Baker Botts L.L.P. is a big name in the energy sector, acting for major clients including ConocoPhillips and Apache Corporation. Additionally, it is increasingly involved in high-stakes matters in the telecoms, real estate, and professional services sectors. Houston-based managing partner Danny David oversees the firm’s securities litigation work along with global litigation co-chair Bridget Moore in Washington DC., as well as co-chairs of the securities litigation practice Jessica Pulliam in Dallas and Houston-based Amy Hefley. Pulliam is handling two 10b5 cases for AT&T concerning the use of lead-clad cables in the telecom industry. Former head of litigation David Sterling recently worked with Hefley and up-and-coming New York partner Brian Kerr to defend Chicago Bridge & Iron Company in a notable class action case.

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Key clients

Hallmark Financial Services
Insperity, Inc.
Liberty Media Corporation
Gulfport Energy Corporation
Camber Energy
Charles Schwab Corporation
Chicago Bridge & Iron Company
Qurate Retail
Apache Corporation
McDermott International, Inc.
Tkach, Mark
ConocoPhillips
Waste Management, Inc.
MabVax Therapeutics, Inc.
Ormand, Ronald
Alpesh Kadakia

Work highlights

Represented Camber Energy, Inc. and its directors and officers in Ronald E. Coggins v. Camber Energy, Inc., et al., a 10b-5 putative securities class action arising out of allegations that Camber conspired with an institutional investor, Discover Growth Fund, LLC, to conceal share-count dilution associated with Discover’s conversions of Camber Series C preferred shares into Camber common stock.
Represented Apache, its directors, and its current and former officers in multiple derivative suits filed in the Southern District of Texas and in Texas state court. The federal derivative suits are noteworthy because of their novel federal question jurisdiction allegations; all three have been dismissed with prejudice.
Engaged to represent AT&T and its current CEO, CFO and its former CEO and CFO in two separate 10b-5 suits have now been filed in the District of New Jersey and in the Southern District of New York. More than $8 billion of shareholder losses are alleged in the suits which followed the Wall Street Journal articles regarding the use of lead cables in the telecom industry.