At a time when law firms are more openly announcing and discussing layoff decisions, one group of firms is being particularly mum about job cuts — the Texans.

Layoffs hit the region later than the rest of the country, with news of cuts at firms like Baker Botts, Andrews Kurth and Gardere Wynne Sewell coming only in the past month. Yet while the firms typically have confirmed that they’ve conducted layoffs, they’ve fought to keep the actual number of people affected quiet.