Description Baker Botts is a Lone Star legal legend. The law firm's history stretches back to 1840, when founding partner Peter Gray was admitted to the bar of the Republic of Texas. The firm became Baker & Botts after Walter Browne Botts and James Addison Baker (great-grandfather of former US Secretary of State and current partner James A. Baker III) joined the partnership. The firm has some 725 lawyers in about a dozen offices worldwide. Over the years Baker Botts has represented numerous clients from the energy industry, including Exxon Mobil and Halliburton. The firm practices in such areas as corporate, intellectual property, and tax law.
Baker Botts has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 162 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Baker Botts employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Legal industry (3.8 stars).
Overall, 51% of employees would recommend working at Baker Botts to a friend. This is based on 162 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
68% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Baker Botts as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Baker Botts.