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.
  • January 31, 2022

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Hunton

    Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP's environmental attorneys helped win key victories for clients in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Kentucky federal court and an Environmental Protection Agency appeals board, earning it a place among Law360's 2021 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2022

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Baker Botts

    Environmental attorneys at Baker Botts LLP notched several notable achievements in recent months, establishing what the firm calls a "go-to" incident response team, successfully helping ExxonMobil Corp. recover cleanup costs from the U.S. government and setting a new standard for how environmental consent decrees may be terminated, earning a place among Law360's 2021 Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2022

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its 2021 Practice Groups of the Year awards, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • January 14, 2022

    The Firms That Dominated In 2021

    Nine law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 52 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, having steered complex deals and won high-profile victories including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • December 10, 2020

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Hunton

    Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP recently represented clients in major litigation including ongoing municipal tort claims over climate change and the drama surrounding Nationwide Permit 12's vacatur, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • December 09, 2020

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC has represented plaintiffs in major cases including the residents of Flint, Michigan, who suffered through the city's lead water crisis and received a $600 million settlement this summer, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • December 08, 2020

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Bracewell

    Bracewell LLP's environmental attorneys worked on several major deals and scored key litigation wins this year, including defeating efforts to halt construction on the Permian Highway Pipeline natural gas project in Texas, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • December 07, 2020

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Beveridge & Diamond

    Beveridge & Diamond PC served as the court-appointed monitor for marquee actions like Volkswagen's $2.8 billion criminal plea over its emissions regulations scandal and Duke Energy's polluting of North Carolina waters with coal ash, earning itself a spot among Law360's 2020 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • December 04, 2020

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Baron & Budd

    Baron & Budd PC's environmental team achieved big, cutting-edge settlements for municipal clients that sued Pacific Gas and Electric Co. over wildfire damage in California and Bayer AG over water pollution across the country, earning it a place as one of Law360's 2020 Practice Groups of the Year.

  • November 25, 2020

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2020 Practice Groups of the Year awards, which honor the law firms behind the litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry in the past year.

  • November 25, 2020

    The Firms That Dominated In 2020

    The eight law firms topping Law360's Firms of the Year managed to win 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, for guiding landmark deals, scoring victories in high-profile disputes and helping companies navigate uncharted legal seas made rough by the coronavirus pandemic.

  • January 23, 2020

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP was involved in some of the year's biggest environmental disputes, from the ongoing fallout over the Aliso Canyon gas leak to defending against a growing wave of climate change litigation, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2020

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Western Enviro Law Center

    The Western Environmental Law Center has won several court cases in different jurisdictions over the past year that have forced the federal government to reassess how it accounts for climate change when considering leases for fossil fuel exploration and production on public lands, earning the nonprofit a spot in Law360's 2019 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2020

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP last year secured litigation wins against the Obama administration's rule expanding the reach of the Clean Water Act and helped a gas company defeat accusations that it polluted a Chicago suburb through abandoned gas pipelines, landing itself a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2020

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Manko Gold

    Manko Gold LLP continued its record of success in environmental matters in 2019, defending clients in toxic tort suits, helping shepherd a high-profile Sunoco pipeline project through various challenges in Pennsylvania and representing New York City in two huge Superfund site cleanup proceedings, earning it a spot in Law360's 2019 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • January 10, 2020

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2019 Practice Groups of the Year awards, which honor the law firms behind the litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry in the past year.

  • January 11, 2020

    The Firms That Dominated In 2019

    Law360's top seven Firms of the Year cleaned up at the 2019 Practice Group of the Year awards, notching a combined 46 wins after spending the past year helping companies navigate blockbuster deals and secure key high court rulings.

  • January 31, 2019

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP racked up a high-stakes victory at the U.S. Supreme Court on jurisdictional questions in Clean Water Rule suits and convinced the justices to keep alive a challenge to the scope of the Endangered Species Act, landing the firm a spot among Law360's 2018 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2019

    Environmental Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP's role in getting an international tribunal to declare fraudulent a roughly $9.5 billion award against Chevron in an Ecuadorian pollution case earned it a spot among Law360's 2018 Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2019

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells secured a win before the D.C. Circuit in its bid to remove a client's site from the National Priorities List of environmental cleanup sites and helped the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority comply with environmental standards and deal with the catastrophic aftermath of hurricanes Maria and Irma, landing the firm among Law360's 2018 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2019

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's attorneys scored several high-profile victories in environmental litigation in 2018, including defeating a suit in Florida claiming International Paper Co. was responsible for flooding that damaged scores of homes, securing the firm a place among Law360's Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2019

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC doubled down on claims government officials should be held individually responsible for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, earning it a spot among Law360's 2018 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2019

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2018 Practice Group of the Year awards, which honor the law firms behind the litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry in the past year.

  • January 11, 2019

    The Firms That Dominated In 2018

    Law360's top four Firms of the Year notched a combined 32 Practice Group of the Year awards after successfully securing wins in bet-the-company matters and closing high-profile, big-ticket deals for clients throughout 2018.

  • January 25, 2018

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Nossaman

    Nossaman LLP’s environmental work, including representing Arizona in its efforts to build a $1.8 billion highway and representing the Kern County Water Agency on an $18 billion water project in California, helped its clients move forward with major developments and protected them during litigation, earning it a spot among Law360’s Environmental Groups of the Year.

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