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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year

Law360’s Practice Groups of the Year highlights up to five practice groups that notched the biggest litigation victories or deals of the year. Winners are recognized for the size, complexity and significance of the deals or litigation they worked on.
  • March 11, 2026

    Transportation Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    WilmerHale scored a win for Norfolk Southern in an $800 million investor suit and victories for Tesla in multiple cases, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Transportation Practice Groups of the Year.

  • March 10, 2026

    Transportation Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP advised Union Pacific on its proposed $85 billion mega-merger with Norfolk Southern, and secured notable court wins for major airlines, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Transportation Groups of the Year.

  • March 09, 2026

    Transportation Group Of The Year: O'Melveny

    Long-standing relationships with clients and the depth and breadth of O'Melveny & Myers' transportation practice group netted major wins staving off class actions against American Airlines and Southwest Airlines, as well as first-of-their-kind mergers and transactions, earning the group a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Transportation Groups of the Year.

  • March 09, 2026

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Clement & Murphy

    Last year, Clement & Murphy PLLC attorneys again remade environmental and administrative law, this time by scoring a favorable U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding a Utah oil railway, and by talking the justices out of making major changes to the nondelegation doctrine in a telecom case — earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • March 06, 2026

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP helped convince the Sixth Circuit to end the government's net neutrality rules in one of the highest-profile cases turning on the U.S. Supreme Court's Loper Bright decision and won two appellate rulings in favor of FirstEnergy Corp. in litigation over a $1 billion bribery scandal, earning it a place among the 2025 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • March 05, 2026

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP argued four cases before the Supreme Court in 2025 and prevailed in two, securing victory for a Minnesota student denied disability accommodations and preventing the creation of an Oklahoma religious charter school on First Amendment grounds, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • March 04, 2026

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP attorneys advised a joint venture by RXR Realty and Elliott Investment Management on a $1 billion-plus office acquisition in Manhattan and provided counsel on other notable deals in the New York City area last year, landing the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • March 04, 2026

    Appellate Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    Last year, WilmerHale attorneys helped save a man's life in the U.S. Supreme Court, overturned a headline-grabbing fraud conviction and wiped out more than $500 million in patent infringement jury verdicts on appeal, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • March 03, 2026

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP secured significant appellate rulings in its favor last year, including in U.S. Supreme Court cases dealing with the deadline to petition for judicial review of a removal order and whether a trademark plaintiff can recover profits from entities other than named defendants, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • March 02, 2026

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day won three victories at the U.S. Supreme Court, including one barring the Mexican government from suing American gun manufacturers and another allowing e-cigarette retailers to challenge the government's denial of a vape company's marketing applications, earning it a place among the 2025 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • February 27, 2026

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Goodwin

    Goodwin Procter LLP advised Blueprint Medicines in its $9.5 billion acquisition by Sanofi and represented SpringWorks Therapeutics as it was purchased by Merck for $3.9 billion, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 27, 2026

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Singleton Schreiber

    A watershed $243 million jury verdict in a high-profile trial awarded to a survivor and the family of a victim of a deadly incident involving Tesla and its Autopilot technology marked the first time that the automaker had been found liable at trial for a fatal crash and helped secure Singleton Schreiber's spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 27, 2026

    Trials Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP secured a $310 million earnout deal for former shareholders in biotech company Syntimmune following a seven-day trial in the Delaware Court of Chancery, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Trials Group of the Year.

  • February 27, 2026

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Morrison Foerster

    Morrison Foerster LLP's white collar attorneys were selected as independent FDIC monitors, helped free a client wrongfully detained by the Nigerian government and adeptly guided McKinsey though both opioid and bribery investigations, earning them a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • February 27, 2026

    Energy Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP attorneys convinced the Delaware Supreme Court to reverse a $200 million judgment stemming from a $13 billion pipeline merger, and helped create a novel, cross-border clean energy development platform, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2026

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP lawyers pulled out wins last year for a crypto founder in a major U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission litigation and got the Commodity Futures Trading Commission sanctioned after a high-profile forex case dismissal, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2026

    Trials Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP secured trial wins for Uber in sexual assault mass litigation and for a railcar company defending against Norfolk Southern Corp. over the highly publicized East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Trials Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2026

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP helped Proctor & Gamble prevail in cold medicine multidistrict litigation and won a high-stakes baby formula trial for Mead Johnson in a plaintiff-friendly venue, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2026

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP's recent work advising Novartis on its $12 billion acquisition of Avidity Biosciences Inc., boosting the Swiss pharmaceutical giant's neuroscience portfolio, is among the reasons the firm landed among the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2026

    Energy Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's energy practice has played a central role in the rapid expansion of data centers throughout the U.S. and in record-setting utility transactions, and it even secured a more than $666 million damages verdict against Greenpeace, landing it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 25, 2026

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Barnes & Thornburg

    Barnes & Thornburg helped rewrite the playbook for defending crypto traders by securing a complete dismissal of federal criminal and civil charges against an operator of one of the earliest bitcoin exchanges, and then convincing the government not to appeal, earning the firm's place among the 2025 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • February 25, 2026

    Tax Group Of The Year: Baker McKenzie

    Baker McKenzie's tax practice conquered several high-profile cases in the past year, advising prominent companies like Meta Platforms Inc. on its challenge of a multibillion-dollar income adjustment and S&P Global on its spin-off transaction, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • February 25, 2026

    Trials Group Of The Year: Susman Godfrey

    Susman Godfrey secured a $970 million arbitration award against Walgreens in a contract dispute over at-home COVID-19 test kits and won a $1.6 billion judgment against China Construction America Inc. related to the embattled building and opening of the Baha Mar megaresort in the Bahamas, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Trials Groups of the Year.

  • February 25, 2026

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Dechert

    Dechert LLP's work navigating large, complex deals in Canada and the Bahamas, as well as completing two mega-refinancings for "trophy towers" in Manhattan, helped the firm earn a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Real Estate Practices of the Year.

  • February 25, 2026

    Energy Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP guided Chevron in its all-stock, $55 billion acquisition of Hess Corp., marking the fourth-largest energy deal of all time and earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.