If ranking at the top of The Texas Lawbook’s deal lists pisses off a few lawyers at Big Law firms in Texas, Kevin Henderson can live with that. In a way, he planned on it.
He closed 30 transactions last year in an M&A space most of them wouldn’t bother with, creating a space of his own with an unusual firm structured in an unusual way for an unusual market. Totaled together, his deals were valued at a notch below $200 million. The largest was $60 million. The smallest was … well, small.
His firm, SMB Law Group, is self-described as a “boutique, remote-first law firm focusing on small and medium-sized business mergers and acquisitions for clients in all 50 U.S. states.” That, in itself, takes some explaining.
Co-founded in 2022 with two other Big Law refugees, SMB is small and growing. Its headquarters is in the nearby Dallas suburb of Richardson and its website lists five partners. But that’s just the beginning.
“We’re built on social media,” says Henderson. “And that is by design.”
Actually, it’s more than that. SMB Law Group — in its origins, structure, market and practical everyday reality — is a creature of LinkedIn, Twitter (now X), and just about any other social media vehicle a small business or entrepreneur is likely to encounter. Sure, it’s a method of marketing that allows the firm a larger presence than its numbers, but there’s method in the relentless online madness that is core to the development of the firm and Henderson’s practice.
Henderson is the only partner based in Texas. His co-founding partner, Eric Pacifici —though licensed in Texas — lives in Florida. Partner Eli Albrecht lives on a farm in western Maryland and the firm’s most recent partner, Jake Parsley, practices in Minnesota. Sam Rosati, the firm’s third co-founding partner, operates as a business manager and owns an investment firm. Their firm includes roughly a dozen full-time employees, including back-office operations that reside between Argentina and the Philippines.
They are everywhere because their clients are.
“We’ve managed to tap into the ETA community,” Henderson explains, referring to Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition, one of the fastest-growing paths to ownership for small-to-middle market businesses.
The term is credited to Irving Grousbeck, who is said to have coined it in 1983 while a professor at Harvard Business School. Though dormant for the next 30 years, the concept has been reborn in the form of small-cap search funds that helped fund budding entrepreneurs buy small businesses whose owners were aging out.
But spurred by Small Business Administration loans allowing the acquisition of small businesses, the concept has exploded within the younger entrepreneurial class to become a full-blown community of enthusiastic business grads, military veterans and jaded investment managers yearning to be free from bonuses tagged to personality instead of performance, dismissive investment managers and late-night phone calls for emergencies that are not.
“Our typical clients are corporate refugees who’ve earned their MBA and worked at McKinsey, BlackRock or Goldman Sachs for a few years and are sick of the grind,” said Henderson. “They’ve saved some money and look for a HVAC company or a roofing company where they can build the business and a platform to start acquiring other businesses.”
When asked to be specific, he cites a retired Navy SEAL who left the military and used his GI Bill to attend a prestigious business school. The veteran soured on his time at Goldman Sachs and used his business contacts to purchase a 123-year-old lumber yard in upstate New York.
“He just liked the idea of setting his own goals and being his own boss,” Henderson says.
The same could be said of Henderson and his co-founders. Like many corporate law startup firms, they each carry Big Law resumes, from their law schools — Michigan, Duke and Virginia — to the firms where they built their expertise: Henderson (Cravath, Cooley, Baker Botts and Winston); Pacifici (Kirkland, Gibson Dunn, Morrison & Foerster and Baker Botts); Rosati (Foley & Lardner).
Thus, tapping into the ETA movement was not only fortuitous; it was organic, a twining of business opportunity and entrepreneurial DNA, as Henderson describes it.
“It was Eric (Pacifici), actually, that brought the ETA movement to my attention,” said Henderson. The two had been summer interns together at Baker Botts in Dallas during their law school days and have been friends ever since. “He’s the real social media person in our firm.”
A quick Google search reveals just how ubiquitous ETA ventures have become. Not only is it now taught — often in short-course DIY form at prestigious institutions like Wharton and Harvard and Kellogg — but it is widely recognized as a major piece of the estimated $84 trillion transfer of wealth taking place over the next two decades as prosperous baby boomers and their families age and cash out. And in the era of the internet’s global village the sense of community among the new generation of entrepreneurs is both visceral and digital.
Henderson and his partners get that. Using their online presence in the way an older generation used Kiwanis Clubs and Rotary luncheons to identify themselves as serious players in the community, they have forged a client base that actualizes their website brag of operating in “all 50 U.S. states.” For instance, while many names on Henderson’s 2023 client list can be found in the usual Texas cities and towns – (San Antonio, Fort Worth, Lakeway) – they also hail from Charleston, S.C., Middletown, Conn., Germantown, Tenn. and Covina, Calif.
As a result, the firm has been quick to respond in scale, at first aided by contract relationships with lawyers, but of late by hiring associates who fit into its emerging culture.
How do they do their hiring? Online, of course.
“Recently, we decided to hire someone, so we sent out a Tweet. We ended up with something like 200 applications within two hours or so,” Henderson said. “And, of course, a lot of them were currently working in big law firms.”
Often, the firm’s online presence turns tactile. As in any successful firm, client relationships become personal, and Henderson finds himself developing friendships across the community with which he now identifies.
Henderson grew up in Utah. His father was a lawyer who, as he remembers it, didn’t hold entrepreneurs in high regard.
“When he used the term ‘entrepreneur’ he let the word roll out slowly … like an insult,” Henderson recalls. Does he now identify himself as an entrepreneur — a kind of soul mate with his entrepreneur clients?
“A hundred percent,” Henderson snaps back.
“Just recently I went to Utah for a Happy Hour,” said Henderson. It was an ETA event that sounded like fun in his old home state. He also went on a journey to Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya with a group from the ETA community.
“It was a bucket list thing for one of the guys we know, and it sounded like something worth doing,” Henderson said.
As for his presence atop the Lawbook’s list of dealmakers came as no surprise to Henderson. He admits, quite frankly, that he envisioned as much when he began submitting his deals. It’s not exactly a lawyer thing to think about.
But Kevin Henderson is a lawyer who happens to be a hell of an entrepreneur who has found his own remarkable niche.
Dealmakers in Texas
Dealmakers in Texas
| Name (Office) | Firm | Count | Value | Gender | Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agarwal, Kris | Willkie Farr | 1 | 189 | Male | Houston |
| Alexander, Alan | Vinson & Elkins | 2 | 75 | Male | Houston |
| Ali, Elizabeth | Morgan Lewis | 1 | - | Female | Houston |
| Allison, Daniel | Sidley Austin | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Anderson, Lauren A. | Latham & Watkins | 5 | 2,891 | Female | Houston |
| Anderson, Will | Bracewell | 3 | 3,841 | Male | Houston |
| Arora, Shubi | Kirkland & Ellis | 6 | 350 | Male | Houston |
| Bacon, Douglas | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | 1,100 | Male | Houston |
| Balduzzi, Francisco | Womble Bond Dickinson | 1 | 106 | Male | Houston |
| Balestri, Ray | Bell Nunnally | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Ball, Erin | McGuireWoods | 1 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Barron, Benji | Vinson & Elkins | 3 | 1,125 | Male | Houston |
| Barton, Chad | Holland & Knight | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Becker, Will | O'Melveny | 8 | 610 | Male | Dallas |
| Beckert, Brent | Haynes and Boone | 6 | 100 | Male | Dallas |
| Bell, Jerry | Norton Rose Fulbright | 1 | 797 | Male | Austin |
| Benitez, Bill | Kirkland & Ellis | 10 | 1,720 | Male | Houston |
| Benloulou, Jonathan | Kirkland & Ellis | 5 | 100 | Male | Dallas |
| Bennett, Chris | Simpson Thacher | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Bennett, Jason | Baker Botts | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Benton, Henry | Locke Lord | 2 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Berber-Thayer, Valisa | Haynes and Boone | 5 | 222 | Female | Houston |
| Bernell, Brent | DLA Piper | 1 | 50 | Male | Austin |
| Bernhisel, Preston | Baker Botts | 4 | 1,669 | Male | Dallas |
| Betts, Jesse | Akin | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Bielby, Mike | Vinson & Elkins | 1 | 255 | Male | Dallas |
| Bland, Doug | Vinson & Elkins | 1 | 335 | Male | Houston |
| Blankenship, Mike | Winston & Strawn | 14 | 2,458 | Male | Houston |
| Boardman, Kevin | McGuireWoods | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Bobo, Kellie | Haynes and Boone | 4 | 39 | Female | Austin |
| Bogdanow, Alan | Vinson & Elkins | 1 | 1,400 | Male | Dallas |
| Bogdanow, Peter | Katten | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Bogucki, Jacqui | Simpson Thacher | 1 | - | Female | Houston |
| Boone, Stephen | Akin | 4 | 1,175 | Male | Houston |
| Boyar, Bill | BoyarMiller | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Brandt, Thomas | Latham & Watkins | 2 | 200 | Male | Houston |
| Branigan, Abby | Vinson & Elkins | 5 | 70 | Female | Dallas |
| Bredthauer, Cole | Akin | 1 | 500 | Male | Fort Worth |
| Brett, Clay | Baker Botts | 2 | 2,100 | Male | Houston |
| Bridges, Trent | Sidley Austin | 1 | 80 | Male | Houston |
| Brooker, Jeffrey | McGuireWoods | 6 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Brown, Corey | Porter Hedges | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Browning, Marc | Kirkland & Ellis | 3 | 3,336 | Male | Austin |
| Bruce, Banks | Sidley Austin | 3 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Buck, David | Sidley Austin | 1 | 112 | Male | Houston |
| Burnett, Zach | Haynes and Boone | 4 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Burns, Will | Paul Hastings | 1 | 160 | Male | Houston |
| Butkus, Molly | Bracewell | 2 | 669 | Female | Houston |
| Buxbaum, Steven | Haynes and Boone | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Byrd, Michael | Porter Hedges | 1 | 54 | Male | Houston |
| Cadis, Daniel | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | 179 | Male | Austin |
| Cagle, Kim | King & Spalding | 1 | - | Female | Houston |
| Calder, Andrew | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | 18,400 | Male | Houston |
| Califano, Thomas | Sidley Austin | 1 | 400 | Male | Dallas |
| Camp, Steve | Husch Blackwell | 1 | 67 | Male | Dallas |
| Cardone, Robert | Shearman & Sterling | 4 | 8,900 | Male | Dallas |
| Carper, Cody | Skadden | 1 | 70 | Male | Houston |
| Castro, David | Kirkland & Ellis | 11 | 8,592 | Male | Houston |
| Centrich, Christopher | Akin | 3 | 1,157 | Male | Houston |
| Chambers, Michael | Latham & Watkins | 1 | 39 | Male | Austin |
| Chandler, Tim | Sidley Austin | 6 | 1,400 | Male | Houston |
| Chandler, Trina | Latham & Watkins | 3 | 7,039 | Female | Houston |
| Chapman, Jeffrey | Gibson Dunn | 4 | 65,080 | Male | Dallas |
| Choi, Emery | White & Case | 2 | 1,600 | Male | Houston |
| Clark, Ben | Pillsbury | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Clark, Dusan | Sidley Austin | 1 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Cohen, Arthur | Haynes and Boone | 1 | 60 | Male | Houston |
| Cole, Jim | Latham & Watkins | 2 | 1,835 | Male | Houston |
| Colvin, Michael | Egan Nelson | 2 | 10 | Male | Dallas |
| Conneely, Paul | Norton Rose Fulbright | 5 | 17 | Male | Dallas |
| Considine, Michael | Kirkland & Ellis | 4 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Cook, Sally | O'Melveny | 1 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Cowen, James | Porter Hedges | 1 | 306 | Male | Houston |
| Cox, Kristen | Meadows Collier Reed | 1 | 41 | Female | Dallas |
| Craig, Scott | Latham & Watkins | 1 | 30 | Male | Austin |
| Crews, Kevin | Kirkland & Ellis | 8 | 4,625 | Male | Dallas |
| Crispin, Samantha | Baker Botts | 1 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Crosby, Shamus | Simpson Thacher | 4 | 13,000 | Male | Houston |
| Cross, Christopher | Latham & Watkins | 1 | 243 | Male | Houston |
| Cuclis, Jay | White & Case | 1 | 550 | Male | Houston |
| Cuellar, Cassandra | Shearman & Sterling | 2 | - | Female | Austin |
| Daly, Jon | Sidley Austin | 2 | 385 | Male | Houston |
| Daniels, Edmund | McGuireWoods | 1 | 1,750 | Male | Houston |
| Darden, Michael | Gibson Dunn | 1 | 591 | Male | Houston |
| Davidson, James | HuntonAK | 1 | 1,400 | Male | Houston |
| Davidson, Josh | Baker Botts | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Davis, Janice | Morgan Lewis | 1 | 700 | Female | Dallas |
| Davis, Laurie | O'Melveny | 1 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Davis, Lee | HuntonAK | 1 | 3 | Male | Houston |
| DeAngelis, Nick | Sidley Austin | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Delaney, Scott | Weil | 1 | 50 | Male | Dallas |
| Denney, Karen | Haynes and Boone | 1 | - | Female | Fort Worth |
| Dermarkar, Alain | Shearman & Sterling | 13 | 3,270 | Male | Dallas |
| Descoteaux, Gemma | Sheppard Mullin | 1 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Devine, Alex | Gunderson | 1 | - | Male | Austin |
| Dhesi, Nick | Latham & Watkins | 9 | 4,774 | Male | Houston |
| Dhuka, Shumaila | Locke Lord | 3 | - | Female | Houston |
| Diaz, Carlos | White & Case | 1 | 390 | Male | Houston |
| Diffen, Becky | Norton Rose Fulbright | 3 | - | Female | Austin |
| Dinerstein, Jeff | Morgan Lewis | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Dobbs, Jeff | Mayer Brown | 3 | 4,350 | Male | Houston |
| Dodd, Jeff | HuntonAK | 2 | 3 | Male | Houston |
| Dodson, Sarah | Baker Botts | 1 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Dominguez, Rodrigo | White & Case | 4 | 200 | Male | Houston |
| Dougherty, Robert | Holland & Knight | 2 | 674 | Male | Dallas |
| Downs, Nettie | Vinson & Elkins | 1 | - | Female | Houston |
| Dybala, Kelly | Sidley Austin | 4 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Eiland, Will | Kirkland & Ellis | 5 | 6,214 | Male | Dallas |
| Einbinder, Matthew | Simpson Thacher | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Elam, Austin | Haynes and Boone | 4 | 894 | Male | Houston |
| Ericksen, A.J. | White & Case | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Everett, Grant | Baker Botts | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Falcone, Matt | Vinson & Elkins | 6 | 1,650 | Male | Houston |
| Fallon, Archie | Willkie Farr | 5 | 835 | Male | Houston |
| Faulkner, GeraldC.J. | McGuireWoods | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Fedorko, Zach | Baker Botts | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Fenimore, Chet | Fenimore, Kay, Harrison & Ford | 1 | - | Male | Austin |
| Fenn, Tim (Houston ) | Latham & Watkins | 1 | 106 | Male | Houston |
| Fenske, Brian | Norton Rose Fulbright | 7 | 69 | Male | Houston |
| Ferazzi, Chris | Winston & Strawn | 2 | - | Male | Houston |
| Ferguson, Lindsay | Sheppard Mullin | 1 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Finger, Jon | McGuireWoods | 9 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Finnegan, Bill | Latham & Watkins | 2 | 13,100 | Male | Houston |
| Fitzgerald, Rachel | Locke Lord | 2 | 80 | Female | Houston |
| Flack, Joe | Jackson Walker | 1 | 513 | Male | Houston |
| Florey, Tull | Gibson Dunn | 8 | 68,448 | Male | Houston |
| Folmsbee, Chris | Sidley Austin | 2 | - | Male | Houston |
| Fontana, Angela | Sidley Austin | 1 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Fore, Joseph | DLA Piper | 4 | 986 | Male | Austin |
| Foster, Holt | Sidley Austin | 2 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Foster, Sakina | Haynes and Boone | 1 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Frank, Katherine | Vinson & Elkins | 2 | 1,430 | Female | Dallas |
| Franklin, Jamie | White & Case | 3 | 18,400 | Male | Houston |
| Fry, Matt | Haynes and Boone | 1 | 358 | Male | Dallas |
| Frye, Richard | Weil | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Fullenweider, William | McGuireWoods | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Furlow, John | Kirkland & Ellis | 2 | 250 | Male | Houston |
| Gail, David | Weil | 4 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Garcia-Duran, Sara | Sidley Austin | 3 | 356 | Female | Dallas |
| Garcia-Moreno, Ricardo | Haynes and Boone | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Garmezy, Adam | Kirkland & Ellis | 7 | 611 | Male | Houston |
| Garrett, James | Latham & Watkins | 10 | 3,637 | Male | Houston |
| Gasser, Jennifer | Kirkland & Ellis | 5 | 1,865 | Female | Houston |
| Gaver, Taylor | BoyarMiller | 1 | 34 | Female | Houston |
| Gerisch, Brad | DLA Piper | 1 | 800 | Male | Austin |
| Gibson, Michael | Vinson & Elkins | 3 | 190 | Male | Austin |
| Giggs, Ryan | Willkie Farr | 1 | 34 | Male | Houston |
| Gill, Steve | Vinson & Elkins | 5 | 29,177 | Male | Houston |
| Girardeau, Emerson | Willkie Farr | 2 | 3,234 | Male | Houston |
| Glaccum, J.A. | HuntonAK | 1 | 385 | Male | Houston |
| Glover, Wade | Katten | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Gnaim, Habeeb "Hobbs" | Chamberlain Hrdlicka | 3 | 43 | Male | Houston |
| Gonzalez, George | Haynes and Boone | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Goodgame, John | Akin | 6 | 1,490 | Male | Houston |
| Goodin, Robert | Kirkland & Ellis | 8 | 4,033 | Male | Houston |
| Gordian, Carmelo | Shearman & Sterling | 2 | 6 | Male | Austin |
| Goulding, Matthew | Latham & Watkins | 1 | 25 | Male | Houston |
| Graffum, Rob | O'Melveny | 8 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Grahmann, Kraig | Haynes and Boone | 2 | 1,130 | Male | Houston |
| Grand, John | Vinson & Elkins | 4 | 2,121 | Male | Dallas |
| Grandio, Emilio | White & Case | 5 | 541 | Male | Houston |
| Grant, Stephen | Haynes and Boone | 1 | 67 | Male | Houston |
| Greer, John | Latham & Watkins | 7 | 14,822 | Male | Houston |
| Griffin, James | Weil | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Grimley, Jared | Latham & Watkins | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Grunert, Matthew | Bracewell | 2 | 4,421 | Male | Houston |
| Gutmann, Lytch | Bracewell | 1 | - | Female | Houston |
| Haag, Charlie | Winston & Strawn | 2 | 121 | Male | Dallas |
| Haire, Breen | Simpson Thacher | 5 | 13,000 | Male | Houston |
| Hall, Larry | Baker Botts | 3 | 2,910 | Male | Dallas |
| Hammett, Donald | Alston & Bird | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Hamrick, Mark | Egan Nelson | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Hanchey, Patrick | Alston & Bird | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Hansard, Catharine | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Harder, Troy | Bracewell | 1 | 2,300 | Male | Houston |
| Hardison, Ben | Kirkland & Ellis | 2 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Harmon, Melanie | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | 960 | Female | Houston |
| Harris, Tom | Haynes and Boone | 3 | 440 | Male | Dallas |
| Hatter, Debra | Norton Rose Fulbright | 1 | 500 | Female | Houston |
| Heasley, Chris | Kirkland & Ellis | 7 | 2,399 | Male | Houston |
| Heintz, Alia | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | 11 | Female | Houston |
| Heller, William | Mayer Brown | 1 | 450 | Male | Houston |
| Henderson, Bryan | Baker Botts | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Henderson, Kevin | SMB Law | 30 | 192 | Male | Dallas |
| Herzog, Bruce | Latham & Watkins | 7 | 1,606 | Male | Houston |
| Hicks, Kim | Kirkland & Ellis | 2 | - | Female | Austin |
| Hidalgo, Gregory | Katten | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Hill, Greg | Hogan Lovells | 1 | 1,815 | Male | Houston |
| Hinderliter, Dean | Winston & Strawn | 1 | 104 | Male | Dallas |
| Hoffman, Joseph "Joe" | Katten | 1 | 21 | Male | Dallas |
| Holcomb, Ryan | Bracewell | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Hollins, Morgan | White & Case | 6 | 1,258 | Female | Houston |
| Holmes, Hillary | Gibson Dunn | 7 | 2,283 | Female | Houston |
| Honeycutt, Brad | Willkie Farr | 3 | 189 | Male | Houston |
| Hopkins, Erin | Baker Botts | 1 | 768 | Male | Houston |
| Horan, Sean | O'Melveny | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Howard, Jason | Egan Nelson | 2 | 23 | Male | Dallas |
| Howell, Bill | Sidley Austin | 7 | 720 | Male | Dallas |
| Hughes, Jay | Willkie Farr | 2 | - | Male | Houston |
| Hughes, Robert | Vinson & Elkins | 8 | 6,600 | Male | Houston |
| Hunsaker, Ryan | Winston & Strawn | 1 | 50 | Male | Houston |
| Hurley, Patrick | Akin | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Jacobsen, Jack | O'Melveny | 5 | 800 | Male | Dallas |
| Jaquillard, Lindsey | Kirkland & Ellis | 3 | 5,165 | Female | Houston |
| Jean, Jason | Bracewell | 1 | 621 | Male | Houston |
| Jerath, Geetika | Norton Rose Fulbright | 1 | - | Female | Austin |
| Jewell, Bob | HuntonAK | 1 | 3,800 | Male | Houston |
| Johnston, Garrett | O'Melveny | 2 | - | Male | Houston |
| Johnston, Tony | Kirkland & Ellis | 4 | 300 | Male | Dallas |
| Johnstone, Debbi | Norton Rose Fulbright | 1 | - | Female | Houston |
| Jones, Allison | BakerHostetler | 1 | 200 | Female | Houston |
| Jones, Brandon | Haynes and Boone | 2 | - | Male | Fort Worth |
| Jones, Cyril | Kirkland & Ellis | 8 | 5,744 | Male | Houston |
| Jones, Wes | Vinson & Elkins | 1 | - | Male | Austin |
| Jou, Albert | O'Melveny | 13 | 1,454 | Male | Houston |
| Kaercher, John | Kirkland & Ellis | 12 | 3,389 | Male | Austin |
| Kalka, Melissa | Kirkland & Ellis | 2 | 25,400 | Female | Dallas |
| Kaufman, Erin | Shearman & Sterling | 1 | - | Female | Houston |
| Keeley, Michael | Norton Rose Fulbright | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Kelly, Mark | Vinson & Elkins | 3 | 38 | Male | Houston |
| Kennedy, Jeremy | Haynes and Boone | 5 | 17,815 | Male | Houston |
| Kesten, Steve | BoyarMiller | 1 | 400 | Male | Houston |
| Khalifa, Miriam | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | - | Female | Austin |
| Kibby, Rob | Munsch Hardt | 2 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Kidd, Chelsie | McGuireWoods | 2 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Kiernan, Joshua | Latham & Watkins | 1 | 371 | Male | Houston |
| Kimball, Robert | Vinson & Elkins | 2 | 19,300 | Male | Dallas |
| King, Michael | Latham & Watkins | 2 | 2,242 | Male | Houston |
| Kirk, Allan | Kirkland & Ellis | 6 | 7,443 | Male | Houston |
| Kirkpatrick, Chris | Wick Phillips | 1 | 67 | Male | Dallas |
| Kleinman, Bill | Haynes and Boone | 6 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Knight, Jim | Egan Nelson | 3 | 14 | Male | Houston |
| Kuehn, Caroline | Vinson & Elkins | 2 | 885 | Female | Houston |
| Kunzman, Mark | Egan Nelson | 4 | - | Male | Houston |
| Kuperman, Shay | Vinson & Elkins | 3 | 946 | Male | Houston |
| Kwan, Michelle | Shearman & Sterling | 1 | 15 | Female | Austin |
| Lancaster, Tara | Sidley Austin | 5 | 85 | Female | Dallas |
| Lang, David | Kirk & Spalding | 1 | 400 | Male | Houston |
| Lange, David | Winston & Strawn | 2 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Lansdale, Daryl | Norton Rose Fulbright | 3 | - | Male | San Antonio |
| Larkin, Michael | Porter Hedges | 1 | 41 | Male | Houston |
| Larson, Adam | Kirkland & Ellis | 4 | 4,264 | Male | Houston |
| Larson, Eric | Locke Lord | 3 | - | Male | Houston |
| Lau, Phil | Mayer Brown | 1 | 3,900 | Male | Houston |
| Laughlin, Thomas | Kirkland & Ellis | 10 | 9,765 | Male | Dallas |
| Laurel, Joe | Willkie Farr | 1 | 92 | Male | Houston |
| Leitch, Emily | Shearman & Sterling | 1 | 249 | Female | Houston |
| Lemus, Efren | Shearman & Sterling | 2 | 601 | Female | Dallas |
| Lewis, Kevin | Sidley Austin | 1 | - | Female | Houston |
| Lewis, Sekou | In-House | 1 | 3,200 | Male | Dallas |
| Lichtenheld, Emily | Kirkland & Ellis | 3 | 13,800 | Female | Austin |
| Liebmann, Diana | Haynes and Boone | 1 | - | Female | San Antonio |
| Lipman, Brice | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | - | Male | Austin |
| Lipscomb, Marc | Locke Lord | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Little, Robert | Gibson Dunn | 21 | 206 | Male | Dallas |
| Lobb, Brandon | Locke Lord | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Long, James | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | 2,000 | Male | Houston |
| Loocke, Bryan | Vinson & Elkins | 8 | 9,804 | Male | Houston |
| Looper, Cheryl | O'Melveny | 1 | - | Female | Houston |
| Lowther, Todd | Shearman & Sterling | 3 | 1,450 | Male | Houston |
| Lu, Tan | Willkie Farr | 2 | - | Male | Houston |
| Lukaszewski, Katy | Simpson Thacher | 3 | 1,100 | Female | Houston |
| Lynch, Ryan | Latham & Watkins | 4 | 3,563 | Male | Houston |
| Mabry, Cynthia | Gibson Dunn | 1 | 825 | Female | Houston |
| Macke, Jonathan | Weil | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Mahre, LeslieVaughn | Holland & Knight | 1 | - | Female | Houston |
| Maierson, Ryan | Latham & Watkins | 17 | 28,467 | Male | Houston |
| Malenfant, R.J. | Kirkland & Ellis | 2 | 825 | Male | Houston |
| Mann, Steve | Baker Botts | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Manzer, Alec | Kirkland & Ellis | 2 | 370 | Male | Austin |
| Marek, Mike | Vinson & Elkins | 9 | 324 | Male | Houston |
| Marsh, Joclynn | Vinson & Elkins | 2 | 764 | Female | Houston |
| Marshall, James | Baker Botts | 2 | 841 | Male | Houston |
| Marshall, Peter | Vinson & Elkins | 4 | 1,000 | Male | Dallas |
| Martin, Benjamin | Bracewell | 3 | 496 | Male | Houston |
| Massiatte, Michael | DLA Piper | 1 | 146 | Male | Dallas |
| Matthews, William | McGuireWoods | 1 | - | Male | Austin |
| May, Christopher | Simpson Thacher | 7 | 3,800 | Male | Houston |
| McCaffrey, Thomas | Akin | 2 | 43 | Male | Houston |
| McCombs, David | Haynes and Boone | 1 | 358 | Male | Dallas |
| McCombs, Sam | White & Case | 1 | 25 | Male | Houston |
| McCormick, Durham | McGuireWoods | 1 | 700 | Male | Houston |
| McCoy, Brandon | Haynes and Boone | 5 | - | Male | Dallas |
| McElroy, Frank | In-House | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| McEntee, Daniel | Vinson & Elkins | 2 | 1,000 | Male | Houston |
| McGowan, John | Haynes and Boone | 5 | - | Male | Dallas |
| McLean, David | McGuireWoods | 2 | - | Male | Dallas |
| McLean, Sarah | Shearman & Sterling | 8 | 1,450 | Female | Austin |
| McNulty, Josh | HuntonAK | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| McWilliams, Doug | Vinson & Elkins | 2 | 9,400 | Male | Houston |
| Mercer, Austin | Egan Nelson | 1 | 23 | Male | Dallas |
| Meredith, Nathan | Shearman & Sterling | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Mestre, Brook | Baker McKenzie | 1 | 1,800 | Male | Dallas |
| Metcalf, Chrissy | O'Melveny | 5 | 4 | Female | Dallas |
| Metts, Mark | Sidley Austin | 2 | 1,900 | Male | Houston |
| Michael, John | Vinson & Elkins | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Miller, Gary | BoyarMiller | 1 | 34 | Male | Houston |
| Miller, Scott | Latham & Watkins | 4 | 364 | Male | Houston |
| Mitchell, Ryan | McGuireWoods | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Mitchell, Victoria | Egan Nelson | 3 | 4 | Female | Dallas |
| Mize, Colin | Wick Phillips | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Mohan, Sameer | Morgan Lewis | 4 | - | Male | Houston |
| Moneypenny, Patrick | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | 500 | Male | Houston |
| Monier, Nick | Haynes and Boone | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Moore, Rodney | Weil | 1 | 50 | Male | Dallas |
| Morgan, Sarah | Vinson & Elkins | 1 | 7,100 | Female | Houston |
| Morrel, Joseph | Porter Hedges | 1 | 306 | Male | Houston |
| Mulcahy, DeLaina | Locke Lord | 1 | - | Female | Houston |
| Muskus, Luisa | White & Case | 2 | 11,100 | Female | Houston |
| Myers, Jesse | Gibson Dunn | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Nadworny, Matthew | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | 384 | Male | Houston |
| Nalley, Adam | Porter Hedges | 3 | 8 | Male | Houston |
| Nasra, Jason | Willkie Farr | 2 | - | Male | Houston |
| Neal, Drew | Kelly Hart & Hallman | 1 | 455 | Male | Fort Worth |
| Neill, Drew | Kelly Hart & Hallman | 1 | 455 | Male | Fort Worth |
| Nelson, Bill | Shearman & Sterling | 3 | 1,275 | Male | Houston |
| Nelson, Jhett | Kirkland & Ellis | 3 | 7 | Male | Houston |
| Nelson, Sarah | O'Melveny | 1 | 4 | Female | Dallas |
| Newby, Milam | Vinson & Elkins | 3 | - | Male | Austin |
| Newsome, Bruce | Haynes and Boone | 1 | 60 | Male | Dallas |
| Newton, Jonathan | King & Spalding | 2 | 700 | Male | Houston |
| Niezgoda, Brock | Gray Reed | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Noh, Stephen | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Nunn, Veronica | Pillsbury | 1 | - | Female | Austin |
| O'Brien, Sarah | Shearman & Sterling | 1 | 15 | Female | Austin |
| O'Leary, Mike | HuntonAK | 2 | 4,130 | Male | Houston |
| Oelman, David | Vinson & Elkins | 1 | 854 | Male | Houston |
| Ofner, Charlie | White & Case | 3 | 598 | Male | Houston |
| Oldham, Phillip | O'Melveny | 2 | 1,200 | Male | Austin |
| Oliver-Keymorth, Javier | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | 336 | Male | Austin |
| Oliver, Craig | Norton Rose Fulbright | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Olson, Stephen | Gibson Dunn | 5 | 700 | Male | Houston |
| Orengo Lyons, Gabriella | Sidley Austin | 1 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Orien, Joe | Gibson Dunn | 6 | 36 | Male | Dallas |
| Otness, Eric | Skadden | 3 | 5,000 | Male | Houston |
| Palmer, Heather | Sidley Austin | 1 | 85 | Female | Houston |
| Parel, Scott | Sidley Austin | 3 | 25 | Male | Dallas |
| Parish, Bill | White & Case | 6 | 11,451 | Male | Houston |
| Parker, Davis | Jackson Walker | 1 | 1,360 | Male | Houston |
| Pascal, Larry | Haynes and Boone | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Patel, Rakhee | Sidley Austin | 1 | 400 | Female | Dallas |
| Patterson, Danielle | Vinson & Elkins | 2 | 2,025 | Female | Houston |
| Pearce, Allison | Porter Hedges | 2 | - | Female | Houston |
| Peca, Samuel | Weil | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Peetz, Anne | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | - | Female | Houston |
| Peponis, Chris | Latham & Watkins | 1 | 75 | Male | Houston |
| Perrin, Harry | Vinson & Elkins | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Peter, Kevin | Locke Lord | 4 | 3,575 | Male | Houston |
| Peters, Jason | King & Spalding | 5 | 15 | Male | Houston |
| Pezanosky, Stephen M. | Haynes and Boone | 2 | 222 | Male | Fort Worth |
| Phaguda, Kabir | White & Case | 2 | 580 | Male | Houston |
| Piazza, Michael | Gibson Dunn | 13 | 2,377 | Male | Houston |
| Pierson, David | Chamberlain Hrdlicka | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Pinkerton, Glenn | Sidley Austin | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Pinkerton, Trevor | King & Spalding | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Pitts, John | Kirkland & Ellis | 7 | 7,768 | Male | Houston |
| Platt, Jon | Baker Botts | 3 | 2,595 | Male | Dallas |
| Polisini, Jack | Akin | 1 | 43 | Male | Houston |
| Powers, Josh | McGuireWoods | 2 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Prichard, Shalla | Gibson Dunn | 2 | 825 | Female | Houston |
| Proctor, Chase | Haynes and Boone | 4 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Pullin, Zackary | Sidley Austin | 2 | - | Male | Houston |
| Pullins, Taylor | White & Case | 4 | 25 | Male | Houston |
| Purohit, Ravi | Latham & Watkins | 4 | 2,400 | Male | Houston |
| Quattrocchi, John | Baker McKenzie | 1 | 245 | Male | Dallas |
| Rancher, Clint | Baker Botts | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Ransom, John | BoyarMiller | 1 | 400 | Male | Houston |
| Rasley, Stuart | McGuireWoods | 3 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Reardon, James | Porter Hedges | 1 | 41 | Male | Houston |
| Redwine, Blake | Norton Rose Fulbright | 2 | 213 | Male | Dallas |
| Reniger, Lowrie | McGuireWoods | 5 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Richards, Angela | Sidley Austin | 1 | 200 | Female | Houston |
| Richardson, Christopher | White & Case | 2 | - | Male | Houston |
| Richardson, Kevin | Latham & Watkins | 1 | 18,800 | Male | Houston |
| Richter, Lauren | Locke Lord | 1 | - | Female | Houston |
| Rigby, Aaron | Sidley Austin | 4 | 3,262 | Male | Dallas |
| Riggs, Ryan | Willkie Farr | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Roberts, Whit | O'Melveny | 5 | 1,910 | Male | Dallas |
| Robertson, James | Gibson Dunn | 2 | 900 | Male | Houston |
| Rocha, Jason | White & Case | 3 | 898 | Male | Houston |
| Rockhill, Kit | Jones Day | 1 | - | Female | Houston |
| Rodgers, Michael | White & Case | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Rose, Brian | Porter Hedges | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Rose, Marc | Sidley Austin | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Rose, Patrick | BakerHostetler | 1 | 200 | Male | Dallas |
| Rotter, Irv | Sidley Austin | 1 | 80 | Male | Houston |
| Rowley, Chris | Vinson & Elkins | 3 | 621 | Male | Dallas |
| Rubin, Steve | Wick Phillips | 1 | 67 | Male | Dallas |
| Sakowitz, Brittany | Kirkland & Ellis | 8 | 5,153 | Female | Houston |
| Salvo, Patrick | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | 570 | Male | Austin |
| Samji, Omar | Shearman & Sterling | 4 | 459 | Male | Houston |
| Samos, Mario | Sidley Austin | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Samson, Tim | Holland & Knight | 2 | - | Male | Houston |
| Sanders, Ryan | McGuireWoods | 2 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Santa Ana, Randy | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Sappington, Bryn | Norton Rose Fulbright | 3 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Sauber, Elena | Vinson & Elkins | 2 | 211 | Female | Dallas |
| Savella, Aaron | Willkie Farr | 4 | - | Male | Houston |
| Savrick, Zach | Kirkland & Ellis | 3 | 768 | Male | Houston |
| Schauwecker, Jessica | Katten | 1 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Schlegel, Jeff | Jones Day | 5 | 136 | Male | Houston |
| Schumacher, Jason | O'Melveny | 5 | 2,715 | Male | Dallas |
| Scioli, Jacqueline | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Scofield, Crosby | Vinson & Elkins | 1 | 20 | Male | Houston |
| Scofield, Ryan | Sidley Austin | 4 | 927 | Male | Dallas |
| Sears, Ryan | O'Melveny | 1 | 75 | Male | Dallas |
| Sethi, Akash | McGuireWoods | 4 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Shearer, Rob | Akin | 2 | 332 | Male | Houston |
| Sheridan, Jessica | Willkie Farr | 4 | - | Female | Houston |
| Shirley, Jack | Kirkland & Ellis | 2 | 75 | Male | Dallas |
| Shosid, Larry | Haynes and Boone | 3 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Shukla, Atman | Sidley Austin | 4 | 1,594 | Male | Houston |
| Sidik, Ahmed | Kirkland & Ellis | 6 | 3,044 | Male | Houston |
| Simmons, Jennie | Locke Lord | 4 | - | Female | Houston |
| Sizer, Brooke | Holland & Knight | 1 | 500 | Female | Houston |
| Smith, Chad | Kirkland & Ellis | 3 | 3,207 | Male | Houston |
| Smith, Creighton | Vinson & Elkins | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Smith, Kristen | Sidley Austin | 2 | 4,400 | Female | Dallas |
| Solomon, Mark | Katten | 4 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Spedale, Gerry | Gibson Dunn | 2 | 671 | Male | Houston |
| Speier, Anthony | Kirkland & Ellis | 3 | 300 | Male | Houston |
| Spottswood, Lande | Vinson & Elkins | 4 | 15,154 | Female | Houston |
| Standefer, Brent | Fenimore, Kay, Harrison & Ford | 1 | - | Male | Austin |
| Statham, Blaine | Haynes and Boone | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Stephens, Robert | Sidley Austin | 2 | 1,835 | Male | Houston |
| Still, Charles | Bracewell | 1 | 214 | Male | Houston |
| Stockstill, Matt | Winston & Strawn | 1 | 50 | Male | Dallas |
| Stolte, Justin | Latham & Watkins | 10 | 1,932 | Male | Houston |
| Strickland, David | White & Case | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Stringer, David | Jones Day | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Strock, Matt | Vinson & Elkins | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Strom, Jonathan | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | 127 | Male | Houston |
| Sullivan, Shane | Porter Hedges | 1 | 54 | Male | Houston |
| Sun, Simin | Haynes and Boone | 6 | 12 | Male | Houston |
| Swanstrom, Bill | Locke Lord | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Sweeney, David | Clifford Chance | 1 | 720 | Male | Houston |
| Szalkowski, Stephen | Latham & Watkins | 6 | 1,917 | Male | Houston |
| Tatum, Mary-Wommack | Dwyer Murphy Calvert | 1 | - | Female | Austin |
| Teahen, Joshua | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Telle, Mike | Vinson & Elkins | 2 | 3,077 | Male | Houston |
| Tippetts, Tom | Haynes and Boone | 4 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Tiras, Mitch | Locke Lord | 5 | 1,655 | Male | Houston |
| Todd, Brett | Norton Rose Fulbright | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Todd, Martha | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | - | Female | Austin |
| Tomlinson, Thomas | Bracewell | 1 | 175 | Male | Houston |
| Torello, Steven | O'Melveny | 14 | 1,994 | Male | Houston |
| Totari, Rami | Kirkland & Ellis | 2 | 1,044 | Male | Dallas |
| Tredennick, Steve | White & Case | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Trisdale, Heath | Kirk & Spalding | 2 | 700 | Male | Houston |
| Usmani, Zahra | Kirkland & Ellis | 4 | 424 | Female | Austin |
| Van Syoc, Rhett | Kirkland & Ellis | 5 | 4,350 | Male | Houston |
| Varner, Enoch | Clifford Chance | 1 | 11,000 | Male | Houston |
| Vashi, Rahul | Kirkland & Ellis | 6 | 5,217 | Male | Houston |
| Verity, Thomas | Latham & Watkins | 4 | 5,028 | Male | Houston |
| Villarreal, Debra | Holland & Knight | 1 | 1,400 | Female | Dallas |
| Vlahakos, George | Sidley Austin | 2 | 1,600 | Male | Houston |
| von Merz, Carl | Mayer Brown | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Vrielink, Cliff | Sidley Austin | 7 | 534 | Male | Houston |
| Walker, Andrew | Kirkland & Ellis | 3 | - | Male | Austin |
| Washburn, David | Katten | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Watson, Kyle | Kirkland & Ellis | 6 | 3,400 | Male | Houston |
| Watts, Wes | Gunderson | 2 | 4 | Male | Austin |
| Weinstock, Peter | HuntonAK | 2 | 86 | Male | Dallas |
| Wessel, Kevin | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | 384 | Male | Houston |
| Wetzel, Susan | Haynes and Boone | 2 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Whalen, Jonathan | Gibson Dunn | 5 | 900 | Male | Dallas |
| Wheeler, Sean | Kirkland & Ellis | 5 | 34,830 | Male | Houston |
| Whitaker, Beth | HuntonAK | 1 | - | Female | Dallas |
| White, Lauren | Haynes and Boone | 1 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Whitehouse, Adam | Gibson Dunn | 1 | 700 | Male | Houston |
| Whitlock, Brad | Egan Nelson | 1 | 3 | Male | Dallas |
| Wilde, Alexandra | Jones Day | 3 | 50 | Female | Houston |
| Wilhelm, David | Locke Lord | 1 | 1,815 | Male | Houston |
| Williams, Eric | Akin | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Williams, Wes | Akin | 1 | 82 | Male | Dallas |
| Willson, Kate | Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | - | Female | Austin |
| Wilshusen, Bill | Haynes and Boone | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Wilson, Larry | BoyarMIller | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Wisinski, Jennifer | Haynes and Boone | 2 | 145 | Female | Dallas |
| Wofford, Travis | Baker Botts | 1 | 1,600 | Male | Houston |
| Wray, Kelly | McGuireWoods | 2 | - | Female | Dallas |
| Wynne, Richard | Winston & Strawn | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Xia, Edward | Sheppard Mullin | 1 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Yang, Tom | Akin | 5 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Yee, Debbie | Kirkland & Ellis | 5 | 33,322 | Female | Houston |
| Yoked, Tommer | Sidley Austin | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Zabaneh, Samer | Latham & Watkins | 1 | 835 | Male | Austin |
| Zanetti, Victor | Katten | 17 | - | Male | Dallas |
| Zenter, Thomas | Vinson & Elkins | 1 | - | Male | Houston |
| Zhao, Mingda | White & Case | 3 | 20,000 | Male | Houston |