Crain Caton & James is a century-old, full-service law firm based in Houston, Texas, providing transactional counsel, corporate advisory, regulatory guidance, and trial defense services locally, nationally, and internationally.
The firm concentrates its collective legal capabilities across major practice divisions:
- Corporate & Financial: Banking and financial institution compliance, business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial real estate development.
- Wealth, Trust, & Fiduciary: Estate planning, complex trust structuring, asset protection, and fiduciary or probate litigation.
- Litigation & Appeals: Commercial litigation, construction disputes, labor and employment conflicts, and comprehensive state and federal appellate practice.
- Regulatory & Technical: Environmental law, toxic tort defense, administrative health and safety (EHS) compliance, OSHA mitigation, and intellectual property (IP) protection, including patent and trademark prosecution.