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September 25, 2026
Litigation boutique Yetter Coleman LLP, a native Texas law firm, notched significant trial and appellate wins last year, including securing $41 million in attorney fees for IBM following a hard-fought appellate reversal of a $1.6 billion judgment and scoring a $70 million judgment at trial for an oil and gas company in a brine cavern trespass case that has held up on appeal.
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September 24, 2026
Norton Rose Fulbright's Texas litigation team secured a historic $1.375 billion settlement with Google over data privacy violations, while its corporate attorneys guided billions in energy and technology financings, cementing the more than a century old Houston firm's position as a legal powerhouse in the Lone Star State.
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September 23, 2026
Haynes Boone represented major companies in the energy industry in the last year, securing a $40 million judgment in favor of Polaris Engineering at the Fifth Circuit, winning a unanimous jury verdict for Shell in a contract dispute and reversing a $6 million judgment against American Midstream at the Texas Supreme Court.
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September 22, 2026
With 46 lawyers, all located in Houston, Beck Redden LLP racked up multiple notable wins over the past year, including a victory in the first jury trial in Texas Business Court and a finding by the U.S. Supreme Court that a suit against Hain Celestial Group and Whole Foods over allegedly tainted baby food was not properly removed to federal court.
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September 21, 2026
Houston-based Ahmad Zavitsanos & Mensing PLLC has in recent months successfully fended off $289 million in claims against energy company Kellogg Brown & Root LLC, cut damages owed by client Stonewall Gas Gathering LLC in a contract breach row down from a sought $205 million to a nominal $1, and secured a trial award of $78.5 million in a patent case against Samsung.
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September 18, 2026
From major deals to high-profile litigation, the firms named to Law360's 2026 Regional Powerhouses list are leading the way across 14 states. They deliver deep regional expertise and make a lasting impact at the state and local level.
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March 19, 2026
A Utah federal judge has denied a group of sports flooring distributors their request to reinstate and maintain their contracts, saying the plaintiffs likely failed to follow their contracts with the defendant manufacturer, undercutting allegations that their distribution agreements were unlawfully terminated.
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September 09, 2025
Norton Rose Fulbright has handled some of the biggest high-profile cases over the past year, representing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the state in securing a $1.3 billion settlement with Google and nabbing a victory for Phillips 66 in a long-running natural gas liquids asset dispute.
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September 08, 2025
Hicks Johnson PLLC is representing the city of Houston in a dispute related to a $1.8 billion water treatment plant expansion, and is also advising dozens of Texas vineyards in product liability litigation against dicamba herbicide makers Bayer and BASF, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2025 Regional Powerhouses.
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September 05, 2025
Bracewell LLP charted another growth year by continuing to focus on core practices including energy, finance and infrastructure, attributing its success in part to a focus on deep expertise in some of the Lone Star State's most prosperous sectors.
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September 04, 2025
Baker Botts LLP, a law firm with Texas roots dating back nearly two centuries, secured wins in high-profile energy cases last year, including the defeat of a wide-ranging patent dispute against Halliburton and a Winter Storm Uri victory for the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
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September 03, 2025
A native Texas firm, litigation boutique Yetter Coleman LLP racked up a series of wins last year for clients in the Lone Star State and beyond, including achieving a reversal on appeal of a $1.6 billion judgment against IBM, securing a dismissal in a billion-dollar oil and gas lease dispute, and defeating an antitrust suit brought by the Federal Trade Commission.
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September 02, 2025
Haynes Boone, an international law firm that got its start more than 50 years ago in Dallas, signed on recently as counsel to the new Texas stock exchange, represented Sabre Corp. in a $1.1 billion sale of its hospitality solutions business and obtained a complete trial court dismissal of a complex $1.3 billion subrogation action against Chiyoda International Corp.
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August 29, 2025
Law360's annual list of regional powerhouses reflects not only the work of exemplary firms, but also emerging legal trends in each state, from matters involving Colorado's growing life sciences industry, to an uptick in bankruptcies in Delaware, to the continued flurry of intellectual property litigation in California.
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January 16, 2025
A debt relief law firm in California reached settlements Thursday in two separate lawsuits that accused the firm of charging its clients for worthless services, a little more than two weeks after the cases were brought in federal courts.
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September 20, 2024
Baker Botts LLP's deep Texas roots allowed it to secure impressive courtroom and transactional wins over the last year, including successfully fighting off a more than $100 million trade secrets case against a Houston-based energy technology company and landing billions of dollars in transactional deals across the corporate and tax sectors.
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September 19, 2024
Beck Redden LLP has a powerful presence across all Texas courts, as demonstrated by its successful representation of Southwest Airlines in a pivotal case involving cyber insurance at the Fifth Circuit, and its ability to secure summary judgment for an ExxonMobil subsidiary in a breach-of-contract suit before the Southern District of Texas.
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September 18, 2024
Bracewell LLP has been helping clients navigate billion-dollar deals and other big projects, while securing major courtroom wins, since its founding in the Lone Star State just shy of eight decades ago, earning it a spot among Law360's Regional Powerhouses of 2024.
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September 17, 2024
Haynes and Boone LLP charted a 7% growth in headcount last year on the heels of several significant merger and acquisition deals, attributing its success in part to a focus on mutual support within the firm and keeping retention high.
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September 16, 2024
Vinson & Elkins LLP, a law firm with deep Texas roots that began growing with its Houston founding more than a century ago, played a role in multiple traditional and renewable energy deals, including a $26 billion merger between Endeavor Energy Resources and Diamondback Energy, while also advising Southwest Airlines in investments related to sustainable aviation fuel.
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September 13, 2024
The law firms on Law360's list of 2024 Regional Powerhouses reflected the local peculiarities of their states while often representing clients in deals and cases that captured national attention.
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August 25, 2023
Vinson & Elkins LLP has a strong Texas presence, which allowed it to successfully represent Woodside Petroleum Ltd. in its massive $43 billion merger with BHP Petroleum, and secure $280 million in damages on behalf of Antero Treatment LLC in the past year.
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August 24, 2023
Susman Godfrey LLP's Houston office was kept busy this past year, scoring courtroom wins in telecom patent cases with tens of millions of dollars on the line and successfully challenging federal medical billing regulations.
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August 23, 2023
Latham & Watkins LLP's growth in Texas has tracked the rise of the state's economy, and after opening shop in Houston 13 years ago, and now an Austin office, grew its presence in the state last year by 20%.
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August 22, 2023
Haynes and Boone LLP had an exceptional 2022, representing a swath of companies in more than six-dozen multimillion- and multibillion-dollar merger and acquisition deals in the energy and media sectors while simultaneously expanding its practice in the U.S. and beyond.