Best Law Firms in Texas for Corporate Law

Crain Caton & James prioritizes clear communication, client-focused service, and dependable legal solutions, making the legal process straightforward while delivering trustworthy outcomes

We align our legal strategies with your objectives and goals, leveraging our extensive experience and diverse capabilities to drive your success in today's complex world.

Our accomplished attorneys and counselors bring a wealth of knowledge, innovative thinking, and a proven track record of excellence to every matter, ensuring that you receive top-tier legal representation tailored to your unique needs and challenges.

Crain Caton & James provides first-class service combining integrity and exceptional value to its clients. Comprised of experienced attorneys across a broad range of practice areas, the Firm provides legal counseling and client-focused solutions locally and around the world.

Founded in 1912 as Kennerly & Warnken, Crain Caton & James has grown into a stable law firm of over 45 lawyers and their highly-qualified support staff without a merger.

Our attorneys, are recognized for their contributions to the legal community, including: practice expertise, publication of standard legal texts, and presentations to both legal and lay audiences. Many of our attorneys are recipients of recognition awards from the state and local bar associations.

Today, our clients turn to us for legal counsel on:

• business transactions involving: land; commercial; industrial and residential real estate, and the development thereof; minerals in place; upstream, midstream and downstream energy assets, including liquefaction and export facilities; entity formation, capitalization and governance; tax planning; advice and compliance; merger, acquisition, consolidation and disposition of going concerns; and estate planning for transition of family-owned businesses;
• estate and wealth planning including: business succession planning; prenuptial, postnuptial and cohabitation agreements; will and trust preparation;
• estate and trust administration, and guardianship;
• estate and trust litigation;
• conduct of those in fiduciary positions, such as business directors, trust administrators, guardians and executors, particularly in connection with claims of malfeasance or financial exploitation;
• environmental law, compliance, investigation, remediation, and management of environmental risks;
• financial services, lending, compliance, and regulation of banks and other lending entities;
• bankruptcy and creditors’ rights;
• non-profit entity operations;
• intellectual property matters, including patent prosecution and litigation, registration and protection of trademarks, trade names, proprietary information, copyrights, trade secrets, and franchising; and
• litigation services, involving all of the practice areas, and including employer/employee relations, insurance coverage and claims, construction claims and disputes, hospital management, and risk management.

About Client Service

First-class client service requires customization, not commoditization. The attorneys and staff members at Crain Caton & James strive to know how each client defines client service. Does the client want a phone call, email, a written memo or in-person meeting? How often does the client want to receive status reports? How long can the client wait for a response? We recognize the path to the result is as important as the actual result.

Crain Caton & James does not have a big budget for advertising. We receive our work from client retention and referrals which makes client service of utmost importance to our people. Our attorneys and staff members work as a team. So, when an attorney is in trial or closing a deal and unable to return a client call, there is always another person who can return a call.

Feel free to try us and experience a firm where client service and value form its core.

McDermott Will & Schulte is a leading law firm with 362 lawyers recognized by Best Lawyers across 66 practice areas. The firm's tenure with Best Lawyers began in 1983. Having lawyers recognized in Best Lawyers' purely peer review process emphasizes the lawyers credibility and reputation for their practice amongst their peers in their practice area and region. It displays professional validation of the legal talent that McDermott Will & Schulte has on their team. The firm has lawyers recognized in practice areas including: Commercial Finance Law, Litigation - Bankruptcy, Financial Services Regulation Law, Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law and Life Sciences Practice.

McDermott Will & Schulte is also ranked by Best Law Firms in 56 practice areas. The Best Law Firms rankings are founded on a time-tested and transparent research process that has remained consistent since Best Lawyers launched it in 2010. McDermott Will & Schulte has 189 rankings in 56 practices. Echoing their Best Lawyers awards and team of top legal talent.