenneth Tekell Sr. PLLC ❷ Liskow & Lewis ❷ Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC ❶ MehaffyWeber, P.C. ❷ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. ❶ Thompson Coburn LLP ❷ Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❷ Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP ❶ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs

Arnold & Itkin LLP ❷ Blizzard Greenberg, PLLC ❸ Heard Merman, PLLC ❸ Laminack Pirtle & Martines, L.L.P. ❷ Pulaski Kherkher, PLLC ❷ The Lanier Law Firm ❶ Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❸ Williams Hart, LLP ❷

Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❸ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ BoyarMiller ❸ Clark Hill PLC ❸ Dentons U.S. LLP ❷ Dickinson Wright PLLC ❸ Dorsey & Whitney LLP ❷ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❸ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❷ Jones Day ❶ K&L Gates LLP ❶ Katten ❸ Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶ Latham & Watkins LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❷ McDermott Will & Emery ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ O’Melveny & Myers ❷ Polsinelli PC ❶ Shearman & Sterling LLP ❶ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❷ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP ❶ White & Case LLP ❶ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Natural Resources Law

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ BakerHostetler ❶ Beck Redden LLP ❶ Bracewell LLP ❶ Caldwell Boudreaux Lefler PLLC ❶ Egan Nelson LLP ❸ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❸ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Latham & Watkins LLP ❶ Law Office of Jerry W. Ross ❷ McCollam Law Firm, PC ❷ McDermott Will & Emery ❷ Pierce & O’Neill, LLP ❶

Pillsbury ❷

Oil and Gas Law

Patent Law

Akerman LLP ❸ Barnes & Thornburg LLP ❶ Blank Rome LLP ❶ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❸ Fish & Richardson P.C. ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. ❸ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ K&L Gates LLP ❶ McDermott Will & Emery ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Perkins Coie LLP ❶ Polsinelli PC ❶ Reed Smith LLP ❸ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❶ Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP ❷ Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP ❶

Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law Baker Botts L.L.P. ❸ Winston & Strawn LLP ❷

Project Finance Law Baker Botts L.L.P. ❷ Bracewell LLP ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Public Finance Law

Bracewell LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶ McCall, Parkhurst & Horton L.L.P. ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❶

Railroad Law

Brown, Proctor & Howell, L.L.P. ❸ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸ Jones Granger ❷ McLeod, Alexander, Powel, & Apffel, PC ❶ The Wolf Law Firm P.C. ❸

Real Estate Law

Akerman LLP ❶ Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❸ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❸ BakerHostetler ❶ Bracewell LLP ❸ Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❷ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Coats Rose, P.C. ❸ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❶ FisherBroyles, LLP ❶ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Frost Brown Todd LLP ❷ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Husch Blackwell LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸ Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❷ King & Spalding LLP ❶ Liskow & Lewis ❷ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Mayer Brown ❶ Maynard Nexsen PC ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Pillsbury ❶ Reed Smith LLP ❶ Seyfarth Shaw LLP ❶ Spencer Fane LLP ❶ Steptoe & Johnson PLLC ❸ Stinson LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP ❶ White & Case LLP ❶ Winstead PC ❷ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Securities / Capital Markets Law Akerman LLP ❷ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ BakerHostetler ❶ BoyarMiller ❸ Bracewell LLP ❶

DLA Piper ❶ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❸ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❸ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Jones Day ❶ Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶ Latham & Watkins LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❷ Mayer Brown ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷ Porter Hedges LLP ❷ SchaeperPC ❸ Shearman & Sterling LLP ❷ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati ❶ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Securities Regulation

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Bracewell LLP ❷ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❸ Shearman & Sterling LLP ❸

Securitization and Structured Finance Law Alston & Bird LLP ❶ Bracewell LLP ❷ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❷ K&L Gates LLP ❶ Mayer Brown ❶ Winston & Strawn LLP ❸

Sports Law

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸

Tax Law

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❶ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Baker McKenzie LLP ❶ BakerHostetler ❶ Bracewell LLP ❷ Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❶ Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP ❷ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❷ Husch Blackwell LLP ❶ K&L Gates LLP ❶ Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶ Latham & Watkins LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶ McDermott Will & Emery ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ O’Melveny & Myers ❷ Polsinelli PC ❸ Reed Smith LLP ❶ Shearman & Sterling LLP ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Spencer Fane LLP ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

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Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP ❶ Winstead PC ❸ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Technology Law

Bracewell LLP ❷ FisherBroyles, LLP ❸ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❸ Holland & Knight LLP ❷ Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❶ King & Fisher, PLLC ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷ Pillsbury ❸ Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP ❶

Trademark Law

Arnold & Saunders, L.L.P. ❸ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❷ Boulware & Valoir ❷ Bracewell LLP ❸ Dickinson Wright PLLC ❷ Elliott & Polasek, PLLC ❸ Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. ❷ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Heptig Law Group, Ltd. ❸ Hitchcock Evert LLP ❸ Holland & Knight LLP ❷ K&L Gates LLP ❶ King & Spalding LLP ❶ McAughan Deaver, PLLC ❷ McDermott Will & Emery ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Richard Law Group ❸ Winstead PC ❸

Transportation Law

Brown, Proctor & Howell, L.L.P. ❸ Cantey Hanger LLP ❸ Chaffe McCall, L.L.P. ❸ Doyle LLP ❷ HFW ❷ Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP ❸ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❷

Trusts and Estates

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❸ Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❷ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❸ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❸ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❸ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸ Locke Lord LLP ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Perkins Coie LLP ❶ Winstead PC ❸

Venture Capital Law Baker Botts L.L.P. ❷ BoyarMiller ❸ Latham & Watkins LLP ❶ Mayer Brown ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

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National Rankings

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❷ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Bracewell LLP ❶ Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❸ Crady Jewett McCulley & Houren, LLP ❷ Everard Marseglia, Jr., Arbitrator, Attorney, Counselor, Mediator ❷ Foley & Lardner LLP ❷ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❷ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Hicks Thomas LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Jones Day ❷ Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❷ Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❸ Latham & Watkins LLP ❶ Liskow & Lewis ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Mayer Brown ❷ McCollam Law Firm, PC ❷ McDermott Will & Emery ❸ McGinnis Lochridge ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❸ Petry, Rosie & Sinex, Attorneys at Law ❷ Pierce & O’Neill, LLP ❶ Porter Hedges LLP ❷ Reed Smith LLP ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Winston & Strawn LLP ❷

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP ❸

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Metro Rankings in Texas

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MONG ALL FIRMS THAT WERE ELIGIBLE for 2024 Best Law Firms® consideration in Texas, 1,481 firms received at least one metropolitan ranking in 2024 in Texas. The rankings honor law firms of varying sizes and scopes, across nine metropolitan regions and 113 practice areas.

Regional results in all tiers are available online at bestlawfirms.com.

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Austin Administrative / Regulatory Law Allensworth ❸

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta LLP ❶ Butler Snow LLP ❷ Cantilo & Bennett, L.L.P. ❷ Carl S. Richie Jr. Attorney at Law ❶ Cobb & Counsel PLLC ❷ Coffin Renner LLP ❶ Duggins Wren Mann & Romero, LLP ❶ Enoch Kever PLLC ❶ Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP ❶ Ewell, Brown, Blanke & Knight LLP ❷ Foley & Lardner LLP ❸

Karl Bayer ❶

Barry Deacon Law ❸

Lakeside Mediation Center ❷

Boulette Golden & Marin L.L.P. ❷

Tom Collins ❶

Bracewell LLP ❶

Banking and Finance Law Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Brophy & Devaney, PLLC ❸ Burgess Law P.C. ❶ BurnettTurner ❶

Dickinson Wright PLLC ❸

Butler Snow LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Byrd Davis Alden & Henrichson, LLP ❶

Jay Hailey PLLC ❷

Cain & Skarnulis PLLC ❷

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶

Cobb & Counsel PLLC ❷

Larry E. Temple ❶

Davis, Gerald & Cremer P.C. ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❷

Dickinson Wright PLLC ❷

McGinnis Lochridge ❶

Donna Brown, P.C. ❸

Michael A. Wren ❷

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Duane Morris LLP ❷ DuBois Bryant & Campbell LLP ❶ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❷

Copyright Law

Holland & Knight LLP ❸ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Matheson Keys & Kordzik PLLC ❶ Munck Wilson Mandala ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Pirkey Barber PLLC ❶ Radulescu LLP ❷

Corporate Governance Law Dwyer Murphy Calvert LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸ Queen Saenz + Schutz PLLC ❶ Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati ❷

Corporate Law Akerman LLP ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Edwards Law ❶

Armbrust & Brown, PLLC ❸

Enoch Kever PLLC ❶

Greenberg Traurig ❶

Barrett Daffin Frappier Turner & Engel, LLP ❷

Branscomb Law ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Barron & Newburger, P.C. ❸

Ewell, Brown, Blanke & Knight LLP ❶

Clark Hill PLC ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Clark Hill PLC ❷

Fish & Richardson P.C. ❶

Cook Brooks Johnson PLLC ❷

K&L Gates LLP ❸

Erin B. Shank, P.C. ❸

Fritz Byrne PLLC ❸

Dickinson Wright PLLC ❷

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶

Frank B. Lyon ❷

George Brothers Kincaid & Horton LLP ❶

DLA Piper ❶

Kemp Smith LLP ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❸

DuBois Bryant & Campbell LLP ❶

Larry E. Temple ❶

Husch Blackwell LLP ❶

Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody P.C. ❶

Dwyer Murphy Calvert LLP ❶

Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Townsend, P.C. ❷

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❸

Stephen A Roberts, PC ❶

Hance Scarborough, LLP ❷

Streusand, Landon, Ozburn & Lemmon, LLP ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷ Hilliard Shadowen, LLC ❸

Bet-the-Company Litigation

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Alexander Dubose & Jefferson LLP ❶

Howry, Breen & Herman, LLP ❶

Almanza, Blackburn, Dickie & Mitchell LLP ❶

Husch Blackwell LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❸

JAE Law Group, PLLC ❷

Bracewell LLP ❸

James J. Scheske, PLLC ❷

William C. Pollard, Attorney and Counselor ❷

Butler Snow LLP ❶

Johns & Counsel PLLC ❶

Winstead PC ❶

Byrd Davis Alden & Henrichson, LLP ❷

Kidd Law Firm ❷

Davis, Gerald & Cremer P.C. ❶

King & Spalding LLP ❶

George Brothers Kincaid & Horton LLP ❶

Law Office of George Butts ❷

Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody P.C. ❶

Law Offices of Scott Moore ❸

Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody P.C. ❶

McGinnis Lochridge ❷ Munck Wilson Mandala ❸ O’Melveny & Myers ❶ Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP ❷ Winstead PC ❶

Antitrust Law

Hilliard Shadowen, LLC ❶ Paul Griffin Law ❶

Appellate Practice

Alexander Dubose & Jefferson LLP ❶ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Botsford & Roark ❶ Butler Snow LLP ❶ Cokinos Young, P.C. ❷ Davis, Gerald & Cremer P.C. ❷ Duggins Wren Mann & Romero, LLP ❸ Enoch Kever PLLC ❶ Ewell, Brown, Blanke & Knight LLP ❷

Law Office of Michael Baumer ❶

Greenberg Traurig ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❶

Gray & Becker, P.C. ❶

Marrs Ellis & Hodge LLP ❶

Hance Scarborough, LLP ❶

McGinnis Lochridge ❶

Hilliard Shadowen, LLC ❷

Miller Lloyd P.C. ❷

Holland & Knight LLP ❸ Howry, Breen & Herman, LLP ❶ Husch Blackwell LLP ❷

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Law Office of Lynda Romero ❷

Ramon Worthington Nicolas & Cantu, P.L.L.C. ❸

Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody P.C. ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Richardson Firm PLLC ❶

Greenberg Traurig ❶

Scott Douglass & McConnico LLP ❶

Scott Douglass & McConnico LLP ❶

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, P.C. ❷

Shearman & Sterling LLP ❶

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❷

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Jackson, Sjoberg & Townsend, L.L.P. ❷ Keith S. Hampton, Attorney at Law ❸ Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶ Law Office of Harriet O’Neill ❶ Law Office of Lynda Romero ❸ Law Office of Susan Hays, P.C. ❸ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷ Pamela Stanton Baron ❶ Scott Douglass & McConnico LLP ❶ Susan Vance Law, PLLC ❸ The Law Office of David A. Schulman ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❷

Arbitration

Allensworth ❶ Duane Morris LLP ❸ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Skelton & Woody PLLC ❷

Biotechnology Law

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, P.C. ❷

Farney PC ❷

Thomas Williams McConnell PLLC ❶

McDermott Will & Emery ❸

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Waylon Allen ❸

Parker Highlander PLLC ❶

Weisbart Springer Hayes LLP ❶

Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)

Winstead PC ❶ Wright & Greenhill, P.C. ❸

Dwyer Murphy Calvert LLP ❷ Giordani Baker Grossman & Ripp LLP ❶

Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law Armbrust & Brown, PLLC ❶

Construction Law Allensworth ❶

Andrews Myers, P.C. ❶ Cokinos Young, P.C. ❶ Duane Morris LLP ❶

Winstead PC ❷

Fee, Smith & Sharp, LLP ❸

Commercial Litigation

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❷

Allensworth ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Almanza, Blackburn, Dickie & Mitchell LLP ❶

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❷

Armbrust & Brown, PLLC ❷

Peckar & Abramson, P.C. ❶ Winstead PC ❶

Alexander Dubose & Jefferson LLP ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❷

Howry, Breen & Herman, LLP ❸

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Enoch Kever PLLC ❸ Greenberg Traurig ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶ Latham & Watkins LLP ❷ Law Office of Karen Holody ❷ McGinnis Lochridge ❶ O’Melveny & Myers ❸

Metro Rankings

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❷

Gray & Becker, P.C. ❶

Queen Saenz + Schutz PLLC ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Criminal Defense: General Practice Botsford & Roark ❶

Fitzgerald & Meissner, P.C. ❷ Gunter, Bennett and Anthes, P.C. ❷ Joseph A. Turner, P.C. ❷ Minton, Bassett, Flores & Carsey, P.C. ❶ Sumpter & Gonzalez ❶ Terrence W. Kirk, Attorney at Law ❸ The Law Office of E.G. Morris ❶

Criminal Defense: White-Collar Almanza, Blackburn, Dickie & Mitchell LLP ❷ Botsford & Roark ❶ Butler Snow LLP ❶ Fitzgerald & Meissner, P.C. ❷ Gunter, Bennett and Anthes, P.C. ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Joseph A. Turner, P.C. ❶ Law Office of Lynda Romero ❸ Minton, Bassett, Flores & Carsey, P.C. ❶ Terrence W. Kirk, Attorney at Law ❸ The Law Office of E.G. Morris ❶

Education Law

Brim, Robinett, Cantu & Brim, P.C. ❶ Husch Blackwell LLP ❸ Tiger Hanner ❷ Walsh Gallegos Treviño Kyle & Robinson P.C. ❶

Elder Law

Farrell & Johnson PLLC ❶ King & Spalding LLP ❸ Marilyn G. Miller, Attorney at Law ❶ The Lovelace Law Firm, P.C. ❶ Thompson & Tiemann LLP ❷

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Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law

Barron Adler Clough & Oddo, PLLC ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷

Balch & Bingham LLP ❶ Beveridge & Diamond PC ❶ Bracewell LLP ❶

Marrs Ellis & Hodge LLP ❶

Cobb & Counsel PLLC ❸

Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law

Duggins Wren Mann & Romero, LLP ❸

Barton Law Office A Professional Corporation ❷

Dykema Gossett PLLC ❸

Bradshaw & Bickerton PLLC ❶

Ewell, Brown, Blanke & Knight LLP ❷

FisherBroyles, LLP ❷

Fritz Byrne PLLC ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody P.C. ❷

Kuperman, Orr & Albers, P.C. ❶

Enoch Kever PLLC ❶

Winstead PC ❸

Gregg Law PC ❷

Employment Law - Individuals

Hays Law Firm ❸

Cornell Smith Mierl Brutocao & Burton, LLP ❷

Deats Durst & Owen, P.L.L.C. ❶ DeShazo & Nesbitt L.L.P. ❶ Kator, Parks, Weiser & Wright, PLLC ❶ Moreland Verrett, P.C. ❸ The Law Offices of Kell A. Simon ❷ Weisbart Springer Hayes LLP ❶

Employment Law - Management Boulette Golden & Marin L.L.P. ❶ Cornell Smith Mierl Brutocao & Burton, LLP ❶ DeShazo & Nesbitt L.L.P. ❶ Enoch Kever PLLC ❷ Husch Blackwell LLP ❸ Hutcheson Bowers LLLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷

Metro Rankings

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Kronenberger Law Firm, PLLC ❷ Littler ❶ Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Townsend, P.C. ❶ Moreland Verrett, P.C. ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. ❶ Weisbart Springer Hayes LLP ❶

Energy Law

Bracewell LLP ❶ Coffin Renner LLP ❶ Duane Morris LLP ❸ Duggins Wren Mann & Romero, LLP ❷ Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP ❶ Gibson Oil & Gas Law ❸ Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody P.C. ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❷ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Jim Boyle Law PLLC ❸ Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶ Law Offices of Roger P. Nevola ❷ McGinnis Lochridge ❶ O’Melveny & Myers ❶ Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP ❶ Spencer Fane LLP ❷ Winstead PC ❶

Energy Regulatory Law Clark Hill PLC ❶

Duggins Wren Mann & Romero, LLP ❶ Ewell, Brown, Blanke & Knight LLP ❷ Holland & Knight LLP ❸ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ John F. Williams ❷ Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Townsend, P.C. ❷ O’Melveny & Myers ❶

Environmental Law

Armbrust & Brown, PLLC ❷

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Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ K&L Gates LLP ❷ Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶ Kemp Smith LLP ❶ KG Strategies, LLC ❶ Law Office of Mary Reagan ❷ Law Offices of Ken Ramirez ❷ Law Offices of Roger P. Nevola ❶ Mathews & Freeland LLP ❷ McGinnis Lochridge ❶ Rigby Slack ❸ Smiley Law Firm, P.C. ❷ Smith Jolin LLP ❶ Smith Robertson LLP ❶ The AL Law Group PLLC ❸ The Law Office of Keith Hopson, PLLC ❶ The Morton Law Firm PLLC ❶ Winstead PC ❷

Family Law

BurnettTurner ❶

Government Relations Practice Borgelt Law ❷

Brackin Schwartz ❶ Butler Snow LLP ❶ Deborah Goodell Polan P.C. ❶

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. ❶ Weisbart Springer Hayes LLP ❷

Land Use & Zoning Law Armbrust & Brown, PLLC ❶

Foley & Lardner LLP ❸

Husch Blackwell LLP ❷

Graydon Gibson & Associates, LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Greenberg Traurig ❶

McLean & Howard, L.L.P. ❸

Husch Blackwell LLP ❶ Jack W. Gullahorn PC ❶ Johnson and Johnson ❸ K&L Gates LLP ❸ Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❷ KG Strategies, LLC ❷ Law Offices of Ellen Williams ❷ Law Offices of Ken Ramirez ❷ Law Offices of Lisa K. Anderson ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❷ Poinsett PLLC ❶

Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants

Fish & Richardson P.C. ❷ Scott Douglass & McConnico LLP ❶

Litigation - Antitrust

Davis, Gerald & Cremer P.C. ❶ Hilliard Shadowen, LLC ❶ Paul Griffin Law ❷ The Cicala Law Firm PLLC ❸

Litigation - Banking & Finance

Randy C. Cain, Attorney At Law ❶

Bracewell LLP ❸

Health Care Law

Holland & Knight LLP ❷

Clark Hill PLC ❷

Dalrymple, Shellhorse, Ellis & Diamond, LLP ❷ Germer PLLC ❸ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Husch Blackwell LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Joy & Young, LLP ❶ K&L Gates LLP ❷ King & Spalding LLP ❶ McGinnis Lochridge ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Reed Smith LLP ❷ Reed, Claymon, Meeker, Krienke & Spurck PLLC ❶

Davis, Gerald & Cremer P.C. ❶ McGinnis Lochridge ❶ Reger Law Firm ❶

Litigation - Bankruptcy Barron & Newburger, P.C. ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶ Reger Law Firm ❸ Stephen A Roberts, PC ❶

Litigation - Construction Allensworth ❶

Bracewell LLP ❶ Cokinos Young, P.C. ❷

Sharp & Cobos, LLP ❶

Davis, Gerald & Cremer P.C. ❷

Spencer Fane LLP ❸

Dickinson Wright PLLC ❸

Swann & Waddill ❶

Duane Morris LLP ❶

Goranson Bain Ausley, PLLC ❶

Winstead PC ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❸

Gray & Becker, P.C. ❶

Immigration Law

Coble Family Law & Mediation, PLLC ❶ Coldwell Bowes L.L.P. ❶ Friday Milner Lambert Turner, PLLC ❶

Hennan Culp, PLLC ❷ Law Office of Nikki Hudman ❷ Law Office of Rachel Moyle, PLLC ❷ Law Offices of Jennifer Tull ❶ Law Offices of Mary E. Jones ❷ Minton, Bassett, Flores & Carsey, P.C. ❶ Noelke Maples St. Leger Bryant, LLP ❶ Powers & Kerr, PLLC ❶ Rivers McNamara, PLLC ❶ Robert B. Luther, P.C. ❷ Sheridan Family Law PLLC ❷ Smith Family Law ❸ The Ilana R. Tanner Law Firm, PLLC ❸ Thompson Salinas Londergan LLP ❶ Vaught Law Firm, P.C. ❷ Walters Gilbreath ❸

Family Law Mediation

Coble Family Law & Mediation, PLLC ❷ Coldwell Bowes L.L.P. ❶ Friday Milner Lambert Turner, PLLC ❶ Goranson Bain Ausley, PLLC ❶ Gray & Becker, P.C. ❷ Law Offices of Mary E. Jones ❸ Noelke Maples St. Leger Bryant, LLP ❶ Thompson Salinas Londergan LLP ❷

Financial Services Regulation Law Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸ Larry E. Temple ❶ McGinnis Lochridge ❷

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Foster LLP ❶

K&L Gates LLP ❷ Paul Parsons P.C. ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Howry, Breen & Herman, LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Law Offices of R. Kemp Kasling, P.C. ❸ McGinnis Lochridge ❶

Insurance Law

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❷

Cantilo & Bennett, L.L.P. ❷

Scott Douglass & McConnico LLP ❶

De Leon & Washburn, P.C. ❸

Shidlofsky Law Firm PLLC ❶

De Leon Law, PLLC ❸

Winstead PC ❶

Dykema Gossett PLLC ❷ Evans & Herlihy Law Firm ❶

Litigation - Environmental

Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody P.C. ❶

Beveridge & Diamond PC ❶

Greenberg Traurig ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Maynard Nexsen PC ❸ Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard P.L.L.C. ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Shidlofsky Law Firm PLLC ❶ Skelton & Woody PLLC ❷ The Hohmann Law Firm ❷ Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Bracewell LLP ❶

Enoch Kever PLLC ❶ Fritz Byrne PLLC ❶ Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody P.C. ❶ Gregg Law PC ❷ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Husch Blackwell LLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❷

Van Osselaer Dispute Resolution PLLC ❶

King & Spalding LLP ❸

Labor Law - Management

Mathews & Freeland LLP ❶

Boulette Golden & Marin L.L.P. ❶ Cornell Smith Mierl Brutocao & Burton, LLP ❶ DeShazo & Nesbitt L.L.P. ❷ Husch Blackwell LLP ❸ Littler ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷

Law Offices of Roger P. Nevola ❷ McGinnis Lochridge ❸ Smith Jolin LLP ❶ The AL Law Group PLLC ❸ The Law Office of Keith Hopson, PLLC ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Litigation - First Amendment

Connor Lee & Schumaker, PLLC ❶

Lakeside Mediation Center ❶

Howry, Breen & Herman, LLP ❶

George Brothers Kincaid & Horton LLP ❷

Davis, Gerald & Cremer P.C. ❸

Michael J. Schless, P.C. ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸

Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody P.C. ❶

Dickinson Wright PLLC ❷

Thompson Salinas Londergan LLP ❸

Law Office of George Butts ❷

DiNovo Price LLP ❶

Tom Collins ❷

McGinnis Lochridge ❷

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸

Litigation - Health Care Leichter Law Firm PC ❷

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

DLA Piper ❶ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❷ Farney PC ❷ Greenberg Traurig ❸

Reed Smith LLP ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❷

Litigation - Insurance

K&L Gates LLP ❷

Dykema Gossett PLLC ❷

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❸ Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom ❶ Shidlofsky Law Firm PLLC ❶

Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants

Duane Morris LLP ❶

Husch Blackwell LLP ❸

Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷

Wright & Greenhill, P.C. ❷

Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs

Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs

Winckler, Harvey & McConnell, LLP ❶

McKool Smith PC ❶

Mergers & Acquisitions Law

Morrison & Foerster ❶

Dickinson Wright PLLC ❸

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Litigation - Intellectual Property

Parker Highlander PLLC ❶

Dwyer Murphy Calvert LLP ❶

Perkins Coie LLP ❶

Greenberg Traurig ❷

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷

Radulescu LLP ❸

Law Office of Karen Holody ❷

Slayden Grubert Beard PLLC ❶

McGinnis Lochridge ❶

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, P.C. ❷

Queen Saenz + Schutz PLLC ❶

Armond Wilson LLP ❶ Bracewell LLP ❶

Connor Lee & Schumaker, PLLC ❷ Davis, Gerald & Cremer P.C. ❸ Dechert LLP ❷

Williams Simons & Landis PLLC ❷

Dickinson Wright PLLC ❷

Litigation - Real Estate

DiNovo Price LLP ❷ DLA Piper ❶ Duane Morris LLP ❶ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❷ Farney PC ❷ Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody P.C. ❸ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ K&L Gates LLP ❶ King & Spalding LLP ❷ McDermott Will & Emery ❶ McKool Smith PC ❶ Morrison & Foerster ❶ Munck Wilson Mandala ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Parker Highlander PLLC ❶ Perkins Coie LLP ❶ Pirkey Barber PLLC ❶ Radulescu LLP ❸ Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. ❷ Slayden Grubert Beard PLLC ❶ Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, P.C. ❸

Gray & Becker, P.C. ❶ Howry, Breen & Herman, LLP ❶

Dies & Hile, LLP ❶ Evans & Herlihy Law Firm ❸ Furman Law Group ❷ Galow & Studdard ❷ Howry, Breen & Herman, LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸ McGinnis Lochridge ❶ Mueller Law ❷ Rick Freeman, P.C. ❶ Shaw Cowart LLP ❸ Slack Davis Sanger, LLP ❶

Law Offices of Roger P. Nevola ❶

The Bratton Firm, P.C. ❷

Natural Resources Law

Wenholz Dow, P.C. ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

DC Law ❶

Davis, Gerald & Cremer P.C. ❶

Texas Board of Legal Specialization ❷ The Law Office of Dicky Grigg ❶ Whitehurst, Harkness, Brees, Cheng, Alsaffar, Higginbotham, and Jacob, PLLC ❶

JAE Law Group, PLLC ❷

Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody P.C. ❶

Law Offices of Scott Moore ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷

McGinnis Lochridge ❸

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❷

Reger Law Firm ❶

Law Offices of Roger P. Nevola ❷

Weisbart Springer Hayes LLP ❷

McGinnis Lochridge ❶

Butler Snow LLP ❸

Zoll Firm, PLLC ❸

The AL Law Group PLLC ❸

Germer PLLC ❶

Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)

Nonprofit / Charities Law

Duggins Wren Mann & Romero, LLP ❷

McGinnis Lochridge ❷

Howry, Breen & Herman, LLP ❶

Oil & Gas Law

Brorby, Crozier & Dobie, P.C. ❶

O’Melveny & Myers ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Litigation - Securities

Davis, Gerald & Cremer P.C. ❶

George Brothers Kincaid & Horton LLP ❶

Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody P.C. ❷

Davis, Gerald & Cremer P.C. ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❸

Duggins Wren Mann & Romero, LLP ❷

Gray & Becker, P.C. ❸

King & Spalding LLP ❶

Winckler, Harvey & McConnell, LLP ❶

Product Liability Litigation - Defendants Barry Deacon Law ❷

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❶ King & Spalding LLP ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP ❶

Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs Apffel Law Firm ❷

Slack Davis Sanger, LLP ❶

Public Finance Law Bracewell LLP ❶

Greenberg Traurig ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❸

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❷

McCall, Parkhurst & Horton L.L.P. ❶

Williams Simons & Landis PLLC ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷

Litigation - Labor & Employment

Litigation - Tax

McGinnis Lochridge ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷

Scott Douglass & McConnico LLP ❶

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❶

Cook Brooks Johnson PLLC ❶

Patent Law

Railroad Law

Burns Anderson Jury & Brenner, L.L.P. ❶

Boulette Golden & Marin L.L.P. ❶ Cornell Smith Mierl Brutocao & Burton, LLP ❶ DeShazo & Nesbitt L.L.P. ❶

Almanza, Blackburn, Dickie & Mitchell LLP ❸

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Hutcheson Bowers LLLP ❷

Mondrik & Associates ❷

Bracewell LLP ❶

Jackson Lewis P.C. ❸

Litigation - Trusts & Estates

DiNovo Price LLP ❸

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Law Office of Aaron Charles De La Garza ❸ Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Townsend, P.C. ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. ❷ The Mullen Firm PLLC ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Weisbart Springer Hayes LLP ❶

Litigation - Land Use & Zoning

Eccles & McIntosh, PC ❷

Flaherty Jones Thompson PLLC ❶ Howry, Breen & Herman, LLP ❸ Ikard Law PC ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Osborne, Helman, Scott, Knisely & Stanton, LLP ❶ Perkins Coie LLP ❷ Scott Douglass & McConnico LLP ❶ The Karisch Law Firm, PLLC ❶

Litigation - Patent Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Bracewell LLP ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ HULSEY PC ❷ K&L Gates LLP ❷ Matheson Keys & Kordzik PLLC ❶ McDermott Will & Emery ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Phelan Bay, PLLC ❸

Husch Blackwell LLP ❷ Armond Wilson LLP ❶

Dykema Gossett PLLC ❸

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants

Barron Adler Clough & Oddo, PLLC ❶

Dickinson Wright PLLC ❷

Parker Highlander PLLC ❶ Perkins Coie LLP ❸ Radulescu LLP ❶ Slayden Grubert Beard PLLC ❶

Barry Deacon Law ❷

Real Estate Law

Armbrust & Brown, PLLC ❶ Clark Hill PLC ❸ Cook Brooks Johnson PLLC ❷ Drenner Group, PC ❸ DuBois Bryant & Campbell LLP ❶ Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody P.C. ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❸ Hurst Savage & Vanderburg, LLP ❶ Husch Blackwell LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ JAE Law Group, PLLC ❷ Jay Hailey PLLC ❶ Kuperman, Orr & Albers, P.C. ❷

King & Spalding LLP ❶

Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants

Mediation

Chamberlain McHaney PLLC ❸

McGinnis Lochridge ❶

Germer PLLC ❶

McLean & Howard, L.L.P. ❷

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❶

Metcalfe Wolff Stuart & Williams, LLP ❷

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❷

Karl Bayer ❶

Ranking Tier Indicated With �

Locke Lord LLP ❶

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Metro Rankings

Holland & Knight LLP ❸

DuBois Bryant & Campbell LLP ❷

Byrd Davis Alden & Henrichson, LLP ❶

Mining Law

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷

Davis, Gerald & Cremer P.C. ❶

Scott Douglass & McConnico LLP ❶

Germer PLLC ❶

Whitehurst, Harkness, Brees, Cheng, Alsaffar, Higginbotham, and Jacob, PLLC ❷

McDermott Will & Emery ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

McGinnis Lochridge ❷

Sneed, Vine & Perry, P.C. ❷

Osborne, Helman, Scott, Knisely & Stanton, LLP ❶

Stahl, Davies, Sewell, Chavarria & Friend, LLP ❶ Winstead PC ❶

Securities / Capital Markets Law Akerman LLP ❸ DLA Piper ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Latham & Watkins LLP ❷ McGinnis Lochridge ❷

Phelan Bay, PLLC ❸ Rigby Slack ❷

MehaffyWeber, P.C. ❶ Orgain Bell & Tucker, LLP ❷

Insurance Law

Brasher Law Firm ❶

The Karisch Law Firm, PLLC ❶

Fisher Firm ❷

The Law Office of David H. Goodman ❷

MehaffyWeber, P.C. ❶

Winstead PC ❶

Snider Law Firm, PLLC ❸

Utilities Law

Armbrust & Brown, PLLC ❷

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati ❶

O’Melveny & Myers ❶

Tax Law

Water Law

Beckett & Tackett PLLC ❷

Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta LLP ❶

Bracewell LLP ❶

Bracewell LLP ❶

Brorby, Crozier & Dobie, P.C. ❶

Culp & Kelly, LLP ❷

Armbrust & Brown, PLLC ❷

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Cook Brooks Johnson PLLC ❶

Dykema Gossett PLLC ❸

DuBois Bryant & Campbell LLP ❶

Ewell, Brown, Blanke & Knight LLP ❶

Flaherty Jones Thompson PLLC ❷

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷

Giordani Baker Grossman & Ripp LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Hughes Vanderburg Williams Booth PLLC ❶

Kemp Smith LLP ❷

Husch Blackwell LLP ❶

Law Offices of Ken Ramirez ❸

KG Strategies, LLC ❷

The Bradley Law Firm ❷ Wilkins | Gire ❶

Litigation - Construction

Benckenstein & Oxford, L.L.P. ❶ Moore Landrey LLP ❷ The Brandimarte Law Firm, PLLC ❶

Litigation - Environmental MehaffyWeber, P.C. ❶

Provost Umphrey Law Firm, L.L.P. ❷

Litigation - Insurance Brasher Law Firm ❷

Dodson Law Offices P.C. ❸ Germer PLLC ❶ MehaffyWeber, P.C. ❶

The Law Offices of Brent Coon & Associates ❷ Weller Green Toups & Terrell ❶

Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

Benckenstein & Oxford, L.L.P. ❷ Dodson Law Offices P.C. ❸ Germer PLLC ❶ MehaffyWeber, P.C. ❶ Wells Peyton Partain Baldo & Lighty, LLP ❷ Wilkins | Gire ❶

Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs

Provost Umphrey Law Firm, L.L.P. ❶ The Ferguson Law Firm LLP ❷

Real Estate Law

Creighton, Fox, Johnson & Mills, PLLC ❶ Germer PLLC ❷ MehaffyWeber, P.C. ❸ Wells Peyton Partain Baldo & Lighty, LLP ❶

Tax Law

Creighton, Fox, Johnson & Mills, PLLC ❷

Law Offices of Roger P. Nevola ❶

Litigation - Intellectual Property

Martens, Todd & Leonard ❶

Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Townsend, P.C. ❶

Wells Peyton Partain Baldo & Lighty, LLP ❶

McGinnis Lochridge ❷

Mary K. Sahs, P.C. ❸

The Heartfield Law Firm ❷

Trusts & Estates Law

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

McGinnis Lochridge ❶

Litigation - Labor & Employment

MehaffyWeber, P.C. ❸

Phillips Golden LLP ❷

Smiley Law Firm, P.C. ❷

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Kuperman, Orr & Albers, P.C. ❸

Popp Hutcheson PLLC ❸

Metro Rankings

Perkins Coie LLP ❶

Health Care Law

Reed Smith LLP ❸ Selman Munson & Lerner P.C. ❷ William C. Pollard, Attorney and Counselor ❸ Winstead PC ❶

Technology Law

Broussard Counseling ❶ Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP ❷

Trademark Law Bracewell LLP ❸

Dickinson Wright PLLC ❶ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ K&L Gates LLP ❷ King & Spalding LLP ❶

Orgain Bell & Tucker, LLP ❶

Calvert Eaves Clarke & Stelly, L.L.P. ❶ Orgain Bell & Tucker, LLP ❷

Beaumont

Litigation - Real Estate

Admiralty & Maritime Law

Moore Landrey LLP ❷

Benckenstein & Oxford, L.L.P. ❶ Bernsen Law ❸

Calvert Eaves Clarke & Stelly, L.L.P. ❶ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Provost Umphrey Law Firm, L.L.P. ❷

Appellate Practice

Calvert Eaves Clarke & Stelly, L.L.P. ❷ MehaffyWeber, P.C. ❶

Banking and Finance Law Snider Law Firm, PLLC ❷

Wells Peyton Partain Baldo & Lighty, LLP ❶

Creighton, Fox, Johnson & Mills, PLLC ❶ Orgain Bell & Tucker, LLP ❶

Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants Fisher Firm ❷

Germer PLLC ❶ MehaffyWeber, P.C. ❶ Moore Landrey LLP ❸

Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs Benckenstein & Oxford, L.L.P. ❷

Provost Umphrey Law Firm, L.L.P. ❶

Commercial Litigation

Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants

Munck Wilson Mandala ❶

Hicks Thomas LLP ❸

Calvert Eaves Clarke & Stelly, L.L.P. ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Kebodeaux, Hargroder & Associates, L.L.P. ❸

Clark Hill PLC ❸ Dodson Law Offices P.C. ❷

Radulescu LLP ❸

MehaffyWeber, P.C. ❶

Germer PLLC ❶

Trusts & Estates Law

Moore Landrey LLP ❶

Gilbert Adams Law Offices ❷

Orgain Bell & Tucker, LLP ❶

MehaffyWeber, P.C. ❶

Portner Bond PLLC ❷

Moore Landrey LLP ❷

Seale, Stover & Bisbey ❷

Orgain Bell & Tucker, LLP ❶

The Ferguson Law Firm LLP ❶

Wells Peyton Partain Baldo & Lighty, LLP ❶

Matheson Keys & Kordzik PLLC ❶ McDermott Will & Emery ❷

Pirkey Barber PLLC ❶

Baird, Crews, Schiller & Whitaker, P.C. ❶ Barton Law Office A Professional Corporation ❶ Blazier, Christensen, Browder & Virr, P.C. ❸

Germer PLLC ❶

Wells Peyton Partain Baldo & Lighty, LLP ❷

Benckenstein & Oxford, L.L.P. ❸

Creighton, Fox, Johnson & Mills, PLLC ❷ The Yoes Law Firm, L.L.P. ❶ Wells Peyton Partain Baldo & Lighty, LLP ❶

Corpus Christi Admiralty & Maritime Law Brunkenhoefer, P.C. ❷ Royston Rayzor ❶ Welder Leshin LLP ❶

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law Dykema Gossett PLLC ❷ Jordan & Ortiz, P.C. ❶

Bet-the-Company Litigation Canales & Simonson, P.C. ❶

The Rangel Law Firm, P.C. ❶

Commercial Litigation Branscomb Law ❶

Canales & Simonson, P.C. ❸ Harris & Greenwell ❷ Huseman Law Firm ❷ Ray Thomas, PC ❶ The Rangel Law Firm, P.C. ❶

Criminal Defense: White-Collar Canales & Simonson, P.C. ❷ Harris & Greenwell ❶

Wilkins | Gire ❶

Family Law

Criminal Defense: General Practice

Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs

Law Office of William A. Dudley, P.C. ❶

Joseph C. Hawthorn, P.C. ❶

Dugas Law Firm ❷

Giordani Baker Grossman & Ripp LLP ❶

The Gertz Kelley Law Firm PLLC ❸

Gilbert Adams Law Offices ❸

Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody P.C. ❶

Criminal Defense: White-Collar

Donald F. Carnes, P.C. ❶ DuBois Bryant & Campbell LLP ❸ Eccles & McIntosh, PC ❸ Elizabeth Morgan & Associates, LLP ❷ Flaherty Jones Thompson PLLC ❶

Hardie Alcozer ❷ Hopper Mikeska, PLLC ❶

David E. Grove ❶

David E. Grove ❷

Joseph C. Hawthorn, P.C. ❶

Hughes Vanderburg Williams Booth PLLC ❶

Environmental Law

Ikard Law PC ❷

Provost Umphrey Law Firm, L.L.P. ❷

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

David E. Grove ❶

Kuperman, Orr & Albers, P.C. ❷

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Benckenstein & Oxford, L.L.P. ❸

Malley Law Firm PLLC ❷ Moore Landrey LLP ❶ Portner Bond PLLC ❶ Provost Umphrey Law Firm, L.L.P. ❶ Reaud, Morgan & Quinn, L.L.P. ❷ Seale, Stover & Bisbey ❶ Sutton & Jacobs LLP ❶ The Ferguson Law Firm LLP ❶

Coover & Coover ❶

Litigation - Bankruptcy Dykema Gossett PLLC ❷ Jordan & Ortiz, P.C. ❶

Litigation - Trusts & Estates Branscomb Law ❷

Huseman Law Firm ❶

Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants Canales & Simonson, P.C. ❷ Colvin, Saenz, Rodriguez & Kennamer, L.L.P. ❶

Cullen, Carsner, Seerden & Cullen, LLP ❶

Cowles & Thompson ❷

Locke Lord LLP ❸

Dunn, Coffey & Kasperitis, P.C. ❷

Deborah Hankinson: Comprehensive Conflict Resolution ❶

Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP ❷

Hartline Barger LLP ❶ Huseman Law Firm ❸ McKibben, Martinez, Jarvis, & Wood, L.L.P. ❸

Durham, Pittard & Spalding, L.L.P. ❶ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❶

Banking and Finance Law

Meadows, Collier, Reed, Cousins, Crouch & Ungerman, L.L.P. ❸ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶ Neligan LLP ❶ Nicholas A. Foley ❷

Foley & Lardner LLP ❷

A. Rick Hightower, Attorney and Counselor at Law ❸

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Royston Rayzor ❶

Frost Brown Todd LLP ❷

Alston & Bird LLP ❶

O’Melveny & Myers ❶

Sico Hoelscher Harris LLP ❷

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Otteson Shapiro LLP ❸

The Rangel Law Firm, P.C. ❶

Godwin Bowman PC ❷

Barlow Garsek & Simon, LLP ❸

Perkins Coie LLP ❶

Thornton, Biechlin, Reynolds & Guerra, L.C. ❶

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❷

Condon Tobin Sladek Thornton Nerenberg PLLC ❸

Polsinelli PC ❷

Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Brunkenhoefer, P.C. ❸

Canales & Simonson, P.C. ❶ Constant Law Firm ❶ Hartline Barger LLP ❷ Hilliard Law ❶ Law Offices of Michael M. Guerra ❶ Ray Thomas, PC ❷ Sico Hoelscher Harris LLP ❶ The Edwards Law Firm ❶ The Gutierrez Law Firm Inc. ❸ The Ramirez Law Firm, PLLC ❶

Product Liability Litigation - Defendants Lawler & Associates, P.C. ❶

Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Johnston Tobey Baruch, P.C. ❶ Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶ Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❸ Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❷ L. Kirstine Rogers PLLC ❷ Law Office of Bruce K. Thomas ❸ Law Office of Steven K. Hayes ❶ Law Offices of Sean R. Cox L.L.C. ❸ Levinger PC ❶

Dorsey & Whitney LLP ❸ Frost Brown Todd LLP ❷

Quilling, Selander, Lownds, Winslett & Moser, P.C. ❷

Greenberg Traurig ❷

Reed & Elmquist ❸

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Reed Smith LLP ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Reid Collins & Tsai LLP ❷

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶

Robin Phelan Law ❶

Husch Blackwell LLP ❷

Rochelle McCullough, L.L.P. ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Ross, Smith & Binford, PC ❶

Jones Day ❶

Shearman & Sterling LLP ❶

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❷

Sidley Austin LLP ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❷

Singer & Levick, P.C. ❶

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶

Sommerman, McCaffity, Quesada & Geisler, LLP ❷

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❶ Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann, LLP ❶ Mayer LLP ❷ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❸

Otteson Shapiro LLP ❷ Polsinelli PC ❷ Reed Smith LLP ❶ Robert Byron Jackson ❷

Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs

Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson, LLP ❶

Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Polsinelli PC ❷

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP ❶

The Ramirez Law Firm, PLLC ❶

Scheef & Stone, L.L.P. ❶

Winstead PC ❶

Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP ❸

Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Sico Hoelscher Harris LLP ❷

Real Estate Law Branscomb Law ❸

Stolley Law P.C. ❶

David Z. Conoly, P.C. ❶

Ted B. Lyon & Associates, P.C. ❷

Wood Boykin & Wolter, P.C. ❶

Tillotson Law Firm ❶

Tax Law

McDonald & Adkins, LLP ❷ Ostarch, Hilm & McCauley, PLLC ❶

Trusts & Estates Law Branscomb Law ❶

Davis, Hutchinson & Wilkerson, L.L.P. ❶

Akerman LLP ❶

Udashen Anton ❶

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❶

Winston & Strawn LLP ❷

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Barrett Daffin Frappier Turner & Engel, LLP ❸

Arbitration

Burdin Mediations ❷ Deborah Hankinson: Comprehensive Conflict Resolution ❶ Diamond McCarthy LLP ❶ Donald O. Pratt ❸

Dallas/Fort Worth

Estes Thorne Ewing & Payne, PLLC ❶

Clark Hill PLC ❷

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶ Richard L. Adams Law PLLC ❶

Antitrust Law

Brown Fox PLLC ❷ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Polsinelli PC ❸ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Thompson Coburn LLP ❷ Winston & Strawn LLP ❷

Appellate Practice

Alexander Dubose & Jefferson LLP ❶

Butler Snow LLP ❶

Cavazos Hendricks Poirot, P.C. ❶

JAMS ❶

Chamblee Ryan, P.C. ❸

John W. Hughes, P.C. ❷

Clark Hill PLC ❶

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶

Crowe & Dunlevy ❸

Kendall Law Group, PLLC ❶

Culhane Meadows PLLC ❸

Lacy Malone Steppick Ryder & Menefee, PLLC ❷

Diamond McCarthy LLP ❷ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❶ Fears Law Firm ❶

Meadows, Collier, Reed, Cousins, Crouch & Ungerman, L.L.P. ❸ Melinda G. Jayson, P.C. ❶ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶ Peckar & Abramson, P.C. ❸

Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Forshey Prostok LLP ❶ Fox Rothschild LLP ❷ Frost Brown Todd LLP ❷ Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❸ Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Scheef & Stone, L.L.P. ❸

Hayward PLLC ❷

Silverberg Mediation ❷ The Law Office of Patricia A. Nolan ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Jones Day ❶

Broden & Mickelsen, LLP ❷

Will Pryor Mediation & Arbitration ❶

Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❶

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❶

Aviation Law

Bailey Brauer PLLC ❸ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Bell Nunnally LLP ❸

Cecere PC ❶ Chad Ruback, Appellate Lawyer ❶ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Cooper & Scully, P.C. ❷

Katten ❶

Brown, Proctor & Howell, L.L.P. ❶ Cantey Hanger LLP ❶ Frost Brown Todd LLP ❶ Harper & Bates LLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Winstead PC ❶

Bet-the-Company Litigation Alston & Bird LLP ❸

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❶ Carter Arnett, PLLC ❷ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Cobb Martinez Woodward PLLC ❸ Figari + Davenport, LLP ❶ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❸

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Lyon, Gorsky & Gilbert, L.L.P. ❷

Wick Phillips, LLP ❸

Bell Nunnally LLP ❶

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❷

Locke Lord LLP ❷

Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC ❸

Harris, Finley & Bogle, P.C. ❸

Harris Solutions ❶

Lawrence R. Maxwell, Jr. ❷

Thompson Coburn LLP ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Beard Kultgen Brophy Bostwick & Dickson, PLLC ❷ Bonds Ellis Eppich Schafer Jones LLP ❷

Welder Leshin LLP ❷

Administrative / Regulatory Law

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Spencer Fane LLP ❶

Law Office Of Sam Stricklin ❷ Law Offices of Frank J. Wright ❷ McDermott Will & Emery ❶ McGuire, Craddock & Strother, P.C. ❷ McKool Smith PC ❷

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O’Neil Wysocki Family Law ❸

Royston Rayzor ❷

Phillips Murrah P.C. ❷

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Holmes Law PLLC ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶ Levinger PC ❷ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Lonny D. Morrison ❷ Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann, LLP ❶ McKool Smith PC ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ The Law Offices of Shirley Baccus-Lobel, P.C. ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Werbner Law ❷ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships) Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Winstead PC ❶

Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law Barlow Garsek & Simon, LLP ❷ Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❶

Commercial Finance Law Bell Nunnally LLP ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❸

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Sidley Austin LLP ❶

Holman Robertson Eldridge, P.C. ❸

Squire Patton Boggs ❶

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❷

Holmes Law PLLC ❷

Stanton LLP ❷

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶

Steed Dunnill Reynolds Bailey Stephenson LLP ❶

Commercial Litigation

Alexander Dubose & Jefferson LLP ❷ Alston & Bird LLP ❶ Amy Stewart PC ❷ Arcadi Jackson, LLP ❶ Atwood Gameros LLP ❶ Bailey Brauer PLLC ❶ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Baker McKenzie LLP ❷ Barnes & Thornburg LLP ❶ Bell Nunnally LLP ❶ Betsy Whitaker ❶ Blackwell, Blackburn, Herring & Singer ❸ Boyd, Powers & Williamson ❶ Brackett & Ellis, P.C. ❶ Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❶ Bragalone Olejko Saad PC ❶ Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors ❸ Brian Lauten, P.C. ❷ Brown Fox PLLC ❶ Brown, Proctor & Howell, L.L.P. ❷ Bruner & Bruner, PC ❸ Burke Bogdanowicz PLLC ❷ Burns Charest LLP ❶ Busch Ruotolo & Simpson, LLP ❸ Campbell Miller Payne ❷ Cantey Hanger LLP ❶

Metro Rankings

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❶

Husch Blackwell LLP ❶ Jackson Spencer Law PLLC ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Johnston Tobey Baruch, P.C. ❶ Jones Day ❶ K&L Gates LLP ❶ Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❶ Katten ❷ Keating Brown PLLC ❶ Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶ Kessler Collins, P.C. ❶ Kilgore & Kilgore PLLC ❸

Stephens Law Firm, PLLC ❸ The Allen Law Group, PLLC ❶ The Brame Law Firm PLLC ❷

Corporate Compliance Law Foley & Lardner LLP ❷

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Corporate Governance Law Foley & Lardner LLP ❷

The Eichman Firm PLLC ❸

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

The Law Office of Patricia A. Nolan ❶

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❷

The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson, P.C. ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸

Thomas Kurth Arbitration, P.L.L.C ❶

Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Thompson Coburn LLP ❷ Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP ❸ Tillotson Law Firm ❶

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP ❶

Corporate Law

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❶

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Alston & Bird LLP ❶ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

King & Fisher, PLLC ❶

Waddell Serafino Geary Rechner Jenevein, PC ❷

Baker McKenzie LLP ❶

Koning Rubarts LLP ❶

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP ❶

BakerHostetler ❷

Law Office of John Roper, PLLC ❶

Werbner Law ❶

Bell Nunnally LLP ❸

Law Office of Steven Malin PLLC ❷

Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC ❸

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❸

Wick Phillips, LLP ❶

Clark Hill PLC ❶

Winstead PC ❶

Darrel A. Rice, Attorney at Law ❶

Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Dorsey & Whitney LLP ❸

Zelle LLP ❷

Dykema Gossett PLLC ❶

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❶

Law Offices of Alan W. Harris ❷ Law Offices of Brad Jackson ❶ Law Offices of Eric T. Stahl ❶ Law Offices of Joel M. Fineberg PC ❸ Law Offices of Thomas E. Shaw, P.C. ❸ Law Offices of Tim Gavin ❶ LeBoeuf Law, PLLC ❶

Construction Law Bracewell LLP ❸

Levinger PC ❶

Canterbury, P.C. ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❶

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❶

Lumens Law Group PLLC ❶

Egan Nelson LLP ❶ Exall Legal Advisors, PLLC ❷ Farrow-Gillespie Heath Wilmoth LLP ❷ Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC ❸ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶

Clark Hill PLC ❶

Frost Brown Todd LLP ❶

Cokinos Young, P.C. ❶

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶

Cozen O’Connor ❸

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❶

Donald O. Pratt ❸

Hallett & Perrin, P.C. ❶

Downs & Stanford, P.C. ❷

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

FisherBroyles, LLP ❷

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Fisk Attorneys, P.C. ❶

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶

Gerstle, Minissale & Snelson ❷

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

McKool Smith PC ❶

Gravely P.C. ❷

Jones Day ❶

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❶

K&L Gates LLP ❷

Crawford, Wishnew & Lang PLLC ❶

Meadows, Collier, Reed, Cousins, Crouch & Ungerman, L.L.P. ❶

Griffith Davison P.C. ❶

Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❷

Culhane Meadows PLLC ❸

Michelman & Robinson, LLP ❸

Grotefeld Hoffmann LLP ❶

Katten ❶

Daniel Sheehan & Associates, LLP ❷

Monning & Wynne, PLLC ❷

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❸

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❸

David Allen Law Group ❸

Munck Wilson Mandala ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Kessler Collins, P.C. ❸

Dawson & Sodd LLP ❷

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶

Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❶

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❷

Deary Ray LLP ❶

Neil Rambin Law PLLC ❸

Laird E. Lawrence Arbitration Services ❶

Decker Jones, PC ❸

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Lovein Ribman PC ❶

Lacy Malone Steppick Ryder & Menefee, PLLC ❸

Dentons U.S. LLP ❷

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. ❷

McGuire, Craddock & Strother, P.C. ❶

Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann, LLP ❶

Carter Arnett, PLLC ❶

Lyons & Simmons ❶

Champion LLP ❸

Magee Legal, PLLC ❸

Clark Hill PLC ❶

Martin Powers & Counsel ❷

Cobb Martinez Woodward PLLC ❶

Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom ❷

Condon Tobin Sladek Thornton Nerenberg PLLC ❶

Mayer LLP ❷

Conner & Winters, LLP ❷

McGuire, Craddock & Strother, P.C. ❷

Cooper & Scully, P.C. ❶ Cowles & Thompson ❶

Diamond McCarthy LLP ❶ DLA Piper ❶ Dorsey & Whitney LLP ❶ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❶ Estes Thorne Ewing & Payne, PLLC ❶ Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP ❷ Farrow-Gillespie Heath Wilmoth LLP ❶ Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC ❸ Figari + Davenport, LLP ❶ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Frost Brown Todd LLP ❶ Gardner Haas PLLC ❷ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Glast, Phillips & Murray, P.C. ❸ Godwin Bowman PC ❶ Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❷ Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Grotefeld Hoffmann LLP ❸

McDonald Sanders, P.C. ❷

O’Melveny & Myers ❶ Otteson Shapiro LLP ❷ PeavlerBriscoe ❶ Peckar & Abramson, P.C. ❷ Phelps Dunbar LLP ❷ Polsinelli PC ❶ Powers Taylor LLP ❷

Mira Blanton ❸ Nassen Mediations ❶ Nixon Jach Hubbard, PLLC ❷ Peckar & Abramson, P.C. ❶ Robert Elder Jr. PC ❷ Saunders, Walsh & Beard ❷ Scheef & Stone, L.L.P. ❷

Locke Lord LLP ❶ McDermott Will & Emery ❷ McGuireWoods LLP ❷ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❷ Munck Wilson Mandala ❷ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ O’Melveny & Myers ❶ Phillips Murrah P.C. ❷

Reed Smith LLP ❷

Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP ❷

Reese Marketos LLP ❶

Slates Harwell LLP ❶

Scheef & Stone, L.L.P. ❷

Richards Law PLLC ❷

Thomas, Feldman & Wilshusen, L.L.P. ❶

Riney Ronquillo Soule, PLLC ❷

Underwood Law Firm, P.C. ❶

Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP ❸

Rogge Dunn Group PC ❷

Vitek Lange PLLC ❸

Sanders Collins ❸

Weinstein Radcliff Pipkin LLP ❶

Saunders, Walsh & Beard ❸ Sbaiti & Company ❷

Winstead PC ❶

Powell Coleman & Arnold LLP ❷

Shearman & Sterling LLP ❶ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❶

Sessions, Israel & Shartle ❸

Copyright Law

Spencer Fane LLP ❷

Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP ❶

Ciccarelli Law Firm ❷

Valdez Washington LLP ❸

Carstens, Allen & Gourley, LLP ❷

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. ❸

Harris, Finley & Bogle, P.C. ❷

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❶

Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Sidley Austin LLP ❶

Hitchcock Evert LLP ❶

Hermes Law, P.C. ❸

Slates Harwell LLP ❶

McGuireWoods LLP ❷

Hicks Law Group PLLC ❷

Sommerman, McCaffity, Quesada & Geisler, LLP ❶

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Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hollingsworth Walker ❷

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Munck Wilson Mandala ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Richard Law Group ❶

Albin Oldner Law, PLLC ❷ Broden & Mickelsen, LLP ❶ Burleson, Pate & Gibson, L.L.P. ❶

Chris Lewis + Associates, P.C. ❷ Clancy & Clancy Attorneys at Law ❷ Daniel K. Hagood P.C. ❷ David Burrows ❷ Fitzpatrick Jacks Smith Uhl PC ❶ Jackson & Hagen ❶ Kearney Law Firm ❶

Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC ❸

Estes Thorne Ewing & Payne, PLLC ❷

Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law

Fisher Phillips LLP ❶

Farrow-Gillespie Heath Wilmoth LLP ❷ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Law Offices of Kenneth A. Wright ❶ Padfield & Stout LLP ❸

Estes Thorne Ewing & Payne, PLLC ❶ Koning Rubarts LLP ❶

Winstead PC ❷

Law Offices of William A. Bratton, III ❶

Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law

Jackson Lewis P.C. ❶

BakerHostetler ❶

Jones Day ❶

Reed W. Prospere ❶ Robert Hinton & Associates PC ❶ Ronald L. Goranson ❷ Scott H. Palmer, P.C. ❸ Shook & Gunter, Attorneys at Law ❶ Sorrels Ola ❶ The Hampton Law Firm PLLC ❸ Tom Mills Criminal Law, PLLC ❶ Udashen Anton ❶

Criminal Defense: White-Collar Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❷ Broden & Mickelsen, LLP ❶ Burleson, Pate & Gibson, L.L.P. ❶ Charles W. Blau, P.C. ❶ Chris Lewis + Associates, P.C. ❸ Daniel K. Hagood P.C. ❶ DLA Piper ❷ Ethington and Associates ❷ Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❷ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Jackson & Hagen ❶ Kearney Law Firm ❶ Law Firm of Nicole Knox ❸ Law Offices of Dan C. Guthrie Jr. ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Meadows, Collier, Reed, Cousins, Crouch & Ungerman, L.L.P. ❶ Michael Uhl, P.C. ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❸ O’Melveny & Myers ❷ Robert Hinton & Associates PC ❷ Robert L. Webster, Attorney at Law ❶ Robert R. Smith, PC ❸

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❷

Clark Hill PLC ❷

Littler ❶

Finston Friedman Fisher Law Group, LLP ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

McDonald Sanders, P.C. ❸ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Munck Wilson Mandala ❶

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❷

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❷

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷

Karen K. Suhre ❶

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. ❶

Law Office of Mark A. Ticer ❸

Perkins Coie LLP ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❶

Phelps Dunbar LLP ❷

McDermott Will & Emery ❶

Polsinelli PC ❷

McDonald Sanders, P.C. ❷

Rogge Dunn Group PC ❷

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❷

Scheef & Stone, L.L.P. ❶

Polsinelli PC ❶ Robert M. Herman, P.C. ❸ Scheef & Stone, L.L.P. ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ The Sulentic Law Firm, PLLC ❷ Tremain Artaza PLLC ❸ Winstead PC ❷

Employment Law - Individuals Blaugrund PLLC ❷

Wick Phillips, LLP ❶

Dentons U.S. LLP ❷

Locke Lord LLP ❶

Glast, Phillips & Murray, P.C. ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❷

Brousseau Naftis & Massingill A Professional Corporation ❷ Calabrese Budner, LLP ❷ Camille Milner, P.C. ❷ Cantey Hanger LLP ❸ Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❶ Cleaves Family Law ❶ Coker, Robb & Cannon, Family Lawyers ❶ Collins Law Group A Professional Corporation ❸ Connatser Family Law, PLLC ❶ Cowles & Thompson ❷ Cunningham Swaim, LLP ❷ Dawn E. Fowler PC ❶

Dunnam & Dunnam, L.L.P. ❶

Burns Charest LLP ❶

K&L Gates LLP ❷

Gillespie Sanford LLP ❶

Bogdanowicz Family Law PLLC ❷

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Fitzgerald Law ❶

Beal Law Firm, PLLC ❸

Dement Stern PLLC ❸

Holman Robertson Eldridge, P.C. ❷

Deary Ray LLP ❸

Balekian Hayes PLLC ❷

Energy Law

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Clouse Brown PLLC ❶

Bailey & Galyen ❸

Cruz Law Group P.C. ❸

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❷

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❷

Armstrong Divorce and Family Law ❶

Steinfield Employment Law, PLLC ❶

Frost Brown Todd LLP ❶

Braziel Law Offices, P.C. ❶

Albin Oldner Law, PLLC ❶

Cornerstone Law Group, P.C. ❷

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❸

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Albano Law, PLLC ❷

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC ❸

Family Law

McClure & Cross LLP ❶ Richard L. Adams Law PLLC ❸ Sidley Austin LLP ❸

Duffee + Eitzen LLP ❶ Edwin W. Davis, PC ❷ Epstein Family Law, PC ❶ Estes Thorne Ewing & Payne, PLLC ❶ Family Law Firm of Donna J. Smiedt ❸ Fuller Mediations ❶ Geary, Porter & Donovan, P.C. ❶ Godwin Bowman PC ❸ Goranson Bain Ausley, PLLC ❶ Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❶ Hargrave Family Law ❶ Jenny L. Womack P.C. ❶ Jody Lynn Johnson, P.C. ❶

Ronald L. Goranson ❷

Hutchinson & Foreman PLLC ❷

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❷

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

KoonsFuller, P.C. ❶

Sidley Austin LLP ❸

Kilgore & Kilgore PLLC ❷ Law Offices of Ed Cloutman ❶

Energy Regulatory Law

Law Office of Craig Jackson, PLLC ❶

Sorrels Ola ❷ Spencer Fane LLP ❸ The Law Offices of Shirley Baccus-Lobel, P.C. ❶ Tom Mills Criminal Law, PLLC ❶ Udashen Anton ❶ Vedder Price P.C. ❷ Werbner Law ❶ Westfall Sellers ❶ Winstead PC ❷ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

DUI/DWI Defense

Chris Lewis + Associates, P.C. ❷ David Burrows ❶

Education Law

Adams, Lynch & Loftin, P.C. ❶ Brackett & Ellis, P.C. ❶ Fanning Harper Martinson Brandt & Kutchin, P.C. ❷

Elder Law

Charles Kennedy P.C. ❶ Leu & Peirce PLLC ❶

Lyon, Gorsky & Gilbert, L.L.P. ❶ Rob Wiley, P.C. ❶

Squire Patton Boggs ❶

Sidley Austin LLP ❷

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Scott Gilmore Thompson ❸ Tanner & Associates, P.C. ❶ The Sanford Firm A Professional Corporation ❷ Tremain Artaza PLLC ❶

Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures & Television Bell Nunnally LLP ❷

Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Kinser & Bates, L.L.P. ❶ Law Office of Carol A. Wilson, PLLC ❷ Law Office of David S. Bouschor, II, P.C. ❶ Law Office of J. Kermit Hill ❷ Law Office of Michael P. Granata ❸ Law Office of Shannon R. Lynch ❶ Lewis, Passons & Darnell, P.C. ❶ Lisa E. McKnight P.C. ❷

Entertainment Law - Music

Loveless & Loveless, LP ❶

Bell Nunnally LLP ❷

McCathern ❷

Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP ❶

McCraw Law Group ❷ Navarrette Bowen, P.C. ❶

Blaugrund PLLC ❶

Environmental Law

Naylor & Naylor PLLC ❶

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❶

C Bishop Law PC ❶

Cantey Hanger LLP ❸

Nunneley Family Law ❶

Clark Hill PLC ❷

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❸

Employment Law - Management Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Baker McKenzie LLP ❷ Bell Nunnally LLP ❸

Clouse Brown PLLC ❶ Cobb Martinez Woodward PLLC ❸

Clark Hill PLC ❶

Condon Tobin Sladek Thornton Nerenberg PLLC ❷

Exall Legal Advisors, PLLC ❷ Gilberg Law, PLLC ❷

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP ❸

Guida, Slavich & Flores, P.C. ❶

Cowles & Thompson ❸ Decker Jones, PC ❸ DLA Piper ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❷

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Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Cantey Hanger LLP ❷

Cowles & Thompson ❷

Greenberg Traurig ❶ Hallett & Perrin, P.C. ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❸

Law Offices of Jim Burnham ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❸

S Deatherage Law, PLLC ❶

North Texas Family Lawyers ❶ O’Neil Wysocki Family Law ❶ Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson, LLP ❶ O’Toole Family Law ❸ Palmer Lehman Sandberg, PLLC ❶ Pruitt Law Group, PLLC ❷ Quaid Farish, LLC ❶ Quilling, Selander, Lownds, Winslett & Moser, P.C. ❷ Raggio & Raggio, PLLC ❶ Rivon Law Firm ❸

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Rule Law, PC ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷

Kessler Collins, P.C. ❸

Schlenker Law Firm ❷

Herman Law Firm ❸

Law Office of Mark A. Ticer ❶

Schneider Law Firm P.C. ❷

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom ❶

Schorsch & Associates PC ❶

Jan R. Newsom ❶

McKool Smith PC ❶

Scroggins Law Group PLLC ❷

Jones Day ❶

Michelman & Robinson, LLP ❸

Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP ❸

Katten ❶

Munck Wilson Mandala ❶

Keith Law Firm, P.C. ❷

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶

SMU Dedman School of Law ❶

Kennedy Attorneys & Counselors at Law ❸

Neil Rambin Law PLLC ❶

Sullivan & Cook, LLC ❶

Larry “Max” Maxwell Law Practice ❶

Nicolaides Fink Thorpe Michaelides Sullivan LLP ❶

Susan Vrana Family Law ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Peckar & Abramson, P.C. ❷

Teller Law Firm, P.C. ❷

Polsinelli PC ❷

Phelps Dunbar LLP ❶

The Julian Firm, P.C. ❶

Spencer Fane LLP ❸

Quilling, Selander, Lownds, Winslett & Moser, P.C. ❶

Silvestri Family Law, PLLC ❶

The King Law Firm ❶ The Law Office of Jason Nash, P.L.L.C ❸ The Price Law Firm ❶ The Webb Family Law Firm, P.C. ❶ The Wright Firm, L.L.P. ❶ Turner McDowell Rowan, PLLC ❶ Verner Brumley Mueller Parker PC ❶ Walters Gilbreath ❷ Wilson Lake & Savage PLLC ❶ Wilson, White & Doby, LLP ❸

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Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❸

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Badmus & Associates, Attorneys at Law ❸

Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP ❶

BAL LLP ❶

Tollefson Bradley Mitchell & Melendi, LLP ❶

Cowles & Thompson ❶

Wick Phillips, LLP ❶

Davis & Associates ❶

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP ❷

Eugene J. Flynn, P.C. ❷ Fernandez & Fernandez ❶ Foster LLP ❶ Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP ❶ Gupta & Wiora, P.C. ❷ Human Rights Initiative ❶ JMA Firm, PLLC ❶ John W. Lawit ❷

Dorsey & Whitney LLP ❷

International Mergers & Acquisitions

Miley & Brown, P.C. ❶

Shearman & Sterling LLP ❶

Harris Solutions ❶

Nayar & McIntyre LLP ❷

KoonsFuller, P.C. ❶

Reina & Bates ❸

Law Office of Alexandra M. Geczi PLLC ❷

Richard A. Gump, Jr., P.C. ❶

Law Office of Shannon R. Lynch ❶

Saenz-Rodriguez & Associates ❶

North Texas Litigation Solutions ❶

Sotelo Immigration Law Group PLLC ❷

Frost Brown Todd LLP ❷

Clouse Brown PLLC ❷ DLA Piper ❷

Perkins Coie LLP ❶

Akerman LLP ❸

Amy Stewart PC ❶ Brackett & Ellis, P.C. ❶ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Cokinos Young, P.C. ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Culhane Meadows PLLC ❸

Wick Phillips, LLP ❸

Health Care Law Bracewell LLP ❶

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❶ ByrdAdatto ❶ Clark Hill PLC ❷ Duane Morris LLP ❸ Farrow-Gillespie Heath Wilmoth LLP ❷ Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C. ❶

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Barnes & Thornburg LLP ❶ Brown Fox PLLC ❷ Burns Charest LLP ❶ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❸ Jones Day ❶ McKool Smith PC ❷ Passman & Jones, A Professional Corporation ❶ Phelps Dunbar LLP ❷ Polsinelli PC ❸

Litigation - Banking & Finance

King & Fisher, PLLC ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷

Polsinelli PC ❶

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❷

Thompson Coburn LLP ❶

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶

Law Offices of Kat Tidd, P.C. ❷

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Jackson Lewis P.C. ❶

First Amendment Law

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Cooper & Scully, P.C. ❶

Clark Hill PLC ❶

Foley & Lardner LLP ❶

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❶

Frost Brown Todd LLP ❷

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶

Baker McKenzie LLP ❶

Egan Nelson LLP ❷

Fisher Phillips LLP ❶

Insurance Law

Franchise Law

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❸

Information Technology Law

Littler ❶

Robert Byron Jackson ❷

Baker McKenzie LLP ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Winston & Strawn LLP ❸

Otteson Shapiro LLP ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❷

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❸

Financial Services Regulation Law

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❸

Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law

Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❷

Brown Fox PLLC ❷

McDermott Will & Emery ❶

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❷

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶

Labor Law - Management

Woods & Matlock, P.C. ❶

Alston & Bird LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Litigation - Antitrust

Calhoun, Bhella & Sechrest, LLP ❶

Goranson Bain Ausley, PLLC ❶

Turner McDowell Rowan, PLLC ❷

Foley & Lardner LLP ❷

International Arbitration - Commercial

McDermott Will & Emery ❶

The Wright Firm, L.L.P. ❷

Leisure and Hospitality Law

Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Mark E. Jacobs, P.C. ❷

The Julian Firm, P.C. ❶

Keith Law Firm, P.C. ❷

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP ❶

Duffee + Eitzen LLP ❶

VERDIN Law ❸

Johnston Tobey Baruch, P.C. ❶

Zelle LLP ❶

Ladik Law Firm PLLC ❶

Rothwell B. Pool ❶

Legal Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs

Winstead PC ❷

Connatser Family Law, PLLC ❸

Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson, LLP ❷

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶ McGinnis Lochridge ❷ Munck Wilson Mandala ❸ Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. ❶ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❸ Steinfield Employment Law, PLLC ❶

Sidley Austin LLP ❶

Frost Brown Todd LLP ❷ Godwin Bowman PC ❸ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ K&L Gates LLP ❶ Kessler Collins, P.C. ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶ McKool Smith PC ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Cowles & Thompson ❷

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Cozen O’Connor ❶

Passman & Jones, A Professional Corporation ❷

Labor Law - Union

Polsinelli PC ❸

Baab & Denison, L.L.P. ❶

David Allen Law Group ❷

Reed Smith LLP ❶

Estes Thorne Ewing & Payne, PLLC ❷

Dedman & Flick, PLLC ❷

Robert Byron Jackson ❷

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❸

DLA Piper ❷

Law Offices of Ed Cloutman ❶

Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP ❶

Dykema Gossett PLLC ❶

Lyon, Gorsky & Gilbert, L.L.P. ❶

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP ❶

Tanner & Associates, P.C. ❶

Thomas Kurth Arbitration, P.L.L.C ❷

Land Use & Zoning Law

Litigation - Bankruptcy

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Figari + Davenport, LLP ❶ Fletcher, Farley, Shipman & Salinas, LLP ❸ Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❷ Gravely P.C. ❷ Grotefeld Hoffmann LLP ❷ Harper & Bates LLP ❷ Hatten Law Firm ❷ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Hermes Law, P.C. ❸ Holden Litigation ❸ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Husch Blackwell LLP ❷ John J. Little Law, PLLC ❶ Jones Day ❷

B E S T L AW F I R M S ® 2 0 24 T E X A S E D I T I O N

Clark Hill PLC ❸

Shupe Ventura, PLLC ❷

Spencer Fane LLP ❸

Akerman LLP ❶

Bonds Ellis Eppich Schafer Jones LLP ❷

Winstead PC ❶

Busch Ruotolo & Simpson, LLP ❸

Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants

Condon Tobin Sladek Thornton Nerenberg PLLC ❸

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❷ Cobb Martinez Woodward PLLC ❶ Estes Thorne Ewing & Payne, PLLC ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Johnston Tobey Baruch, P.C. ❶ Koning Rubarts LLP ❶

Chamblee Ryan, P.C. ❸

Crowe & Dunlevy ❷ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❷ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Forshey Prostok LLP ❶ Fox Rothschild LLP ❷ Frost Brown Todd LLP ❷

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ K&L Gates LLP ❷ Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❶ Katten ❶ Kessler Collins, P.C. ❸ Locke Lord LLP ❸ McDermott Will & Emery ❶ McGuire, Craddock & Strother, P.C. ❷ McKool Smith PC ❶ Meadows, Collier, Reed, Cousins, Crouch & Ungerman, L.L.P. ❸ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶ Nicholas A. Foley ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ O’Melveny & Myers ❶ Perkins Coie LLP ❶ Polsinelli PC ❷ Reed & Elmquist ❸

Winstead PC ❶

Litigation - Environmental C Bishop Law PC ❶

Cantey Hanger LLP ❸ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Exall Legal Advisors, PLLC ❸ Gilberg Law, PLLC ❷ Goldman Law, PC ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ James PLLC ❶ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❷

Litigation - ERISA

Figari + Davenport, LLP ❶ Finston Friedman Fisher Law Group, LLP ❶ Hallett & Perrin, P.C. ❸ Holden Litigation ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Law Offices of Alan W. Harris ❶

Champion LLP ❷

Foley & Lardner LLP ❶

Ciccarelli Law Firm ❶

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶

Clark Hill PLC ❸

Greenberg Traurig ❸

Cole Schotz P.C. ❶

Hallett & Perrin, P.C. ❷

Cowles & Thompson ❸

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC ❷

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Fish & Richardson P.C. ❶

Huddleston Law Group PLLC ❷

Foley & Lardner LLP ❶

Jackson Lewis P.C. ❶

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❷

Jones Day ❷

Greenberg Traurig ❶

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶

Griffith Barbee PLLC ❸

Littler ❶

Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❶

Harper & Bates LLP ❶

Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann, LLP ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Lyon, Gorsky & Gilbert, L.L.P. ❸

Heptig Law Group, Ltd. ❸

Martin Powers & Counsel ❸

Hilgers Graben ❷

McCathern ❸

Hitchcock Evert LLP ❶

McGinnis Lochridge ❷

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❷

Hosch & Morris, PLLC ❸

Munck Wilson Mandala ❷

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶

Jones Day ❶

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. ❶

Reed Smith LLP ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❷

Reid Collins & Tsai LLP ❶

Litigation - First Amendment

Jones Delflache LLP ❸

Carter Arnett, PLLC ❷

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❸

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷

Klemchuk PLLC ❷

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Law Office of Steven Malin PLLC ❷

Robin Phelan Law ❶ Rochelle McCullough, L.L.P. ❶ Ross, Smith & Binford, PC ❷ Shearman & Sterling LLP ❶ Thomas Kurth Arbitration, P.L.L.C ❷ Thompson Coburn LLP ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Wick Phillips, LLP ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❶

Litigation - Health Care

Lumens Law Group PLLC ❶

Bracewell LLP ❶

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❷ Clark Hill PLC ❶

Litigation - Construction

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❸

Clark Hill PLC ❷ Cokinos Young, P.C. ❶ Cowles & Thompson ❷ Donald O. Pratt ❷

McKool Smith PC ❶

Duane Morris LLP ❷ Greenberg Traurig ❷

Michelman & Robinson, LLP ❸ Munck Wilson Mandala ❶ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❸

Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Miller Weisbrod Olesky LLP ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Polsinelli PC ❶ Spencer Fane LLP ❶ Thompson Coburn LLP ❸

Phelps Dunbar LLP ❷ Polsinelli PC ❷ Reed Smith LLP ❸ Rogge Dunn Group PC ❶ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❷ Steinfield Employment Law, PLLC ❶ Stewart Law Group PLLC ❶ Tanner & Associates, P.C. ❶ Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP ❷ Tremain Artaza PLLC ❶

Nelson Bumgardner Conroy PC ❷

Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Wick Phillips, LLP ❶

O’Melveny & Myers ❶

Wood Edwards LLP ❸

Passman & Jones, A Professional Corporation ❷

Litigation - Land Use & Zoning

Platt Richmond, PLLC ❷

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷

Litigation - Insurance

Polsinelli PC ❷

Litigation - Mergers & Acquisitions

Foley & Lardner LLP ❷

Brackett & Ellis, P.C. ❸

Richard Law Group ❶

Grau Law Group, PLLC ❸

Dykema Gossett PLLC ❶

Gravely P.C. ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❸

Holland & Knight LLP ❷

Griffith Davison P.C. ❶

Jones Day ❷

Hartline Barger LLP ❸

Law Offices of George Parker Young, PC ❷

Estes Thorne Ewing & Payne, PLLC ❸ Fisk Attorneys, P.C. ❶ Fletcher, Farley, Shipman & Salinas, LLP ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❷ Laird E. Lawrence Arbitration Services ❶ Law Office of Stephen K. Yungblut, PLLC ❶ Lovein Ribman PC ❶ McGuire, Craddock & Strother, P.C. ❶ McKenzie Mena ❶ Miller Knauff Law Firm ❷ Mira Blanton ❸ Munck Wilson Mandala ❷ Nassen Mediations ❶ Nixon Jach Hubbard, PLLC ❶ Padfield & Stout LLP ❷ Peckar & Abramson, P.C. ❶ Saunders, Walsh & Beard ❶ Scheef & Stone, L.L.P. ❶

Reese Marketos LLP ❷

Amy Stewart PC ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸

Wick Phillips, LLP ❶

Nicolaides Fink Thorpe Michaelides Sullivan LLP ❶

Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Winstead PC ❶

Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP ❶

Litigation - Labor & Employment

Tollefson Bradley Mitchell & Melendi, LLP ❶

Baker McKenzie LLP ❶

Baab & Denison, L.L.P. ❷

Zelle LLP ❷

Bell Nunnally LLP ❶

Litigation - Intellectual Property

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❶

Alston & Bird LLP ❶

Carter Arnett, PLLC ❷

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Clark Hill PLC ❶

Baker McKenzie LLP ❶

Clouse Brown PLLC ❶

BakerHostetler ❷

Cobb Martinez Woodward PLLC ❷

Barnes & Thornburg LLP ❶

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP ❶

Bell Nunnally LLP ❷

Crawford, Wishnew & Lang PLLC ❷

Bowman and Brooke LLP ❸

Diamond McCarthy LLP ❶

Brackett & Ellis, P.C. ❷

Slates Harwell LLP ❶

Caldwell Cassady & Curry ❶

Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC ❸

Sidley Austin LLP ❶

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶

Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP ❶

Underwood Law Firm, P.C. ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Buether Joe & Counselors, LLC ❶

Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP ❷

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❷

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❶ Skiermont Derby LLP ❶

Scheef & Stone, L.L.P. ❸

Burns Charest LLP ❷

Fanning Harper Martinson Brandt & Kutchin, P.C. ❸ Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC ❸

Carstens, Allen & Gourley, LLP ❶ Carter Arnett, PLLC ❶

Estes Thorne Ewing & Payne, PLLC ❶

Farrow-Gillespie Heath Wilmoth LLP ❶

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❷

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❷

Scheef & Stone, L.L.P. ❸

Fisher Phillips LLP ❷ Fitzgerald Law ❶

Ranking Tier Indicated With �

Johnston Tobey Baruch, P.C. ❶ K&L Gates LLP ❷ McKool Smith PC ❶

Litigation - Municipal D. Randall Montgomery & Associates, P.L.L.C ❶

Law Offices of Jim Jeffrey ❷ Messer, Fort, & McDonald ❷ Taylor, Olson, Adkins, Sralla & Elam, L.L.P. ❷

Litigation - Patent Alston & Bird LLP ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Baker McKenzie LLP ❶ Barnes & Thornburg LLP ❶ Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❸ Braxton Perrone PLLC ❸ Buether Joe & Counselors, LLC ❶ Burns Charest LLP ❸ Caldwell Cassady & Curry ❶ Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❷ Carstens, Allen & Gourley, LLP ❷ Carter Arnett, PLLC ❷ Ciccarelli Law Firm ❶

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Metro Rankings

Cooper & Scully, P.C. ❶

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❶

Magee Legal, PLLC ❶ McGuireWoods LLP ❷

Winstead PC ❶ Bell Nunnally LLP ❷

Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann, LLP ❶

Perkins Coie LLP ❶

Cowles & Thompson ❸

Kessler Collins, P.C. ❷

JAMS ❶

Polsinelli PC ❷

Fish & Richardson P.C. ❶

Krage & Janvey, L.L.P. ❸

John W. Hughes, P.C. ❷

Scheef & Stone, L.L.P. ❷

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❷

Shearman & Sterling LLP ❶

Greenberg Traurig ❷

McKool Smith PC ❶

Lacy Malone Steppick Ryder & Menefee, PLLC ❸

Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

O’Melveny & Myers ❶

Hitchcock Evert LLP ❶

Reed Smith LLP ❸

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Shearman & Sterling LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❷

Jones Day ❶ Klemchuk PLLC ❷ Law Office of Steven Malin PLLC ❷ Locke Lord LLP ❸ Lumens Law Group PLLC ❶ Magee Legal, PLLC ❷

Winstead PC ❸ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Litigation - Tax

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

MAXUS Legal PLLC ❸

Brusniak Turner Fine LLP ❶

McGuireWoods LLP ❷

Edwin W. Davis, PC ❸

McKool Smith PC ❶

Elliott, Thomason & Gibson, LLP ❷

Michelman & Robinson, LLP ❸

Foley & Lardner LLP ❷

Munck Wilson Mandala ❶

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❷

Nelson Bumgardner Conroy PC ❷

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸

O’Melveny & Myers ❶

Lan Smith Sosolik PLLC ❶

Patterson & Sheridan, LLP ❶

Meadows, Collier, Reed, Cousins, Crouch & Ungerman, L.L.P. ❶

Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Slater Matsil LLP ❶ Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC ❶ Winstead PC ❷ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Metro Rankings

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Litigation - Trusts & Estates Barkley T. Miller ❷

Cantey Hanger LLP ❶ Diamond McCarthy LLP ❶ Dunn Sheehan LLP ❷

Law Office of Edwin G. Bell ❷

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❸

Law Offices of Christopher Nolland ❷

Sidley Austin LLP ❶

Lawrence R. Maxwell, Jr. ❶

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Lyon, Gorsky & Gilbert, L.L.P. ❸

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP ❶

McMullen Mediations ❷

Winstead PC ❸

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. ❸

Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Ross W. Stoddard, III AttorneyMediator ❶ Silverberg Mediation ❶ Susan Z. Wright ❶ Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC ❶ Will Pryor Mediation & Arbitration ❷ Winstead PC ❶ Woods & Matlock, P.C. ❷

Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants Chamblee Ryan, P.C. ❶ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Cooper & Scully, P.C. ❶ Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP ❷ Mayer LLP ❷ Miller Weisbrod Olesky LLP ❸ Steed Dunnill Reynolds Bailey Stephenson LLP ❶

Cowles & Thompson ❷

Koning Rubarts LLP ❶

Dykema Gossett PLLC ❶

Law Office of Nathan K. Griffin ❶

Clement Speer ❷

Figari + Davenport, LLP ❶

Lindquist Eisenberg LLP ❶

Keith Law Firm, P.C. ❸

Grable Martin PLLC ❷

Locke Lord LLP ❶

Miller Weisbrod Olesky LLP ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Lonny D. Morrison ❷

Rasansky Law Firm ❷

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶

Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann, LLP ❶

Slack Davis Sanger, LLP ❶

Kessler Collins, P.C. ❶

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC ❸

Koning Rubarts LLP ❶

The Blum Firm, P.C. ❸

The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson, P.C. ❶

Lonny D. Morrison ❷

The Hartnett Law Firm ❶

Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann, LLP ❶

Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC ❶

Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❸ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❷

DeHay & Elliston, L.L.P. ❶ Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP ❷ Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❶ Lathrop GPM LLP ❶ Mayer LLP ❷ Shearman & Sterling LLP ❸ Thompson Coburn LLP ❶

Winstead PC ❷

Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs

Litigation - Securities

Frost Brown Todd LLP ❸

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❶ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❷ Burns Charest LLP ❸ Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❶ Farrow-Gillespie Heath Wilmoth LLP ❷ Figari + Davenport, LLP ❷ Foley & Lardner LLP ❷ Frost Brown Todd LLP ❷ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

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Baron & Budd, P.C. ❶

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❷ Kip Petroff ❷ Payne Mitchell Ramsey, LLP ❶ The Schmidt Firm, PLLC ❶

Aldous \ Walker LLP ❶

Guthrie Law Firm PLLC ❷ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❷ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❷ Baker McKenzie LLP ❷ Harris, Finley & Bogle, P.C. ❷ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hollimon ADR ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ K&L Gates LLP ❶ Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶

Murphy Mahon Keffler & Farrier, L.L.P. ❶

Wood Weatherly Trial Law, P.C. ❶

O’Melveny & Myers ❸

Mergers & Acquisitions Law

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❷ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Baker McKenzie LLP ❷ Bell Nunnally LLP ❸ Clark Hill PLC ❷

The Castañeda Firm ❸ Thomas Kurth Arbitration, P.L.L.C ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Wick Phillips, LLP ❸

Patent Law

Barnes & Thornburg LLP ❶

Dentons U.S. LLP ❸

Braxton Perrone PLLC ❷

Dorsey & Whitney LLP ❷

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❷

Dykema Gossett PLLC ❷ Egan Nelson LLP ❶ Exall Legal Advisors, PLLC ❶ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Jones Day ❶

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❸

DeGroote Partners LLC ❶

Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶

B E S T L AW F I R M S ® 2 0 24 T E X A S E D I T I O N

Glast, Phillips & Murray, P.C. ❶

McClure & Cross LLP ❶

Katten ❷

Gilbert Mediation Group ❶

Nonprofit / Charities Law

Van Wey, Metzler & Williams, P.L.L.C. ❷

Deborah Hankinson: Comprehensive Conflict Resolution ❶

Duffee + Eitzen LLP ❸

McClure & Cross LLP ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❷

Burdin Mediations ❶

Dorsey & Whitney LLP ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Turley Law Firm ❶

Mediation

Donna J. Harris, PC ❶

Natural Resources Law

The Law Offices of Tom Hall ❸

K&L Gates LLP ❷

Donald O. Pratt ❷

Taylor, Olson, Adkins, Sralla & Elam, L.L.P. ❷

Alston & Bird LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷

Bracewell LLP ❷

Messer, Fort, & McDonald ❶

Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs

Blackwell, Blackburn, Herring & Singer ❷

Winstead PC ❷

Law Offices of Jim Jeffrey ❶

Oil & Gas Law

Grable Martin PLLC ❷

Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants

Municipal Law

Locke Lord LLP ❸

Glast, Phillips & Murray, P.C. ❸

Thomas Kurth Arbitration, P.L.L.C ❸

Polsinelli PC ❶

Thiebaud Remington Thornton Bailey LLP ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Scheef & Stone, L.L.P. ❷

Barrett Daffin Frappier Turner & Engel, LLP ❷

Stinnett Law Group PLLC ❷

Litigation - Real Estate

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❸

Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law

McDermott Will & Emery ❷ Munck Wilson Mandala ❷ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ O’Melveny & Myers ❶

Carstens, Allen & Gourley, LLP ❶ Ciccarelli Law Firm ❷ Crowe & Dunlevy ❸ Fish & Richardson P.C. ❶ Grable Martin PLLC ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❸ Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. ❶ Harper & Bates LLP ❸ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Hitchcock Evert LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❷ Jones Day ❶ Jones Delflache LLP ❷ Law Office of Steven Malin PLLC ❶ Lumens Law Group PLLC ❶ Munck Wilson Mandala ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Polsinelli PC ❶

Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP ❸ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❷ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Slater Matsil LLP ❷

Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Bowman and Brooke LLP ❶ Brown, Proctor & Howell, L.L.P. ❶

The Basset Firm ❶

Law Office of Carmen S. Mitchell, LLP ❶

Waters Kraus & Paul ❶

Thompson Coburn LLP ❸

Law Office of Edwin G. Bell ❷

Whitten & Whitten, PLLC ❸

Thompson Law LLP ❸

Law Offices of Eric T. Stahl ❷

Wood Weatherly Trial Law, P.C. ❶

Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP ❶

Law Offices of Jeff Kobs, P.C. ❸

Touchstone Bernays, L.L.P. ❶

Law Offices of Laird & McCloskey ❶

Walters, Balido & Crain ❶

Lyons & Simmons ❶

Watson, Caraway, Midkiff & Luningham, L.L.P. ❶

Mathis & Donheiser, P.C. ❷

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP ❷

McDonald Law Offices ❷

Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs

Burt Barr & Associates, L.L.P. ❶ Charles A. Green Law Office, PLLC ❸

Altman Legal Group ❶

Cowles & Thompson ❶

Anderson Injury Lawyers ❸

Cunningham Swaim, LLP ❸

Baron & Budd, P.C. ❷

David Allen Law Group ❷

Ben Martin Law Group ❷

Decker Jones, PC ❷

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❶

Duane Morris LLP ❸

Brantley Pelley, PLLC ❶

Dykema Gossett PLLC ❶

Brooker Law, PLLC ❶

Fletcher, Farley, Shipman & Salinas, LLP ❶

Burt Barr & Associates, L.L.P. ❸

Hartline Barger LLP ❶

Clement Speer ❶

Hermes Law, P.C. ❷

Crain Brogdon, LLP ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Dale Williams Law Firm PLLC ❷

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Daniel Sheehan & Associates, LLP ❸

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❷

Ernest H. Cannon & Associates ❶

Law Offices of Brad Jackson ❶

Forshey Prostok LLP ❷

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP ❷

Freese & Goss, PLLC ❷

Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC ❸

Frenkel & Frenkel ❶

Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom ❷

Gresham Law Group ❶

McDonald Sanders, P.C. ❷

Naman, Howell, Smith & Lee, PLLC ❶ Sargent Law, P.C. ❷ Steptoe & Johnson PLLC ❶

Bowman and Brooke LLP ❸ Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❷

Reyes Browne Reilley ❸

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❷

Sommerman, McCaffity, Quesada & Geisler, LLP ❶

Clark Hill PLC ❶ Cobb Martinez Woodward PLLC ❶

Steckler Wayne Cherry & Love, PLLC ❶

DLA Piper ❶

Streck & Davis Law ❷

Duane Morris LLP ❶

Ted B. Lyon & Associates, P.C. ❶

Dykema Gossett PLLC ❶

The Benton Law Firm ❸

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP ❶

The Brown Law Firm ❶

Fee, Smith & Sharp, LLP ❷

The Dent Law Firm ❷

Godwin Bowman PC ❶

The Haslam Firm, LLP ❶

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❶

The Kettles Law Firm ❶

Guinta Law, P.C. ❷

The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson, P.C. ❶

Hartline Barger LLP ❶

The Law Offices of William Kenneth C. Dippel, P.C. ❸

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Van Wey, Metzler & Williams, P.L.L.C. ❶

Law Office of Bob Osburn ❸

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❸

Rasansky Law Firm ❶

Turley Law Firm ❶

Kip Petroff ❷

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Ralph C. “Red Dog” Jones PC ❷

The Simpson Tuegel Law Firm ❶

Keith Law Firm, P.C. ❷

Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law

Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

The Schmidt Firm, PLLC ❶

Jonathan D.F. Nelson, P.C. ❷

Shearman & Sterling LLP ❸

Hermes Law, P.C. ❶ Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❶ Markland Hanley ❷ Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC ❷ Mayer LLP ❷

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Metro Rankings

Miller Weisbrod Olesky LLP ❷

Perkins Coie LLP ❶

Winston & Strawn LLP ❷

Slack Davis Sanger, LLP ❶

Heather Long Law, PC ❷

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Parker Law Firm ❶ Powers Taylor LLP ❷

Greg Marks ❶

Frost Brown Todd LLP ❷

Nachawati Law Group ❶ Payne Mitchell Ramsey, LLP ❶

Hamilton Wingo, LLP ❶

McMahon Surovik Suttle, PC ❶

Miller Weisbrod Olesky LLP ❶ Montes Law Group, PC ❷

Aldous \ Walker LLP ❶

Chamblee Ryan, P.C. ❶

McCraw Law Group ❶

Privacy and Data Security Law

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP ❶

Higier Allen & Lautin, P.C. ❶

Foley & Lardner LLP ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Freeman Law ❶

O’Melveny & Myers ❸

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶

Frost Brown Todd LLP ❷

Thompson Coburn LLP ❸

Husch Blackwell LLP ❶

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❶

Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Greenberg Traurig ❶

Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❶

Guthrie Law Firm PLLC ❷

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶

Hamilton Vopelak P.C. ❸

Aldous \ Walker LLP ❶

Kessler Collins, P.C. ❷

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❸

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Flint Cooper, LLC ❷

Law Office of Clint Shouse ❶

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶

Greg Marks ❸

Law, Snakard & Gambill, P.C. ❸

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Hamilton Wingo, LLP ❷

Locke Lord LLP ❶

Jordan Monk Reber, PC ❸

Law Office of Michael F. Pezzulli, PLLC ❷

Maynard Nexsen PC ❷

K&L Gates LLP ❶

Miller Weisbrod Olesky LLP ❶

McDonald Sanders, P.C. ❷

Lan Smith Sosolik PLLC ❷

Payne Mitchell Ramsey, LLP ❶

McGuire, Craddock & Strother, P.C. ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❶

Slack Davis Sanger, LLP ❶

Miller Phelps LLP ❷

McDermott Will & Emery ❷

The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson, P.C. ❶

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶

Meadows, Collier, Reed, Cousins, Crouch & Ungerman, L.L.P. ❶

Waters Kraus & Paul ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷

Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants

Pope, Hardwicke, Christie, Schell, Kelly & Taplett LLP ❸ Powell Coleman & Arnold LLP ❶

Pratt Law Group, PLLC ❷

Cobb Martinez Woodward PLLC ❶

Reed Smith LLP ❷

Sidley Austin LLP ❷

Robin R. Dubas ❸

Starr Law, P.C. ❷

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC ❷

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC ❶

Stinson LLP ❸

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP ❶

Stutzman, Bromberg, Esserman & Plifka, P.C. ❷

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP ❶

Professional Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Winstead PC ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❷

Cowles & Thompson ❸ Gerstle, Minissale & Snelson ❶ Johnston Tobey Baruch, P.C. ❷

Daniel Sheehan & Associates, LLP ❶ Johnston Tobey Baruch, P.C. ❶

Metro Rankings

Niles Holmes PC ❶

Keith Law Firm, P.C. ❸ The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson, P.C. ❷

Walls Landry Baker & Oliver ❶ Wick Phillips, LLP ❷ Winstead PC ❶

Calhoun, Bhella & Sechrest, LLP ❸ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ The Wolf Law Firm P.C. ❶

Real Estate Law

Jones Day ❶

Elliott, Thomason & Gibson, LLP ❸ Farrow-Gillespie Heath Wilmoth LLP ❷ FisherBroyles, LLP ❸ Foley & Lardner LLP ❷ Frost Brown Todd LLP ❷ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Griffith Davison P.C. ❷ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

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Law Offices of Shawna L. Brown, P.C. ❷ Leu & Peirce PLLC ❸ Lindquist Eisenberg LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❷ Malouf Nakos Jackson & Swinson, P.C. ❶ McDonald Sanders, P.C. ❶ Meadows, Collier, Reed, Cousins, Crouch & Ungerman, L.L.P. ❶ Mincey-Carter, PC ❶ Phelps Dunbar LLP ❸ Silverman Goodwin LLP ❸ Staubus & Randall LLP ❷

Trademark Law

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Baker McKenzie LLP ❶

Securities Regulation

Buether Joe & Counselors, LLC ❷

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Bracewell LLP ❸

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Securitization and Structured Finance Law Alston & Bird LLP ❶

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Winston & Strawn LLP ❷

Sports Law

Munck Wilson Mandala ❷

Dykema Gossett PLLC ❶

Law Office of Nathan K. Griffin ❶ Law Office of R.J. Watts, II ❷

Technology Law

Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❶

Cramer Weatherbie Richardson LLP ❶

Law Office of Barbara McComas Anderson ❶

Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC ❸

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶

Commercial Law Advisors PLLC ❸

Lan Smith Sosolik PLLC ❶

Weeks Law Firm ❷

Bracewell LLP ❷

Coats Rose, P.C. ❷

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶

Munck Wilson Mandala ❷

Winstead PC ❸

Clark Hill PLC ❶

Jordan Monk Reber, PC ❶

The Hartnett Law Firm ❷

Akerman LLP ❶

Bell Nunnally LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

King & Fisher, PLLC ❶

Foley & Lardner LLP ❸

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶

The Graham Law Firm, P.C. ❶

A. Rick Hightower, Attorney and Counselor at Law ❸ Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷

Brown, Proctor & Howell, L.L.P. ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

The Blum Firm, P.C. ❶

Public Finance Law

Railroad Law

Guthrie Law Firm PLLC ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷

Petruska & Associates, PLLC ❸

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❷

Securities / Capital Markets Law

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Grable Martin PLLC ❸

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC ❶

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶

McCall, Parkhurst & Horton L.L.P. ❶

Glast, Phillips & Murray, P.C. ❷

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❷

Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Foley & Lardner LLP ❷

Frost Brown Todd LLP ❷

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Bracewell LLP ❶

Wick Phillips, LLP ❸

Elliott, Thomason & Gibson, LLP ❸

Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Project Finance Law Baker Botts L.L.P. ❷

O’Melveny & Myers ❶

Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P. ❷ Davis Stephenson, PLLC ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Tax Law

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Baker McKenzie LLP ❷ BakerHostetler ❷ Cantey Hanger LLP ❸ Clark Hill PLC ❷ David Coffin PLLC ❶ Davis Stephenson, PLLC ❶ Edwin W. Davis, PC ❷ Elliott, Thomason & Gibson, LLP ❶ Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP ❸ Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC ❸

B E S T L AW F I R M S ® 2 0 24 T E X A S E D I T I O N

Braxton Perrone PLLC ❷ Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Frost Brown Todd LLP ❸ Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. ❶ Harper & Bates LLP ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Heptig Law Group, Ltd. ❶ Hitchcock Evert LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Munck Wilson Mandala ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Richard Law Group ❶ Scheef & Stone, L.L.P. ❷ Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP ❸ Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC ❷ Winstead PC ❷

Transportation Law

Brown, Proctor & Howell, L.L.P. ❶ Cantey Hanger LLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Russell & Wright, PLLC ❸

Trusts & Estates Law Andrews & Barth, PC ❷ Barkley T. Miller ❷

Wick Phillips, LLP ❸ Winstead PC ❶ Wolfish & Associates, P.C. ❶

Venture Capital Law

Darrel A. Rice, Attorney at Law ❷ Munck Wilson Mandala ❶

El Paso Banking and Finance Law

Gordon Davis Johnson & Shane P.C. ❸ ScottHulse PC ❶ Taffy Bagley PC ❷ The Fields Law Firm, PC ❶

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Gordon Davis Johnson & Shane P.C. ❶ ScottHulse PC ❷

Commercial Litigation

Ainsa Hutson Hester & Crews, LLP ❸ Blanco Ordoñez Mata & Wechsler, P.C. ❸ Dickinson Wright PLLC ❷ Gordon Davis Johnson & Shane P.C. ❶ Kemp Smith LLP ❶ Law Office of David R. Pierce ❷ Mounce, Green, Myers, Safi, Paxson & Galatzan, P.C. ❶ Ray Peña McChristian, P.C. ❶ ScottHulse PC ❶

Bisignano Harrison Neuhoff LLP ❶

Windle Hood Norton Brittain & Jay, LLP ❶

Bourland, Wall & Wenzel, P.C. ❶

Corporate Law

Brackett & Ellis, P.C. ❷ Cantey Hanger LLP ❶

Ainsa Hutson Hester & Crews, LLP ❸ Gordon Davis Johnson & Shane P.C. ❶ ScottHulse PC ❶

The Fields Law Firm, PC ❶ The Goldfarb Law Firm, PLLC ❷

Criminal Defense: General Practice Dolph Quijano, Jr. ❶ Gary B. Weiser ❶ Jim Darnell, P.C. ❶ Joe A. Spencer Attorney & Counselor at Law ❸ Law Office of Luis Islas ❷ Law Office of Michael R. Gibson ❷ Stillinger & Godinez, PLLC ❶

Criminal Defense: White-Collar Dolph Quijano, Jr. ❶ Gary B. Weiser ❷

The Fields Law Firm, PC ❸

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❸

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Trusts & Estates Law

Appellate Practice

Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❶

Kemp Smith LLP ❶

Alice Oliver-Parrott, P.C. ❷

Banking and Finance Law

Leila S. Hobson PLLC ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

ScottHulse PC ❸

Beck Redden LLP ❶

The Goldfarb Law Firm, PLLC ❷

Bennett & Secrest, PLLC ❶

Gluth Law, LLC ❶

Alexander Dubose & Jefferson LLP ❶

Bo Nichols Law, PLLC ❸

Great Plains

Bracewell LLP ❶

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law Underwood Law Firm, P.C. ❷

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Hicks Thomas LLP ❸

Joe A. Spencer Attorney & Counselor at Law ❷

Sprouse Shrader Smith PLLC ❷

Hochglaube & DeBorde P.C. ❸

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶

Employment Law - Management

Family Law

Mounce, Green, Myers, Safi, Paxson & Galatzan, P.C. ❶

Moore, Lewis & Russwurm P.C. ❷

Financial Services Regulation Law Taffy Bagley PC ❷

Copeland & Rice LLP ❷ Flores Law PLLC ❸

Commercial Litigation

ScottHulse PC ❷

Cokinos Young, P.C. ❶

R. Byrn Bass, Jr. ❶

Jim Darnell, P.C. ❶

Kemp Smith LLP ❶

Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❸

Law Office of Cynthia Barela Graham ❶ Underwood Law Firm, P.C. ❶

Hogan & Hogan LLP ❶ Husch Blackwell LLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom ❶ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷

Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants

Shafer, Davis, O’Leary & Stoker, P.C. ❶ Underwood Law Firm, P.C. ❷

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❷ Parenti Law PLLC ❶ Pierce & O’Neill, LLP ❷

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❷

Baker Williams Matthiesen LLP ❷ Blank Rome LLP ❶ Bracewell LLP ❶ Crain Caton & James A Professional Corporation ❸ Duane Morris LLP ❷ Foley & Lardner LLP ❸ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❷ Greenberg Traurig ❷ Greer, Herz & Adams, LLP ❸ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Latham & Watkins LLP ❶ Liskow & Lewis ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Mayer Brown ❶ O’Melveny & Myers ❸ Paul Hastings LLP ❶ Porter Hedges LLP ❶

Porter Hedges LLP ❷

Shannon, Martin, Finkelstein, Alvarado & Dunne, P.C. ❷

Reed Smith LLP ❷

Sidley Austin LLP ❶

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❷

Roach Newton, LLP ❶

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ White & Case LLP ❷

Litigation - Bankruptcy

Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants

Rusty Hardin & Associates, LLP ❶ Schiffer Hicks Johnson PLLC ❷

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP ❶

Schneider & McKinney, P.C. ❷

Winstead PC ❶

Kemp Smith LLP ❷

Sprouse Shrader Smith PLLC ❷

Shipley Snell Montgomery LLP ❸

Winston & Strawn LLP ❸

Health Care Law ScottHulse PC ❶

Windle Hood Norton Brittain & Jay, LLP ❷ Gordon Davis Johnson & Shane P.C. ❶

Litigation - Labor & Employment

Blanco Ordoñez Mata & Wechsler, P.C. ❷

Cotton Bledsoe Tighe & Dawson, P.C. ❶

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP ❶

Underwood Law Firm, P.C. ❶

Simmons Hanly Conroy LLP ❷ Susman Godfrey L.L.P. ❷

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Houston

The Lanier Law Firm ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Andrews Myers, P.C. ❸

Mounce, Green, Myers, Safi, Paxson & Galatzan, P.C. ❶

Admiralty & Maritime Law

Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❶

Bracewell LLP ❶ Byman & Associates PLLC ❶

Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants

Blank Rome LLP ❶

Wright Close & Barger, LLP ❶

Diamond McCarthy LLP ❸

Yetter Coleman LLP ❶

Foley & Lardner LLP ❶

Burwell Nebout Trial Lawyers ❷

Zimmermann & Zimmermann, PLLC ❶

Forshey Prostok LLP ❷

Chaffe McCall, L.L.P. ❶

Arbitration

Kemp Smith LLP ❶

Mounce, Green, Myers, Safi, Paxson & Galatzan, P.C. ❶ Ray Peña McChristian, P.C. ❷ Robles, Bracken & Hughes, LLP ❸ Windle Hood Norton Brittain & Jay, LLP ❶

Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs

Alfonso L. Melendez, P.C. ❷ Boyaki Law Firm ❶ Law Office of Evelina Ortega ❶

Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants Dickinson Wright PLLC ❸

Mounce, Green, Myers, Safi, Paxson & Galatzan, P.C. ❶ Ray Peña McChristian, P.C. ❷ Robles, Bracken & Hughes, LLP ❶ Windle Hood Norton Brittain & Jay, LLP ❶

Real Estate Law

Ainsa Hutson Hester & Crews, LLP ❷ Blanco Ordoñez Mata & Wechsler, P.C. ❷ Gordon Davis Johnson & Shane P.C. ❶ Kemp Smith LLP ❸ Mounce, Green, Myers, Safi, Paxson & Galatzan, P.C. ❶ ScottHulse PC ❶ Taffy Bagley PC ❶

Tax Law

Gordon Davis Johnson & Shane P.C. ❷ Kemp Smith LLP ❶ ScottHulse PC ❶

Arnold & Itkin LLP ❶ Brown Sims ❶

Clark Hill PLC ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Cokinos Young, P.C. ❸

Baker McKenzie LLP ❸

Doyle LLP ❶ Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP ❶ Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith ❸

Bergman ADR Group ❶ Forman Watkins & Krutz LLP ❸ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❸

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❷ HFW ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷

Holland & Knight LLP ❷

Joyce + McFarland LLP ❶

Liskow & Lewis ❶

King & Spalding LLP ❶

Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard ❷

Law Offices of Platt Davis ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶

Meyer Orlando LLC ❷

Mark K. Glasser ❶

Phelps Dunbar LLP ❶

Matthiesen & Associates ❷

Renshaw PC ❸

McGinnis Lochridge ❷

Richard Gorman Law ❷

McGowan Arbitration and Dispute Resolution ❶

Royston Rayzor ❶ SBSB Eastham PLLC ❶

Metro Rankings

Natural Resources Law

The Fields Law Firm, PC ❶

Greenberg Traurig ❷ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❸ Howley Law PLLC ❷ Hughes Watters Askanase, LLP ❷ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Husch Blackwell LLP ❸ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Joseph G. Epstein PLLC ❷ Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❷ Law Office of Tom Kirkendall ❶ Liskow & Lewis ❷ Mayer Brown ❷ McGuireWoods LLP ❷ McKool Smith PC ❷ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Okin Adams LLP ❶

Meade Neese & Barr LLP ❷

Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP ❶

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❸

Porter Hedges LLP ❶

Patrick M. Flynn, P.C. ❷

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan ❶

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP ❶

Reed Smith LLP ❶

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Porter Hedges LLP ❷

S. Mayer Law, PLLC ❶

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP ❷

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan ❶

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. ❸

Radnofsky Mediation Services ❷

Sidley Austin LLP ❶

Antitrust Law

Reed Smith LLP ❶

The Law Office of Liz Freeman, PLLC ❶

Richard P. Flake PLLC ❶

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Sponsel Miller Greenberg PLLC ❶

Walker & Patterson, PC ❸

Susman Godfrey L.L.P. ❶

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP ❶

The Levin Law Group, P.C. ❸

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP ❶

Schechter, Shaffer & Harris, LLP – Accident & Injury Attorneys ❶ Stevenson & Murray ❶ Trahan Kornegay Partners LLP ❷

Jones Day ❶

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan ❷ Susman Godfrey L.L.P. ❶

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Bet-the-Company Litigation

Harris Hoss PLLC ❸

Winstead PC ❶

BoyarMiller ❶

Hartline Barger LLP ❶

Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Bracewell LLP ❶

Beck Redden LLP ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP ❷

Clark Hill PLC ❷

Hicks Davis Wynn P.C. ❸

Wright Close & Barger, LLP ❶

Cokinos Young, P.C. ❷

Hicks Thomas LLP ❶

Yetter Coleman LLP ❶

Doherty & Doherty LLP ❷

Alexander Dubose & Jefferson LLP ❷ Berg & Androphy ❷ Bracewell LLP ❷ Fogler, Brar, O’Neil & Gray LLP ❶ Gibbs & Bruns LLP ❶ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❸ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ King & Spalding LLP ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Reynolds Frizzell LLP ❶ Smyser Kaplan & Veselka, L.L.P. ❸ Susman Godfrey L.L.P. ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Yetter Coleman LLP ❶

Commercial Finance Law Bracewell LLP ❶ Mayer Brown ❷ Porter Hedges LLP ❶

Metro Rankings

Commercial Litigation

Hilder & Associates, P.C. ❷ Hogan Thompson LLP ❷ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ James Edward Maloney, PLLC ❷ Jones Day ❶ Jordan Lynch & Cancienne, PLLC ❶ Joyce + McFarland LLP ❶ Kean Miller LLP ❷ Ken Hughes, PLLC ❸ Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❷ King & Spalding LLP ❶ Kirk Law Firm ❸ Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶ Lapin & Landa, L.L.P. ❶ Law Offices of Michael L. Phifer, P.C. ❸

Adams and Reese LLP ❸

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP ❸

Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Mensing ❶

Liskow & Lewis ❷

Ajamie LLP ❷

Litchfield Cavo LLP ❸

Akerman LLP ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❶

Alavi Anaipakos PLLC ❶

Looper Goodwine P.C. ❷

Allen & Nunnally ❶

Manela Law Firm ❶

Andrews Myers, P.C. ❷

Mark K. Glasser ❶

Arnold & Porter ❷

Marrs Ellis & Hodge LLP ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom ❷

Baker McKenzie LLP ❷

Mayer Brown ❶

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC ❷

Mayer LLP ❸

Bankston & Associates ❸ Barry Conge Bond LLP ❷ Beck Redden LLP ❶ Berg & Androphy ❶ Berg Plummer Johnson & Raval, LLP ❷ Bissinger, Oshman, Williams & Strasburger LLP ❶ Blank Rome LLP ❷ BoyarMiller ❶ Bracewell LLP ❶ Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❷ Brannon Robertson Law Firm PLLC ❶ Brown Sims ❸ Buck Keenan LLP ❷ Burford Perry LLP ❶ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Cokinos Young, P.C. ❷ Copeland & Rice LLP ❶ Crain Caton & James A Professional Corporation ❷

McCollam Law Firm, PC ❶ McGinnis Lochridge ❶ McGuireWoods LLP ❶ McKinney Taylor PC ❸ Michael Hays Law, PLLC ❶ Michael Kuhn, Mediator ❸ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❷ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Parsons McEntire McCleary PLLC ❸ Phelps Dunbar LLP ❷

Preis PLC ❸ Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan ❶ Rapp & Krock, PC ❶ Reynolds Frizzell LLP ❶ Riley Law Firm ❷ Roach Newton, LLP ❶

Dow Golub Remels & Gilbreath, PLLC ❶

Schirrmeister Diaz-Arrastia & Brem LLP ❶

Drumheller, Hollingsworth & Monthy, LLP ❶

Schlanger Silver LLP ❸

Forman Watkins & Krutz LLP ❸ Frost Brown Todd LLP ❷ Gibbs & Bruns LLP ❶ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Giron Kirby Law Group, PLLC ❸ Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❶

Shepherd Prewett PLLC ❶ Smyser Kaplan & Veselka, L.L.P. ❶ Sponsel Miller Greenberg PLLC ❷ Steptoe & Johnson PLLC ❷ Susman Godfrey L.L.P. ❶ The Brown Law Firm LLLP ❶

Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❸ Coats Rose, P.C. ❷ Cokinos Young, P.C. ❶ Coulter, P.C. ❶ Fahl & Donaldson, PLLC ❸ Gibbs & Bruns LLP ❶ Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❷ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸ Jones Walker LLP ❷ Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❷ Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❶ King & Spalding LLP ❶ Lanza Law Firm, L.L.P. ❷ Litchfield Cavo LLP ❷ Manela Law Firm ❶ Mayer Brown ❸ Mayer LLP ❷

Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❷ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Jones Day ❶ King & Spalding LLP ❶ Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶ Latham & Watkins LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Mayer Brown ❶ McDermott Will & Emery ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Oaks, Hartline & Daly, LLP ❷ Porter Hedges LLP ❶ Reed Smith LLP ❸ Seyfarth Shaw LLP ❷ Shannon, Martin, Finkelstein, Alvarado & Dunne, P.C. ❸ Shearman & Sterling LLP ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP ❶

McCormick Landry Munoz, PLLC ❶

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP ❷

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Peckar & Abramson, P.C. ❶

White & Case LLP ❷

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP ❷

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP ❷

Porter Hedges LLP ❶

Winstead PC ❷

Richard P. Flake PLLC ❶

Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Ryman ADR ❶ Steptoe & Johnson PLLC ❷ Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP ❸

Criminal Defense: General Practice

Adamo & Adamo Law Firm ❷

West Mermis, PLLC ❶

Bennett & Secrest, PLLC ❶

Winstead PC ❷

Berg & Androphy ❶

Copyright Law

Boulware & Valoir ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷ Jones Day ❷ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Carmen Roe Law Firm ❷ Cogdell Law Firm, PLLC ❷ David R. Bires, Attorney at Law ❶ DeGuerin & Dickson ❶ Drumheller, Hollingsworth & Monthy, LLP ❶ Fazel Law ❸ Foreman, DeGeurin & DeGeurin ❶ Hanszen Laporte ❸ Hill Law Firm ❶ Hochglaube & DeBorde P.C. ❶

Winstead PC ❸

J. Gordon Dees, Attorney at Law, APC ❷

Corporate Governance Law

Johnson Johnson & Baer P.C. ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❸ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Jones Day ❶ Mayer Brown ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷ Seyfarth Shaw LLP ❸ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Jimmy Ardoin & Associates, PLLC ❸ Law Office of James Alston ❶ Law Office of Paul Schiffer ❶ Law Offices of Jed Silverman ❶ Mallett Saper Berg, L.L.P. ❶ Neal Davis Law Firm PLLC ❶ Quinones & Associates, PLLC ❷ R. Todd Bennett, P.C. ❷ Schneider & McKinney, P.C. ❶ The Law Firm of Andrea M. Kolski ❸

The Kim Law Firm ❶

Winstead PC ❷

The Lanier Law Firm ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Corporate Law

The Law Offices of Ned Barnett ❸ The Schaffer Firm ❶

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP ❷

Ajamie LLP ❸

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❶

Tyrone C. Moncriffe ❷

Andrews Myers, P.C. ❸

Zimmermann & Zimmermann, PLLC ❶

Graham Hill ❷

Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❶

Grant Harvey Law ❸

Weinstein Tippetts & Little LLP ❶

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❶

Welsh Law Firm, PLLC ❶

Greer, Herz & Adams, LLP ❶

West Mermis, PLLC ❷

Hall Maines Lugrin, P.C. ❶

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP ❷

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Cannon Law Firm PLLC ❶

Corporate Compliance Law

Porter Hedges LLP ❶

Schiffer Hicks Johnson PLLC ❶

Foley & Lardner LLP ❷

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❶

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP ❷

Daspit Law Firm ❸

Fogler, Brar, O’Neil & Gray LLP ❶

Andrews Myers, P.C. ❶

Pierce & O’Neill, LLP ❶

Rusty Hardin & Associates, LLP ❶

Fletcher Held ❶

Adams and Reese LLP ❶

The Law Offices of Patrick Zummo ❷

Daly & Black, P.C. ❷

Eggleston & Briscoe LLP ❸

Construction Law

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Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Baker Consulting ❶ Baker Williams Matthiesen LLP ❷ BakerHostetler ❸ Blank Rome LLP ❸

The Law Offices of Lisa K. Andrews ❷

Criminal Defense: White-Collar Adamo & Adamo Law Firm ❸ Bennett & Secrest, PLLC ❶ Berg & Androphy ❶

Bracewell LLP ❷

Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶

Gibbs & Bruns LLP ❶

Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❷

Locke Lord LLP ❷

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶

J. Lindsey Short, Jr. and Associates PC ❷

Cogdell Law Firm, PLLC ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Jenkins & Kamin, LLP ❶

DeGuerin & Dickson ❶

Porter Hedges LLP ❷

Drumheller, Hollingsworth & Monthy, LLP ❶ Fazel Law ❸ Flood & Flood ❶ Foreman, DeGeurin & DeGeurin ❶ George D. Murphy. Jr. ❶ Gerger Hennessy & Martin LLP ❶ Hanszen Laporte ❷ Hilder & Associates, P.C. ❷

Employment Law - Individuals Bruckner Burch PLLC ❶ Dentons U.S. LLP ❶ Gardner Employment Law ❷ Ken Hughes, PLLC ❷ Law Office of Dennis Herlong ❶ Oberti Sullivan LLP ❸ Rosenberg Sprovach ❶

Hochglaube & DeBorde P.C. ❶

Employment Law - Management

Jones Day ❶ Larry P. Urquhart ❷ Law Office of James Alston ❷ Law Office of Paul Schiffer ❶ Liskow & Lewis ❸ Locke Lord LLP ❷ Mallett Saper Berg, L.L.P. ❶ Neal Davis Law Firm PLLC ❷ R. Todd Bennett, P.C. ❷ Rusty Hardin & Associates, LLP ❶ Schaffer Kennedy Johnson & Mays ❶ Schneider & McKinney, P.C. ❶ Smyser Kaplan & Veselka, L.L.P. ❶ The Law Offices of Lisa K. Andrews ❸ The Poirot Law Firm, PLLC ❶ The Schaffer Firm ❶

BakerHostetler ❶

Blank Rome LLP ❷ Bracewell LLP ❶ Bruckner Burch PLLC ❶ Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❸

Crain Caton & James A Professional Corporation ❸ Dentons U.S. LLP ❷

Foley & Lardner LLP ❶ Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❷ Greenberg Traurig ❷ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Jackson Lewis P.C. ❶ Kuchler Polk Weiner, LLC ❷ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom ❶ Mize PC ❷

Muskat Devine ❶

Scheiner Law Group P.C. ❸

Porter Hedges LLP ❶ Reed Smith LLP ❶

Lindamood & Robinson, P.C. ❶ Lindamood Law Firm ❸ Myres & Associates, PLLC ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Schlanger Silver LLP ❶ Spencer Fane LLP ❶ The Coffman Law Firm ❸ The Haston Law Firm, P.C. ❶ The Law Office of Sam M. (Trey) Yates, III, P.C. ❸ The Law Office of Warren Cole ❶ The Royalls, P.C. ❶ Tindall England, P.C. ❶ Waddell Law Firm, P.C. ❶

Family Law Mediation

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Fullenweider Wilhite ❸

Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❶

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❶ Law Office of Norma Levine Trusch ❶

White & Case LLP ❷

The Haston Law Firm, P.C. ❷

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP ❷

The Law Office of Warren Cole ❶

Yetter Coleman LLP ❶

The Royalls, P.C. ❷

Zukowski, Bresenhan & Piazza LLP ❸

Energy Regulatory Law

Government Relations Practice Bracewell LLP ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Greenberg Traurig ❶

Caldwell Boudreaux Lefler PLLC ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷

Jones Day ❷

Mahendru, P.C. ❸

Law Offices of Jed Silverman ❶

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP ❷

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP ❷

Fisher Phillips LLP ❶

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶

Mayer Brown ❶

Sidley Austin LLP ❶

Elizabeth Pratt, PLLC ❶

Doug Murphy Law Firm, P.C. ❶

Mark K. Glasser ❶

Petry, Rosie & Sinex, Attorneys at Law ❸

Cozen O’Connor ❶

Monty & Ramirez LLP ❷

Law Office of Robert S. Hoffman, P.L.L.C. ❷

Law Office of Mitchell Ayer ❷

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❸

Clark Hill PLC ❷

DUI/DWI Defense

Law Office of Reginald A. Hirsch ❶

Law Office of Linda M. Glover ❸

O’Melveny & Myers ❷

Littler ❶

Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP ❸

Law Office of Norma Levine Trusch ❷

Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶

Oaks, Hartline & Daly, LLP ❶

Derivatives and Futures Law Reed Smith LLP ❶

Law Office of Diane St. Yves, PLLC ❷

King & Spalding LLP ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❶

Paul Hastings LLP ❷

Laura Dale & Associates, P.C. ❶

Jones Day ❶

Michael Byrd Law PLLC ❸

Zimmermann & Zimmermann, PLLC ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶

Kuehm Law Firm, PLLC ❷

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❸ Sidley Austin LLP ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Health Care Law BakerHostetler ❷ Bracewell LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❷

Environmental Law

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Amandes PLLC ❶

King & Spalding LLP ❶

Nichols Brar Weitzner & Thomas LLP ❸

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶

Schneider & McKinney, P.C. ❷

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Baker Wotring LLP ❸

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❷

Trichter & LeGrand, P.C. ❶

Oberti Sullivan LLP ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Education Law

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. ❶

Crain Caton & James A Professional Corporation ❶

Bracewell LLP ❷

Farley & Partners LLP ❷

Palmer Law PLLC ❶

Greenberg Traurig ❸

Patrick M. Flynn, P.C. ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Elder Law

Porter Hedges LLP ❷

Hogan Lovells US LLP ❸

Schaner Law Firm PLLC ❸

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❷

Mayo & Poland ❷

Seyfarth Shaw LLP ❶

Jones Walker LLP ❷

Shadow Sloan Attorney At Law ❷

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP ❶

Southerland Law Firm ❸

Law Office of Jerry W. Ross ❶

Spencer Fane LLP ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❶

Wright Abshire, Attorneys PC ❶

Stibbs & Co. ❷

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❷

Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP ❷

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP ❶

Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❸

Porter Hedges LLP ❷

Energy Law

Sidley Austin LLP ❷

Thompson & Horton LLP ❶ Law Office of Christina Lesher, PC ❶ Rapp & Krock, PC ❸ The Bentley Law Firm ❶ Upchurch & Yates, LLP ❷

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ King Benford Law Firm PLLC ❸ Marrs Ellis & Hodge LLP ❷ McFarland PLLC ❶ Patterson & Edquist ❶ Phelps Dunbar LLP ❷ Thomas E. Sheffield, Lawyer ❷

Sharon M. Mattox, PLLC ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Akerman LLP ❶ Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❶ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❷

Barbara K. Runge ❶

BakerHostetler ❶

Cannon Law ❷

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Beck Redden LLP ❶

Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❷

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❸ Conner & Winters, LLP ❶ Foley & Lardner LLP ❷ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Family Law

Carter Morris, LLP ❶

Bracewell LLP ❶

Chris A. Spofford, P.C. ❷

Caldwell Boudreaux Lefler PLLC ❶

Crain Caton & James A Professional Corporation ❸

Clark Hill PLC ❷

Dietrich Norsworthy LLP ❷

Crady Jewett McCulley & Houren, LLP ❸

Diggs & Sadler, PLLC ❸

Farley & Partners LLP ❷

Fullenweider Wilhite ❶

Frost Brown Todd LLP ❸

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❶ Ranking Tier Indicated With �

Radnofsky Mediation Services ❶ Scott Patton PC ❸ Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP ❸

Immigration Law BAL LLP ❶

Bates Immigration Law, PLLC ❶ Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❶ De Mott, McChesney, Curtright, & Armendáriz LLP ❶ Fong Ilagan, LLP ❶ Foster LLP ❶ Giron Kirby Law Group, PLLC ❷ Gonzalez Olivieri LLC ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❸ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸ Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❷ Law Office of Angelique Montano, PLLC ❶ Law office of Judy J. Lee, PLLC ❶ McLeod, Alexander, Powel, & Apffel, PC ❸ Nancy A. Falgout, P.C. ❶ Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. ❷ Powers Law Group ❸ Quan Law Group, PLLC ❶ Rushton Law Firm ❶ Sheridan Green Law PLLC ❷ Suárez Candler Law, PLLC ❶

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Metro Rankings

Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP ❸

Joseph Indelicato, Jr., P.C. ❷

Locke Lord LLP ❶

Hinton & Bailey LLP ❷ Jimmy Ardoin & Associates, PLLC ❸

Hicks Thomas LLP ❷ Holland & Knight LLP ❷

Liskow & Lewis ❶

Patrick M. Flynn, P.C. ❷

J. D. Bucky Allshouse, P.C. ❶

The Ezer Law Group PLLC ❷

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❸

McKool Smith PC ❶

Trillos Ballerini Law Firm ❶

Greenberg Traurig ❶

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶

Hicks Thomas LLP ❸

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Porter Hedges LLP ❶

Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❷

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan ❶

Littler ❶

Rapp & Krock, PC ❶

Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom ❶

Reed Smith LLP ❷

Monty & Ramirez LLP ❶

S. Mayer Law, PLLC ❶

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶

Sidley Austin LLP ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

The Law Office of Liz Freeman, PLLC ❶

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. ❶

Yetter Coleman LLP ❷

Information Technology Law Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Mayer Brown ❸ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶ Rick V. Bays ❷

Insurance Law Akerman LLP ❷

Beck Redden LLP ❶ Bracewell LLP ❶ Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❸ Copeland & Rice LLP ❶ Cornell & Pardue ❷ Cozen O’Connor ❶ Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith ❷ Giron Kirby Law Group, PLLC ❸ Hall Maines Lugrin, P.C. ❶ Kennedys ❷ Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP ❶ Litchfield Cavo LLP ❷ Locke Lord LLP ❶

Labor Law - Union

Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom ❶

Coats Rose, P.C. ❷

Mayer LLP ❷

Cokinos Young, P.C. ❶

Phelps Dunbar LLP ❶

Coulter, P.C. ❶

Serpe Andrews ❸

Crain Caton & James A Professional Corporation ❷

Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP ❶

Fahl & Donaldson, PLLC ❸

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC ❶

Gibbs & Bruns LLP ❶

Wright Close & Barger, LLP ❶

Eric H. Nelson ❶

Patrick M. Flynn, P.C. ❶ The Youngdahl Law Firm, P.C. ❷

Land Use & Zoning Law

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶

Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants Beck Redden LLP ❶

Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP ❶

Mayer Brown ❸

Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Latham & Watkins LLP ❶ Mayer Brown ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Reed Smith LLP ❸ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Winstead PC ❷

Law Offices of Platt Davis ❶

Winston & Strawn LLP ❷

Locke Lord LLP ❷

Litigation - Antitrust

Mayer Brown ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP ❶ Price Arbitration PLLC ❸ Reed Smith LLP ❶ Schiffer Hicks Johnson PLLC ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

International Arbitration - Governmental

Beck Redden LLP ❶ Berg & Androphy ❸

Fogler, Brar, O’Neil & Gray LLP ❷ Gibbs & Bruns LLP ❶

Greenberg Traurig ❶ Hartline Barger LLP ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷ Hicks Thomas LLP ❷ Jones Walker LLP ❶ Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❶ Lanza Law Firm, L.L.P. ❷ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Mayer LLP ❸ MehaffyWeber, P.C. ❷ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❷ Peckar & Abramson, P.C. ❶ Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP ❸ Reynolds Frizzell LLP ❶ Richard P. Flake PLLC ❶ Ryman ADR ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❶ West Mermis, PLLC ❶ Weycer, Kaplan, Pulaski & Zuber PC ❸

Jones Day ❶

Beck Redden LLP ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Copeland & Rice LLP ❶

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❷

Crain Caton & James A Professional Corporation ❶ Giron Kirby Law Group, PLLC ❸

GLipe Law ❷

Susman Godfrey L.L.P. ❶

King & Spalding LLP ❶

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❷

Yetter Coleman LLP ❶

Hogan Lovells US LLP ❶

Litigation - Banking & Finance

Jones Walker LLP ❷

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

J. Scott Sheehan, P.C. ❶

International Trade and Finance Law

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❶

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❶

Bissinger, Oshman, Williams & Strasburger LLP ❸

Bracewell LLP ❷

Sidley Austin LLP ❶

Labor Law - Management

Litigation - Bankruptcy Bracewell LLP ❷ Byman & Associates PLLC ❶

Blank Rome LLP ❷

Foley & Lardner LLP ❷

Bracewell LLP ❶

Forshey Prostok LLP ❷

Bruckner Burch PLLC ❶

Greenberg Traurig ❸

Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❷

Alavi Anaipakos PLLC ❶ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Baker Williams Matthiesen LLP ❶ Beck Redden LLP ❶ Blank Rome LLP ❷ Boulware & Valoir ❷ Bracewell LLP ❷ Cadwell Clonts Reeder & Thomas LLP ❷ Fasthoff Law Firm PLLC ❸ Fish & Richardson P.C. ❶ Garland Stephens ❶ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❷ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Heim, Payne & Chorush LLP ❶ Hicks Thomas LLP ❸ Hogan Lovells US LLP ❷ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

McAughan Deaver, PLLC ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Baker Wotring LLP ❷

Ajamie LLP ❷

Akerman LLP ❸

Litigation - Environmental

Shearman & Sterling LLP ❷

Price Arbitration PLLC ❶

Adams and Reese LLP ❸

Jones Day ❶

Hall Maines Lugrin, P.C. ❷

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan ❷

Litigation - Intellectual Property

Winstead PC ❷

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❸

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith ❷

Litchfield Cavo LLP ❶

Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom ❷

King & Spalding LLP ❶

Daly & Black, P.C. ❶

Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❸

Roach Newton, LLP ❶

GLipe Law ❸

Cozen O’Connor ❸

Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❶

Law Office of Kenneth Tekell Sr. PLLC ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❸

Cannon Law Firm PLLC ❶

Reed Smith LLP ❶

International Arbitration - Commercial

Bracewell LLP ❷

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Gibbs & Bruns LLP ❶

Trahan Kornegay Partners LLP ❶

Litigation - Insurance

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❷

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP ❶

Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP ❶

Yetter Coleman LLP ❷

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❶

The Clifford Law Firm, PLLC ❷

Wilson Cribbs and Goren, PC ❶

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❸

Kean Miller LLP ❶

Hartline Barger LLP ❶

Mayer Brown ❷

Phelps Dunbar LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Andrews Myers, P.C. ❶

Stibbs & Co. ❷

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❷

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Litigation - Construction

Litigation - First Amendment

Adams and Reese LLP ❶

Southerland Law Firm ❸

Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom ❶ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❸

Metro Rankings

Shadow Sloan Attorney At Law ❷

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❷

Greenberg Traurig ❸ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❸ King & Spalding LLP ❶ Kirk Law Firm ❷ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP ❶ Sharon M. Mattox, PLLC ❶ Susman Godfrey L.L.P. ❶ The Sher Law Firm PLLC ❸

Locke Lord LLP ❷ McGuireWoods LLP ❶ McKool Smith PC ❶ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❷ Polsinelli PC ❷ Reed Smith LLP ❶ Richard L. Stanley ❶ Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❶ Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. ❶ Smyser Kaplan & Veselka, L.L.P. ❶ Steele Law Group, PLLC ❷ Susman Godfrey L.L.P. ❶ The Lanier Law Firm ❸ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶ Yetter Coleman LLP ❶

Litigation - Labor & Employment BakerHostetler ❶

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Beck Redden LLP ❶

Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❷

Blank Rome LLP ❷

Winston & Strawn LLP ❷

Bracewell LLP ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Cozen O’Connor ❶

Bruckner Burch PLLC ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❷

Fisher Phillips LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Litigation - ERISA

Foley & Lardner LLP ❸

McGuireWoods LLP ❸

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Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❸ Crain Caton & James A Professional Corporation ❷

Dentons U.S. LLP ❷

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸

Marrs Ellis & Hodge LLP ❸

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC ❶

Elizabeth Pratt, PLLC ❷

Jones Day ❷

Moorman Tate, LLP ❶

Eric H. Nelson ❸

McAughan Deaver, PLLC ❶

Schlanger Silver LLP ❶

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP ❶

Fisher Phillips LLP ❶

McGuireWoods LLP ❶

Foley & Lardner LLP ❶

McKool Smith PC ❶

Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❶

Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs

Giron Kirby Law Group, PLLC ❸

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❶

Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP ❸

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Porter Hedges LLP ❷

Hicks Thomas LLP ❷

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan ❷

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❷

Reed Smith LLP ❶

Adams and Reese LLP ❶

Mithoff Law Firm ❷

Jackson Lewis P.C. ❶

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP ❶

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❸

Perdue & Kidd LLP ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Radnofsky Mediation Services ❶

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. ❶

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC ❸

Smyser Kaplan & Veselka, L.L.P. ❷

Bissinger, Oshman, Williams & Strasburger LLP ❸

The Boudreaux Law Firm, P.C. ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❶ Law Office of Dennis Herlong ❶ Littler ❶

Wright Close & Barger, LLP ❷

Smyser Kaplan & Veselka, L.L.P. ❶ Susman Godfrey L.L.P. ❶

Ytterberg Deery Knull LLP ❷

Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants

Brown Law ❷

Hampton & King ❶ Law Office Of Michael Y. Saunders ❷ McGehee, Chang, Landgraf, Feiler ❶

Sorrels Law ❸

Locke Lord LLP ❶

Yetter Coleman LLP ❶

Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom ❷

Litigation - Real Estate

Copeland & Rice LLP ❶

Berg & Androphy ❶

David A. Oliver Jr. ❷

Mize PC ❷

Bracewell LLP ❷

Forman Watkins & Krutz LLP ❶

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Buck Keenan LLP ❶

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❷

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❸

BoyarMiller ❶

Dow Golub Remels & Gilbreath, PLLC ❷

King & Spalding LLP ❶

Muskat Devine ❶

Foley & Lardner LLP ❸

Hoover Slovacek LLP ❸

Law Office of Kenneth Tekell Sr. PLLC ❶

Nichols Brar Weitzner & Thomas LLP ❶

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶

Nathan Sommers Jacobs, P.C. ❶

Liskow & Lewis ❷

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Jones Day ❷

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC ❶

Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶

McGuireWoods LLP ❷

Oberti Sullivan LLP ❶ Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. ❶ Patrick M. Flynn, P.C. ❶ Porter Hedges LLP ❷ Schaner Law Firm PLLC ❸ Seyfarth Shaw LLP ❶ Shellist Lazarz Slobin LLP ❶ Stibbs & Co. ❷ Stuart PC ❷ The Clifford Law Firm, PLLC ❶ The Scharfman Law Firm, PLLC ❷ The Youngdahl Law Firm, P.C. ❸ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❶

Litigation - Land Use & Zoning Blank Rome LLP ❶

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❷

Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy) Bracewell LLP ❶ Fletcher Held ❷

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. ❷

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP ❸

Litigation - Securities

Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP ❶

Ajamie LLP ❷

Berg & Androphy ❸

Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Blank Rome LLP ❸

Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs

Fletcher Held ❶

Olson & Olson LLP ❶ Thompson & Horton LLP ❷ Viada & Strayer ❸

Litigation - Patent

Alavi Anaipakos PLLC ❶ Arnold & Saunders, L.L.P. ❷ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Beck Redden LLP ❶ Berg & Androphy ❷ Blank Rome LLP ❶

Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ White & Case LLP ❶

Natural Resources Law Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ BakerHostetler ❷ Beck Redden LLP ❶ Bracewell LLP ❶ Caldwell Boudreaux Lefler PLLC ❶ Everard Marseglia, Jr., Arbitrator, Attorney, Counselor, Mediator ❷

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Pulaski Kherkher, PLLC ❶

Forman Watkins & Krutz LLP ❸

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❷

The Boudreaux Law Firm, P.C. ❸

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan ❶

The Lanier Law Firm ❶

Greenberg Traurig ❸

Reynolds Frizzell LLP ❶

Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❷

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶

Williams Hart, LLP ❶

Egan Nelson LLP ❶

Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Mediation

Latham & Watkins LLP ❶

Alice Oliver-Parrott, P.C. ❶

Law Office of Jerry W. Ross ❶

Litigation - Tax

Arnold & Saunders, L.L.P. ❶

McCollam Law Firm, PC ❷

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Bergman ADR Group ❶

McDermott Will & Emery ❶

Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❶

Cozen O’Connor ❷

Petry, Rosie & Sinex, Attorneys at Law ❷

Holland & Knight LLP ❸

Joyce + McFarland LLP ❷

Pierce & O’Neill, LLP ❶

John A. Townsend ❶

Mark K. Glasser ❶

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP ❷

Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶

Matthiesen & Associates ❶

Theodore R. Borrego, PC ❷

KPMG, LLP ❶

McGowan Arbitration and Dispute Resolution ❶

White & Case LLP ❸

Mayer Brown ❷ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Winstead PC ❸

Litigation - Trusts & Estates Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Ditta Law, PC ❶

Cadwell Clonts Reeder & Thomas LLP ❶

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❶

Copeland & Rice LLP ❷

Gus G. Tamborello P.C. ❶

Crain Caton & James A Professional Corporation ❸

Hartline Barger LLP ❸

Kean Miller LLP ❷

Oil & Gas Law Akerman LLP ❸

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❷

Richard P. Flake PLLC ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❷

Cardwell & Chang P.L.L.C. ❷

Clark Hill PLC ❷

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶

Porter Hedges LLP ❸

Boston & Hughes, P.C. ❶

BoyarMiller ❶

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❸ Radnofsky Mediation Services ❷

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Bracewell LLP ❸

Heim, Payne & Chorush LLP ❶

Oaks, Hartline & Daly, LLP ❷

Laminack Pirtle & Martines, L.L.P. ❶

Boulware & Valoir ❷

Greenberg Traurig ❸

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❸

Mark K. Glasser ❶

Crain Caton & James A Professional Corporation ❶

Fish & Richardson P.C. ❶

Locke Lord LLP ❶

James Edward Maloney, PLLC ❷

Yetter Coleman LLP ❷

Blank Rome LLP ❶

Latham & Watkins LLP ❶

Heard Merman, PLLC ❷

Fletcher Held ❷

Litigation - Municipal

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❷

Blizzard Greenberg, PLLC ❷

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan ❶

Mergers & Acquisitions Law

Hall Maines Lugrin, P.C. ❶

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP ❶

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP ❶

Arnold & Itkin LLP ❶

Gibbs & Bruns LLP ❶

Shearman & Sterling LLP ❸

Mark K. Glasser ❷

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Litigation - Mergers & Acquisitions James Edward Maloney, PLLC ❸

MehaffyWeber, P.C. ❶

The Brown Law Firm LLLP ❶

Metro Rankings

Spencer Fane LLP ❸

Bracewell LLP ❷

Cooksey, Marcin & Parecki, PLLC ❷ Henke Williams & Boll LLP ❸ Hicks Davis Wynn P.C. ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❷ Johnson, Trent & Taylor, L.L.P. ❶ Law Feehan Adams, LLLP ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❸ Smyser Kaplan & Veselka, L.L.P. ❶ Sprott, Newsom, Quattlebaum & Messenger ❷

Ranking Tier Indicated With �

Bracewell LLP ❶ Crady Jewett McCulley & Houren, LLP ❷ Egan Nelson LLP ❸ Everard Marseglia, Jr., Arbitrator, Attorney, Counselor, Mediator ❷ Foley & Lardner LLP ❷ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❶ Hicks Thomas LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Jones Day ❷ Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶

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Latham & Watkins LLP ❶

McKinney Taylor PC ❶

The Buzbee Law Firm ❸

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❷

Law Office of Mitchell Ayer ❸

McLeod, Alexander, Powel, & Apffel, PC ❶

The Gallagher Law Firm, LLP ❶

Andrews Myers, P.C. ❷

Liskow & Lewis ❶

MehaffyWeber, P.C. ❶

The Krist Law Firm, P.C. ❷

August Edward Shouse ❷

Locke Lord LLP ❶

Michael Hays Law, PLLC ❷

The Lanier Law Firm ❶

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Mayer Brown ❷

Mithoff Law Firm ❶

The Law Firm of Alton C. Todd ❶

BakerHostetler ❶

McCollam Law Firm, PC ❷

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❷

The Riddle Law Firm, P.C. ❶

BoyarMiller ❶

McDermott Will & Emery ❷

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

The Sher Law Firm PLLC ❷

Bracewell LLP ❷

McGinnis Lochridge ❷

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP ❸

The Webster Law Firm ❷

Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❸

Michael Byrd Law PLLC ❸

Radnofsky Mediation Services ❷

The West Law Firm ❶

Charles J. Jacobus ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Rhodes Humble LLP ❸

Williams Hart, LLP ❶

Coats Rose, P.C. ❶

Petry, Rosie & Sinex, Attorneys at Law ❶

Roach Newton, LLP ❸

Pierce & O’Neill, LLP ❶

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC ❶

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP ❸

Susman Godfrey L.L.P. ❶

Porter Hedges LLP ❶

Taylor, Book, Allen & Morris, L.L.P. ❶

Beck Redden LLP ❶

Reed Smith LLP ❶

The Akers Firm PLLC ❶

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❸

Sidley Austin LLP ❶

Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP ❷

Brown Sims ❸

Stogner Legal, PLLC ❸

Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP ❶

Bush Seyferth PLLC ❶

Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Patent Law

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP ❸

Adams and Reese LLP ❶

Foley & Lardner LLP ❷ Forman Watkins & Krutz LLP ❶ Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP ❷ Hartline Barger LLP ❶

Akerman LLP ❸

Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Arnold & Saunders, L.L.P. ❶

Womac ADR, PLLC ❷

Blank Rome LLP ❶

Wright Close & Barger, LLP ❶

Boulware & Valoir ❶

Yetter Coleman LLP ❶

McGinnis Lochridge ❷

Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❷

Bracewell LLP ❷ Cantor Colburn LLP ❷ Elliott & Polasek, PLLC ❷ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❸ McAughan Deaver, PLLC ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Metro Rankings

Weinstein Tippetts & Little LLP ❶

Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP ❶ Patterson & Sheridan, LLP ❷ Reed Smith LLP ❶ Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. ❶ Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP ❶ Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP ❷ Yetter Coleman LLP ❶

Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants Adams and Reese LLP ❷

Alice Oliver-Parrott, P.C. ❶ Beck Redden LLP ❶ Berg & Androphy ❷ Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ❷ Clark Hill PLC ❶ Cokinos Young, P.C. ❶ Copeland & Rice LLP ❶ Crain Caton & James A Professional Corporation ❸

Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner ❶

Hartline Barger LLP ❶ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hughes Watters Askanase, LLP ❸ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❸ Jeffrey H. Uzick P.C. ❷ Johanson & Fairless, L.L.P. ❶ Jordan Lynch & Cancienne, PLLC ❸ Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❷ Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP ❷

Aversano & Gold ❸

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC ❶

Bankston & Associates ❷

Taylor, Book, Allen & Morris, L.L.P. ❶

Berg & Androphy ❶

Weinstein Tippetts & Little LLP ❶

Black Law Group PLLC ❷

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP ❶

Blizzard Greenberg, PLLC ❶ Burwell Nebout Trial Lawyers ❶ Clark, Love & Hutson, PLLC ❷ Craft Law Firm, P.C. ❶ Daly & Black, P.C. ❶ Dax F. Garza, P.C. ❷ Doyle LLP ❶ Eiland & Bonnin, PC ❶ Fleming, Nolen & Jez, LLP ❸ Graham Hill ❷ Heard Merman, PLLC ❸ Jan Woodward Fox, PA ❶ Jill S. Pierce, PLLC ❸ John R. Gilbert P.C. ❸ Kherkher Garcia LLP ❶ Lange Law Firm ❸ Law Office of Daniel D. Horowitz, III PC ❷ Law Office Of Michael Y. Saunders ❷ Law Offices of Marcos & Associates ❷ Marks Balette Giessel & Young ❸ Matthews & Associates ❶ Mithoff Law Firm ❶ Morrow & Sheppard LLP ❶ Perdue & Kidd LLP ❶ PMR Law LLP ❷

Womac ADR, PLLC ❷

Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs

Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner ❶ Beck Redden LLP ❶ Craft Law Firm, P.C. ❷ Fisher, Johnson & Huguenard, LLP ❶ Graham Hill ❷ John R. Gilbert P.C. ❶ Mithoff Law Firm ❶ Sorrels Law ❸ The Ammons Law Firm ❷ The Brown Law Firm LLLP ❷ The Gallagher Law Firm, LLP ❶ The Lanier Law Firm ❶ The Leone Institute ❶ Vickery & Shepherd ❶

Cordray & Schneller ❸ Crain Caton & James A Professional Corporation ❶ Dow Golub Remels & Gilbreath, PLLC ❶ Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC ❷ Fizer Beck Webster Bentley & Scroggins ❷ Foley & Lardner LLP ❷ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❷ Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❶ Greenberg Traurig ❶ Greer, Herz & Adams, LLP ❷ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hoover Slovacek LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Inoff Law, PLLC ❸ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❸ King & Spalding LLP ❷ Liskow & Lewis ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Mayer Brown ❶ Moody Law Group PLLC ❶ Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❶ Nathan Sommers Jacobs, P.C. ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Orgain Bell & Tucker, LLP ❷ Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP ❷ Porter Hedges LLP ❶ Rapp & Krock, PC ❶ Richard Melamed, PLLC ❶ Roberts Markel Weinberg Butler Hailey PC ❶ Schlanger Silver LLP ❶ Seyfarth Shaw LLP ❶ Shannon, Martin, Finkelstein, Alvarado & Dunne, P.C. ❸ Spencer Fane LLP ❷ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP ❸ White & Case LLP ❸ William L. Shappley ❸ Wilson Cribbs and Goren, PC ❶

Williams Hart, LLP ❸

Winstead PC ❶

Project Finance Law

Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Bracewell LLP ❶

Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❷

Securities / Capital Markets Law Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ BakerHostetler ❸ BoyarMiller ❷ Bracewell LLP ❶ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ❶

Radnofsky Mediation Services ❷

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP ❸

Raizner Slania LLP ❶

Public Finance Law

Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶

Greenberg Traurig ❸

Locke Lord LLP ❷

Rhodes Humble LLP ❸ Rusty Hardin & Associates, LLP ❶

King & Spalding LLP ❶

Schechter, Shaffer & Harris, LLP – Accident & Injury Attorneys ❷

Lanza Law Firm, L.L.P. ❶

Simmons Hanly Conroy LLP ❶

Lapeze & Johns, PLLC ❸

Sorrels Law ❶

Law Feehan Adams, LLLP ❷

Stevenson & Murray ❶

Law Office of Kenneth Tekell Sr. PLLC ❶

The Alexander Firm, PLLC ❶

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP ❶

The Ammons Law Firm ❶

Liskow & Lewis ❷

The Boudreaux Law Firm, P.C. ❶

Mayer LLP ❶

The Brown Law Firm LLLP ❶

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Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. ❷

Law Office of Kevin Krist ❷

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❷

Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. ❸

Arnold & Itkin LLP ❶

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP ❷

Graham Hill ❶

MehaffyWeber, P.C. ❶

Rhodes Humble LLP ❸

Lapin & Landa, L.L.P. ❷

Germer PLLC ❶

Lightfoot, Franklin & White LLC ❶

Alice Oliver-Parrott, P.C. ❶

Donato, Brown, Pool & Moehlmann PLLC ❶ Forman Watkins & Krutz LLP ❶

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶

Cokinos Young, P.C. ❷

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Bracewell LLP ❶

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❷

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❷ Latham & Watkins LLP ❶ Mayer Brown ❷

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Railroad Law

SchaeperPC ❷

Jones Granger ❷ McLeod, Alexander, Powel, & Apffel, PC ❶

Real Estate Law

Adams and Reese LLP ❷

Porter Hedges LLP ❶ Schlanger Silver LLP ❸ Shearman & Sterling LLP ❷ Sidley Austin LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

Winstead PC ❸

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❶

Winston & Strawn LLP ❶

Gus G. Tamborello P.C. ❷

Securities Regulation Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Bracewell LLP ❷ Shearman & Sterling LLP ❶

Securitization and Structured Finance Law Bracewell LLP ❶

K&L Gates LLP ❷ Mayer Brown ❶

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Law Offices of W. Alvin Early ❷ Lawter & Lawter ❷ Locke Lord LLP ❶ Lorette Bauarschi, Attorney at Law ❸ Marjorie S. Schultz & Associates ❶ Moorman Tate, LLP ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Paige Ben-Yaacov ❶

Tax Law

Porter Hedges LLP ❸

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP ❶

Robert D. Colvin & Associate ❷

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶

Schlanger Silver LLP ❸

Baker McKenzie LLP ❶

Strohmeyer Law PLLC ❷

BoyarMiller ❷

The Bentley Law Firm ❸

Bracewell LLP ❶

Winstead PC ❶

Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❶

Wright Abshire, Attorneys PC ❶

Crain Caton & James A Professional Corporation ❸ Foley & Lardner LLP ❷ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❷ Holland & Knight LLP ❶ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP ❶ Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC ❷ Kirkland & Ellis LLP ❶ KPMG, LLP ❸ Latham & Watkins LLP ❶ Locke Lord LLP ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Polsinelli PC ❷ Shearman & Sterling LLP ❶ Sidley Austin LLP ❷ Spencer Fane LLP ❸ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶ Winstead PC ❷ Ytterberg Deery Knull LLP ❶

Technology Law Bracewell LLP ❶

FisherBroyles, LLP ❷ Haynes and Boone, LLP ❸ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP ❶

Trademark Law

Arnold & Saunders, L.L.P. ❸ Boulware & Valoir ❶ Bracewell LLP ❷ Elliott & Polasek, PLLC ❷

Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ BoyarMiller ❷

Gray Reed & McGraw LLP ❸ Latham & Watkins LLP ❷ Mayer Brown ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶ Vinson & Elkins LLP ❶

San Antonio Appellate Practice Clark Hill PLC ❶

Crofts & Callaway, P.C. ❶ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❶ Goldstein & Orr ❶ Jefferson Cano ❶ Langley & Banack, Inc. ❶ McCall, Parkhurst & Horton L.L.P. ❷ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❸ Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson, LLP ❶ Prichard Young LLP ❷ The Barrera Firm ❷ The Law Office of Jacqueline M. Stroh, P.C. ❷ Timothy Patton, P.C. ❶

Arbitration

Clark Hill PLC ❶ Donald R. Philbin, Jr., P.C. ❶

McAughan Deaver, PLLC ❶

Goode Casseb Jones Riklin Choate & Watson PC ❶

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❶

Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❸

Transportation Law

Johnson, Christopher, Javore & Cochran, Inc. ❶

Chaffe McCall, L.L.P. ❶ Doyle LLP ❶ HFW ❶

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP ❷ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius ❷ Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP ❸

Trusts & Estates Law

Andreason Law Firm, PLLC ❷ Baker Botts L.L.P. ❶ Bernard E. Jones ❶ Chamberlain Hrdlicka ❶ Clark Hill PLC ❸ Crain Caton & James A Professional Corporation ❶ Davis & Willms, PLLC ❶ Ditta Law, PC ❷ Farner & Perrin, LLP ❶ Fizer Beck Webster Bentley & Scroggins ❶

Kustoff & Sanders, L.L.P. ❸ Law Office of Thomas J. Smith ❶ Norton Rose Fulbright LLP ❷ Sparr Mediation ❷

Banking and Finance Law Bannwolf PLLC ❶

Branscomb Law ❷ Clark Hill PLC ❷ Dykema Gossett PLLC ❶ Jackson Walker L.L.P. ❶ Kennedy Sutherland LLP ❷ Lindow Stephens Schultz, LLP ❸ Norman & Oliver, P.C. ❶

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Dan Cogdell is, Simply Put, an Iconic “Texas Trial Lawyer” Over a career spanning more than four decades, Dan Cogdell has time and again proven himself to be a force to be reckoned with in high-stakes criminal defense cases.

Cogdell’s early and sustained success at trial—with a trial record encompassing nearly 300 jury cases, including some of the most high-profile and influential cases in state history—has garnered him a reputation as a battle-proven advocate.

Cogdell is skilled and comfortable in state and federal courtrooms both within and outside Texas and has represented clients charged with offenses ranging from murder to medical fraud to sophisticated white-collar crimes.

As one of Texas’ preeminent litigators, Cogdell has appeared in The Best Lawyers in America® publication since 1995 in Criminal Defense: White-Collar and his firm is ranked Tier 1 in Houston by Best Law Firms® for Criminal Defense: White-Collar for 2024.

“Dan is consistently professional, informative and 100% honest. Dan Cogdell is the only attorney we would ever recommend, period.”

- Former criminal defense client

Notable Career Achievements • Cogdell was the lead criminal defense lawyer in the team that successfully represented Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his impeachment trial in the fall of 2023. General Paxton was acquitted in the trial before the Texas Senate on all twenty articles of impeachment returned by the Texas House of Representatives.

• Cogdell secured the sole acquittal in all the Enron-related criminal trials. More than two dozen other Enron employees were either convicted or pleaded guilty to various offenses. Unlike Cogdell’s client, all others charged in those matters were sentenced to prison sentences ranging from a few years to decades in federal prison.

• Cogdell achieved a dismissal mid-trial in criminal charges brought against the head of logistics for Arkema following the chemical plant explosion in Crosby, Texas, during Hurricane Harvey. During that trial, the lead prosecutor in the matter conceded—after months in trial—that he was unable to prove Cogdell’s client’s guilt.

• Obtained an acquittal in the trial of alternative cancer treatment doctor Stanislaw Burzynski.

• A State District Judge in Jefferson County, Texas, hired Cogdell to defend him against felony charges of misusing his office. Cogdell ultimately secured the dismissal of all charges.

• Secured an acquittal of Judge John Peavy, Jr. in the Houston City Hall Scandal case.

• Successfully represented a member of the Branch Davidian sect following the siege of their compound near Waco, Texas. Cogdell’s role in that trial was portrayed in a five-part series on Paramount entitled “Waco: The Aftermath” in spring 2023. Cogdell was played by journeyman actor Giovanni Ribisi.

“Dan was prepared, tenacious and fearless.

He led the defense team and I owe my freedom to him. I am forever indebted.”

“II cannot overstate the importance of Dan’s role in my trial. I have no doubt that he was the key to my acquittal.”

- Former criminal defense client

- Former criminal defense client

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