Texas Lawbook Law Firm of the Year

There were scores of multibillion-dollar corporate mergers and some landmark commercial trial verdicts in 2025. 

The year was filled with big stories. Dallas-based Dean Omar Branham Shirley achieved some huge successes in a series of jury trials against Johnson & Johnson in its talc powder litigation. U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn retired after 25 years on the bench and joined her husband’s law firm, Lynn Pinker. Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Hecht retired and joined Jackson Walker. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit enforced its conservative inclinations only to see many of its decisions reversed by an equally conservative U.S. Supreme Court. Gibson Dunn scored a $660 million verdict on behalf of Energy Transfer against Greenpeace in North Dakota. A federal grand jury in New York indicted Dallas-based Beneficient founder Bradley Heppner for securities fraud.