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Rankings: California Powerhouses

  • August 01, 2022

    Calif. Powerhouses Lead Hot Legal Market Facing Slowdown

    Law360's 2022 California Powerhouses have steered multibillion-dollar deals, defended technology and pharmaceutical clients against high-stakes litigation, and secured nine-figure trial wins amid a recently booming Golden State legal market that has abruptly slowed in the face of recession fears, according to experts.

  • July 31, 2022

    The 2022 Regional Powerhouses

    The law firms on Law360's list of 2022 Regional Powerhouses are handling some of the biggest deals and most high-profile courtroom battles across nine states, offering clients regional expertise and making a lasting impact on the law at the state and local level.

  • August 06, 2021

    California Powerhouse: Nossaman

    Not only was Los Angeles-based Nossaman LLP extremely active in California's legal industry last year, the firm also shaped the laws and infrastructure of the state, scoring a victory for industry groups in an appellate ruling that said bees can't be protected as fish under California law, reversing Santa Barbara's short-term coastal rental ban, and successfully defending California pension reform legislation.

  • August 05, 2021

    California Powerhouse: Munger Tolles

    Whether guiding companies through some of the biggest disasters and tragedies to hit the globe, or stringing up a series of appellate victories, Los Angeles-based Munger Tolles & Olson LLP proved again over the last year that despite its small size, it packs a heavyweight punch.

  • August 04, 2021

    California Powerhouse: Morrison & Foerster

    Morrison & Foerster LLP's attorneys outdid themselves this past year in both litigation and transactions, securing a decisive win for coffee roasters in an industry-wide lawsuit alleging coffee contains a cancer-causing chemical and representing Salesforce in its $27.7 billion acquisition of workplace messaging company Slack.

  • August 03, 2021

    California Powerhouse: Kirkland & Ellis

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's West Coast team has been firing on all cylinders during the past year, winning two of the largest trade secret verdicts in U.S. history, working on more than $20 billion worth of transactions for Vista Equity Partners, and assisting the pandemic's largest restructurings, including Neiman Marcus, Forever 21 and Frontier Communications.

  • August 02, 2021

    California Powerhouse: Baum Hedlund

    Driven by a long-standing sense of responsibility to represent the little guy or gal against powerful corporate interests as a means to enact greater change, Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman PC has racked up a series of major victories on multiple fronts against Bayer AG over Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller. Correction: A previous version of the headline with this article misspelled the firm's name. The error has been corrected.

  • July 30, 2021

    California Powerhouses Lead Hot Legal Market On The Climb

    The diverse group of law firms selected as Law360's 2021 California Powerhouses have steered billions in mergers and acquisitions, represented tech and entertainment giants and shaken up the agricultural industry in a legal market that one expert said was "hot and on fire."

  • July 30, 2021

    The 2021 Regional Powerhouses

    The law firms on Law360's list of 2021 Regional Powerhouses are handling some of the biggest deals and most high-profile courtroom battles across eight states, offering clients regional expertise and making a lasting impact on the law at the state and local level.

  • September 09, 2019

    California Powerhouse: Munger Tolles & Olson

    Munger Tolles & Olson LLP spent another year at center stage in some of the Golden State's biggest media and entertainment battles, notching multimillion-dollar wins for movie studios locked in copyright disputes with distributors while securing victories in high-exposure cases in courtrooms on both coasts.

  • September 06, 2019

    California Powerhouse: Hueston Hennigan

    Hueston Hennigan LLP has helped big-name clients navigate high-stakes litigation in 2019, including tech tycoon Elon Musk's battles with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a long-running legal saga involving media mogul Sumner Redstone and a consumer protection dispute involving the Navajo Nation.

  • September 05, 2019

    California Powerhouse: Lieff Cabraser

    Driven by a strong sense of social responsibility, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP reached policy-changing, big-dollar settlements with Fiat Chrysler over diesel emissions fraud, with Anthem over a massive medical data breach and with the University of Southern California over a gynecologist's sexual abuse of students.

  • September 04, 2019

    California Powerhouse: Gibson Dunn & Crutcher

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP continued to stand out from the pack in both the litigation and corporate practice areas this year, securing a complete victory for Hewlett Packard Enterprise in a long-running infringement case, helping CNN's Jim Acosta restore his White House press credentials and advising on prominent deals.

  • September 03, 2019

    California Powerhouse: Fenwick & West

    Fenwick & West LLP's attorneys outdid themselves this past year in both litigation and transactions, securing a decisive win for Uber in a shareholder suit over driverless-car technology trade secrets and representing Symantec in its $10.7 billion sale of enterprise security assets to Broadcom.

  • August 30, 2019

    The 2019 Regional Powerhouses

    The law firms on Law360's list of 2019 Regional Powerhouses are handling some of the biggest deals and most high-profile courtroom battles across eight states, offering clients regional expertise and making a lasting impact on the law at the state and local level.

  • August 30, 2019

    Powerhouses Lead Hot Calif. Legal Market Facing Shakeup

    The eclectic group of law firms selected as Law360's 2019 California Powerhouses have steered billions in transactions, landed multimillion-dollar settlements and secured precedential rulings, representing tech and entertainment giants in a legal market that experts say is "deliriously" hot and could be on the verge of a shakeup.

  • September 06, 2018

    California Powerhouse: Best Best & Krieger

    Over the past year, Best Best & Krieger has shepherded billions of dollars' worth of projects, such as the massive rail infrastructure expansion at the Port of Long Beach, through California's notoriously complex environmental review framework and helped municipalities across the Golden State deal with new and thorny issues like Airbnb and legalized marijuana, establishing itself as one of the most diverse mid-size law firms in the country.

  • September 05, 2018

    California Powerhouse: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton

    In the last year, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has continued to help transform the Bay Area's real estate while steering Starbucks through a class action over allegedly underfilled iced drinks and BofI Federal Bank's holding company through a suit alleging false or misleading public statements, solidifying its role as a Golden State transactional and litigation titan.

  • September 04, 2018

    California Powerhouse: Orrick

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP continued to dominate in the technology and finance practice areas this past year, securing a decisive win for Twitter in an employee class action, representing Oracle in its epic infringement case against Google and advising on high-profile deals.

  • August 31, 2018

    California Powerhouse: Munger Tolles & Olson

    Munger Tolles & Olson LLP racked up victories for high-profile clients in the last year, earning wins for FX Networks in a suit over its show, "Feud," and in a dispute for Airbnb against an apartment investment company, bolstering the reputation the firm has built over more than 55 years for solving tough problems for the entertainment and Silicon Valley clients that make California their home.

  • August 30, 2018

    California Powerhouse: Morrison & Foerster

    In the last year, Morrison & Foerster LLP has fought to a standstill Waymo's $2 billion trade secrets case against Uber and steered the ride-hailing giant's subsequent settlement, all while helping to guide billions in investment dollars into various startups and handling more parochial concerns on behalf of Golden State institutions like the University of California.

  • August 29, 2018

    California Powerhouse: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton

    Tracing its California presence back more than 150 years, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP holds tight to roots as an intellectual property leader as well as advising entertainment and technology giants, including aiding Showtime Networks in a broadcast piracy crackdown and delivering a win for DreamHost in a dispute over a federal government search warrant.

  • August 28, 2018

    California Powerhouse: Gibson Dunn & Crutcher

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's attorneys outdid themselves this past year on both the litigation and transactional fronts, securing a decisive win for Grubhub in a class action that threatened the company's operations and advising on complex deals such as HTC Corp.'s sale of part of its smartphone business to Google.

  • August 27, 2018

    California Powerhouse: Farella Braun & Martel LLP

    Since its founding in 1962, Farella Braun & Martel LLP has grown from a San Francisco-based litigation boutique to a 126-lawyer-strong firm representing a diverse array of clients in real estate development, intellectual property and other transactional work, from BladeRoom Group Ltd. in a trade secrets dispute with Facebook and Emerson Electric to decades serving Napa Valley wineries large and small.

  • August 24, 2018

    Calif. Powerhouses Leverage Top Talent In Legal Gold Rush

    The continuing growth of California’s economy has fueled a legal industry gold rush across practice areas, and the eight firms selected as Law360’s 2018 California Powerhouses have excelled at attracting top talent and the state’s increasing book of business, from class actions targeting tech giants to deals and disputes in the sports and entertainment industries.

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