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Baker Botts L.L.P.

Main Office: One Shell Plaza, 910 Louisiana Street | Houston | TX | 77002
Phone: 713-229-1234 | Fax: 713-229-1522

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Baker Botts L.L.P. Reviews view all

Reviewed on May 02, 2023
Former Employee

5.Current Employee, more than 1 yearBest firm everClient Development RecommendProsEveryone from the partners to the most junior staff is friendly and eager to get stuff done. The work is challenging and interesting. I get to work from home.ConsI'm on call all the time, but I like my job and peers so much, I don't really mind. New HR leader is implementing very unpopular changes.

Former Employee

2021

Full time

Reviewed on December 03, 2022
Former Employee

Utilize all those non-attorney, non-billable managers you keep hiring to mitigate unproductive staff, instead of punishing everyone just to save a little money.

Exceptional practicing attorneys who are the best of the best, and who treat colleagues at all levels with respect and appreciation.

New HR leadership has changed the firm culture to one of mistrust and low morale among staff in less than one year. Apparently the leadership who enabled these changes believes hourly staff are misreporting time and don't deserve to use their earned time off.

The three middle-aged, straight, white males who call all the shots at this firm, because they don't care about people anymore (they used to). They don't practice law, so clients won't be exposed to them. If you are an employee, you will be affected by their punitive policies.

Practicing attorneys who bring in clients; dedicated and longtime, loyal staff colleagues.

Former Employee

2022

Full time

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Overview

Discover the Exciting Opportunity of Working at Baker Botts L.L.P.

At Baker Botts L.L.P., attorneys have the opportunity to join a leading international law firm that has a long, distinguished tradition of service to its clients, tracing its history back to the 1840s. As a full-service law firm, Baker Botts offers attorneys the chance to work with clients from all over the world in a wide variety of industries, including energy, technology, financial services, and more.

With offices around the globe, Baker Botts is uniquely positioned to provide attorneys with the opportunity to work on complex, high-stakes matters with clients in the U.S. and abroad. Baker Botts attorneys are part of a diverse team of experienced professionals, and the firm is committed to providing attorneys with the resources they need to succeed and grow.

The firm has a long history of staying at the forefront of emerging technologies, which gives attorneys the opportunity to stay ahead of the curve and work on cutting-edge cases. Baker Botts attorneys are encouraged to think outside the box, and the firm provides an environment that allows attorneys to be creative and innovative.

At Baker Botts, attorneys can find the resources and support they need to excel in their practice. The firm offers attorneys in-depth training and mentoring programs, as well as access to a network of industry experts and thought leaders.

In addition, Baker Botts provides attorneys with the opportunity to work with clients from all over the world, giving them the chance to gain a global perspective and cultivate valuable relationships. This provides attorneys with the opportunity to work on cases with significant international implications, and to develop a deeper understanding of their practice.

At Baker Botts, attorneys have the chance to use their skills and expertise to solve complex legal challenges for the firm’s clients. With the firm’s commitment to excellence, attorneys can be sure that their work is making a difference in the lives of their clients.

For attorneys seeking an exciting and rewarding opportunity, Baker Botts L.L.P. is the perfect place to be.

Experience the Power of Opportunity: Join Baker Botts L.L.P.


Practice Areas

Baker Botts L.L.P. practices law in the following areas and works with its clients to provide the best possible legal solutions.

Hiring Criteria

Baker Botts L.L.P. follows the set of hiring criteria outlined below.

Baker Botts places great value on incoming law students. The firm employs talented law students. The firm selects from the highest-ranking graduates amongst the topmost law schools in the country.

The firm has an established set of core attributes that they seek in candidates. These attributes include self-confidence, dedication and commitment to excellence. Other talents that can grow with the progress of time are creative problem solving and relationship building.

Baker Botts nurtures these core attributes through their training and development programs.

Pro bono

The firm has always followed a policy of giving back to the community from which it has gained so much. Helping those who need their services guides them in their commitment and each year, Baker Botts provides thousands of hours of pro bono legal services to many causes that include, civil right cases, death penalty cases, family law issues, constitutional law issues and community development.

The firm influences it lawyers to contribute to the firm's pro bono work and treat it just as they would other paying clients, providing them of their best services with full resources of the firm and the same level of commitment and excellence. It motivates its lawyers to consider pro-bono work as enriching as working for fee-paying clients.

It is estimated that the firm spends almost 50,000 hours on pro bono work each year. Changing lives forever, assisting in getting the innocent off death rows, putting children back in schools and giving families another chance at life.

In 2010 the firm reunited a Salvadoran woman, with her family, after nearly three years, after she escaped from the clutches of trafficking ring. Baker Botts managed to get her a visa and other requisite paperwork that helped her be back, safe and secure, amidst her family.

A center serving persons with mental retardation was put up for sale by the City of Houston. The firm successfully defended it, preventing the sale. It would have disrupted the lives of nearly a thousand mentally challenged people and their families.

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Baker Botts L.L.P. Awards and Recognitions Write a review

Baker Botts is time and again finds itself ranked amongst the top law firms of the country. Its lawyers also find mention and are recognized among the best practitioners worldwide.

Some of its recent awards and recognitions are as follows:

Ranked first amongst the best law firms nationwide, in energy, oil and gas by Vault for 2012.

Ranked first amongst the best law firms nationwide, in Clean Technology and Renewable Energy by Vault for 2012.

Ranked the best law firm in Texas by Vault 20102.

Who's Who Legal names Baker Botts as '2012 Texas Firm Of The Year.'

In 2011, the Business Committee for the Arts named it as one of the best companies supporting the arts in the United States.

In 2011 a BTI Client Service Survey cited Baker Botts as best in class A List member. The firm was one amongst 30 firms to earn this distinction based on a survey of general counsels at Fortune 1000 companies.

The Global Competition Review 2011 listed the firm as 'Recommended" for being one of the leading firms for government antitrust.

Baker Botts transaction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline was selected as the deal of the decade 2000-2010 by Infrastructure Journal in 2011.

Baker Botts Qurayyah Independent Power project was selected for creativity in securing multi-sourced financing for the project by Project Finance Magazine 2011.

Diversity Write a review

For the firm diversity is the means to weave a stronger fabric. It is committed to nurturing diversity at the workplace, bringing together its viewpoints, experience of the years and its competence, making the firm more resourceful, efficient and successful.

It is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and does not stand for discrimination in any form, be it based on race, color, ethnicity, gender, religion, nationality or any other category.

Its contributions to diversity were recognized in 2010 when it received the Minority Corporate Counsel Association's Thomas L. Sager Award for the South/Southwest Region for demonstrating sustained commitment to improve the advancement of minority lawyers.

For their unflagging diversity efforts Baker Botts is consistently ranked amongst the top law firms for diversity. Amongst specific feathers in its cap, are being ranked four times amongst the top 100 law firms for Diversity, receiving a perfect score of 100, for two consecutive years in 2009 and 2010 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Index and Best Places to Work Survey.

The Baker Botts Global Women's Forum, established to foster networking, mentoring and professional development among women at the firm, has four objectives, recruitment, retention, development and promotion of women lawyers.

Summer associate program

The Baker Botts Summer Associate program creates a factual working atmosphere for the associates who work under the supervision of experienced lawyers, guided by a strong mentoring program. A chosen team of partners and associates advise, guide and offer critiques of the work done, ensuring that the associates are exposed to more people and practice areas and get an idea of what Baker Botts is all about.

A unique feature of the program is the Baker Weekend hosted by the firm that brings summer associates and lawyers from each of its six offices within the country and gets them to interact with one another in an environment that helps build and strengthen relationships across the firm.

During the weekend events include panel discussions, presentations and detailed sessions specific to the department that provide valuable insight into the firm's traditions, practices and management.

A much looked forward to highlight of the Baker Weekend is a keynote address by the Honorable James A. Baker III, the 61st Secretary of State of America and Senior partner at the firm.

Summer Associates earn competitive weekly salaries.

Working for the Baker Botts L.L.P.

Lawyers at Baker Botts are skilful, accomplished and expected to be proficient in their specific skills. They must be able to apply their skills to further the firm's reputation and excel in delivering legal services of the highest quality and excellence in consonance with their client's most complex business issues.

Lawyers are providing with engaging work and entrusted with responsibility almost from the first day of work. Lawyers can expect to work in a dynamic global environment, where the highest professional and ethical standards are maintained.

New lawyers can advance their careers through on-the-job training, a healthy mentoring program, internal and external professional development opportunities are provided to the new recruits.

Apart from work the firm encourages its lawyers to a have life of their own outside of the workplace, be it pursuing a hobby, performing community service or just spending time with the family.

The firm has a history that goes back 170 years, of glorious accomplishment and proud heritage and would like to see its lawyers add to the firms standing and stature. The firm is proud of its clients and its values and culture are very important to them.

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