Houston, Texas

Legal resources in Houston.

Houston is Texas's largest city and principal legal market for the Gulf Coast. The city hosts the Harris County District Courts, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas (Houston Division), the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sessions, the University of Houston Law Center, South Texas College of Law Houston, and the Houston Division of the Texas Business Court. The economy combines energy (major oil and gas HQs — ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell US), healthcare (Texas Medical Center — largest medical complex in the world), aerospace (NASA Johnson Space Center), logistics (Port of Houston), and manufacturing.