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 20, 2022

    IP Group Of The Year: Fish & Richardson

    Fish & Richardson PC helped Gilead unit Kite Pharma escape a $1.2 billion judgment and got a $235 million induced infringement verdict against Teva Pharmaceuticals reinstated, earning it a place among Law360's 2021 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2022

    IP Group Of The Year: DLA Piper

    DLA Piper's intellectual property practice group handled a long-running copyright battle over a comic book mashup of Dr. Seuss and "Star Trek," along with other high-profile cases, landing the team a spot among Law360's 2021 IP 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 07, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP won a $1.1 billion verdict for the California Institute of Technology against Apple and Broadcom in one of the largest patent verdicts in history, earning it a spot among Law360's 2020 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • December 04, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP spearheaded 3M's use of trademark law to target price gouging of its masks during the COVID-19 pandemic and represented Spotify in a high-profile fight over streaming royalty rates, earning it a place among Law360's 2020 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • December 03, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's intellectual property practice group secured a trademark win for Lucky Brand in the U.S. Supreme Court and a major victory for Motorola in a trade secrets case against competitor Hytera, earning them a spot as one of Law360's 2020 IP Groups of the Year.

  • December 02, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Irell

    Irell & Manella LLP was able to help PanOptis and related companies gain a $506 million jury win in a patent infringement case — the country's first in-person jury trial over patents since the COVID-19 pandemic led to nationwide court closures — earning the firm a place among Law360's 2020 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • December 01, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Fish & Richardson

    Fish & Richardson PC helped Gilead dodge a historic $2.54 billion patent infringement verdict and secured a $175 million settlement to put longstanding litigation over power supply controller chips to bed, earning it a place as one of Law360's 2020 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • November 30, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Debevoise

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's intellectual property practice group scored numerous trademark victories for its clients, including Booking.com in a high-profile case at the U.S. Supreme Court, landing it a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property 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 17, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Perkins Coie

    The intellectual property team at Perkins Coie LLP notched a victory at the Federal Circuit for Mylan Pharmaceuticals that allowed it to proceed with a generic cancer drug, and secured a $5 million patent win for Riddell Inc., earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's intellectual property group scored major victories on behalf of its technology clients, including a $268 million judgment in a lawsuit over a hearing aid implant patent, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day represented Qualcomm in its multibillion-dollar licensing war with Apple and challenged a series of patents on behalf of Google, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2019 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Goodwin Procter

    Goodwin Procter LLP landed a major win for Teva Pharmaceuticals in a U.S. Supreme Court decision that clarified the scope of the so-called on-sale bar under the America Invents Act, as well as helped Dr. Reddy's Laboratories defend its generic version of an opioid treatment, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Finnegan

    Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP over the past year has defended the Vagisil brand name and the copyright of an iconic guitar used by the founder of Pantera, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2019 Intellectual Property 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 22, 2019

    IP Group Of The Year: Susman Godfrey

    Susman Godfrey LLP delivered a $706.2 million trial verdict for HouseCanary in a trade secrets case over real estate valuation technology, and defended Uber against Waymo in the companies' self-driving car trade secret battle, securing a spot among Law360's IP Groups of the Year.

  • January 18, 2019

    IP Group Of The Year: McKool Smith

    McKool Smith PC's intellectual property attorneys notched key wins at the U.S. International Trade Commission and the federal courts, including a $110 million verdict awarded to Ericsson Inc. and favorable rulings against Apple and Comcast, landing them among Law360's Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2019

    IP Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    The intellectual property team at Jones Day achieved a slew of victories in 2018 but perhaps none more significant than a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board must decide the validity of every challenged patent claim when it agrees to institute America Invents Act review, cementing the firm's spot among Law360's IP Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2019

    IP Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP scored a victory on behalf of Fox News in a closely watched copyright case against a television search engine, and also secured a $93 million patent win for Schlumberger Ltd. unit WesternGeco, landing it a spot as one of Law360's IP Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2019

    IP Group Of The Year: Fish & Richardson

    Fish & Richardson PC successfully overturned two major jury verdicts — including the largest patent infringement award in U.S. history — for its client Gilead Sciences Inc., while also notching victories for companies such as Altair Engineering Inc. and Velcro USA Inc., earning the firm a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2019

    IP Group Of The Year: Desmarais

    Desmarais LLP netted a $400 million settlement for Cisco Systems Inc. against network equipment rival Arista Networks Inc. and secured an $82.5 million verdict for IBM Corp. as the technology giant cruised through its first jury trial as a plaintiff in a patent infringement case, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

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