Baker Botts has added ex-Boies Schiller Flexner partner Ben Love to its Houston office, where he is a litigation partner with a focus on international disputes.
The move is a homecoming for Love, a Texas native who most recently worked out of Boies Schiller’s New York and Washington D.C. offices.
“I am thrilled about the opportunity to return to my home state of Texas to join Baker Botts, the ideal platform to service my clients’ dispute resolution and risk-management needs,” Love said in the firm’s announcement. “The firm’s focus on energy and technology, two increasingly converging industries, coincides perfectly with my experience and skillset. I look forward to collaborating with the firm’s talented team of lawyers to ensure exceptional outcomes for clients in their most complex and important legal and business challenges.”
Love’s résumé includes representing clients in more than 50 high-profile commercial and investment disputes across a variety of industries. Love is regarded as a global leader in international arbitration and public international law, the announcement says, making him an “ideal fit,” Baker Botts’ Managing Partner Danny David said.
Love’s experience will be “invaluable” and his impact will be immediately felt, added Johannes Koepp, global co-head of Baker Botts’ international disputes group.
“We have followed Ben’s amazing successes for years and are absolutely thrilled to welcome him to the firm,” Koepp said.
Outside of his litigation practice, Love serves on the American Society of International Law’s executive council and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration. He also has taught international investment law and arbitration at Brooklyn Law School.
Love obtained his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin. He also studied global economic law at the Université de Paris I Panthéon–Sorbonne.
Baker Botts also announced the addition of Edward Duffy to its litigation department as an antitrust partner in the Washington D.C. office. Duffy, a former Texas lawyer, joins Baker Botts from the U.S. Department of Justice in D.C., where he was a senior trial attorney. Before his stint in public service, Duffy was a partner at Reed Smith and an associate at K&L Gates and Vinson and Elkins, — all in Houston. At the DOJ, Duffy served as lead trial lawyer in the government’s challenge to the JetBlue-Spirit merger and he was lead counsel in the DOJ’s monopolization case against Visa.
“Ed is in the strategic bullseye of our standout global Antitrust practice,” David said. “His extensive experience in government-related litigation will greatly complement our elite team’s industry-leading capabilities.
Duffy earned his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University.