It’s an energy-fueled transactional heyday for the large Texas firms that were on the short list of the nation’s busiest deal-making firms in 2011.

A total of eight Texas firms appear on charts in The American Lawyer ‘s Corporate Scorecard 2012, which ranks firms on the volume and value of transactional work in 2011. That’s the same number of Texas firms on the scorecard charts as last year. Most of the BigTex firms are making repeat appearances on the scorecard charts.