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 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 22, 2018

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Labaton Sucharow

    Labaton Sucharow LLP helped clients recoup over $300 million from major banks in antitrust litigation over foreign exchange rates and $47 million in a securities suit over a multilevel marketing company’s behavior in China, placing it among Law360’s Class Action Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2018

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells in 2017 handled a variety of class actions and multidistrict litigation for big-name clients including Mylan NV and Anthem Insurance Co., securing victories such as a precedential decision for Hormel Food Corp. in a false labeling class action to earn it a spot among Law360’s Class Action Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 18, 2018

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Capitalizing on recent landmark victories at the U.S. Supreme Court, Mayer Brown's class action practice proved itself a leader in the arena once again in 2017, fending off class actions for some of the most recognizable brands in the world and advancing case law to prevent frivolous class actions under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, earning it yet another spot as one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2018

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Seeger Weiss

    Seeger Weiss LLP proved itself to be a David unafraid of Goliath-style litigation last year, with firm attorneys’ leading role in the settlement of the Volkswagen clean diesel litigation earning it a place among Law360’s Class Action Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2018

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Susman Godfrey

    Susman Godfrey LLP continued to push for victories in class actions varying from auto parts purchasers to film animators in the past year, proving the firm's role as a litigation powerhouse and landing it among Law360's Class Action Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2018

    The Firms That Dominated In 2017

    Law360’s Firms of the Year rose above the competition with a combined 24 Practice Group of the Year awards after helping their clients win game-changing judgments and close record-breaking deals in 2017. Here’s a closer look at how they landed at the top.

  • January 12, 2018

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2017 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 26, 2017

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Susman Godfrey

    During a year marked by millions in settlements for auto part customers, rock stars and animators, Susman Godfrey LLP’s success in a series of complex — and wildly different — class actions earned it a place among Law360’s Class Action Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2017

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Its successful efforts to defend clients across a broad range of industries, headlined by its winning defense work in the U.S. Supreme Court’s landscape-shifting Spokeo case, have earned Mayer Brown LLP’s class action practice a spot in Law360’s 2016 Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2017

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Labaton Sucharow

    Leveraging its laser focus on class action litigation and a hard-hitting investigations unit, Labaton Sucharow LLP scored multiple influential and high-dollar awards in securities, antitrust and derivative shareholder lawsuits, earning the firm a place among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2017

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    By helping big-name clients like Uber, Toyota and PepsiCo either clip class action suits, limit their exposure to class claims or reach favorable group settlements, Gibson Dunn has once again earned a spot on Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2017

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    With a series of notable victories across a variety of practice areas — topped by an $835 million settlement that concluded more than a decade of litigation against The Dow Chemical Co. — Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC secured itself a repeat selection as one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2017

    The Firms That Dominated In 2016

    Law360's Firms of the Year rose above the competition in 2016 by earning a combined 20 Practice Group of the Year awards on the strength of work that helped their clients attain game-changing judgments and close record deals.

  • January 09, 2017

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2016 Practice Group of the Year awards, the law firms that racked up victories in litigation and closed the big deals to make their mark among clients and throughout the legal industry.

  • January 14, 2016

    Class Action Group Of The Year: White & Case

    White & Case LLP’s class action practice had another blockbuster year, helping clients avoid billions of dollars in potential liability and establishing novel legal theories in the process to land a spot among Law360’s Class Action Practice Groups of the Year for the third time in five years.

  • January 13, 2016

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    The unique approach Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP takes to class actions secured major triumphs for notable corporate powerhouses like CBS Sterling Jewelers and Procter & Gamble over the past 12 months, sealing the global firm's place on Law360's Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2016

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    In a year that included big victories for longtime client Goldman Sachs, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP also helped Barclays escape multidistrict litigation involving high-frequency trading and helped detained immigrants with mental disabilities secure a right to legal representation, earning it a place among Law360's Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2016

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP scored major class action successes on the plaintiff and defense sides in the past year, from a nearly $2 billion settlement in antitrust litigation against investment banks to defenses on behalf of Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive and Hyundai, earning selection as one of Law360's Class Action Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 08, 2016

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis & Bockius

    A string of impressive victories throughout 2015, including persuading the U.S. Supreme Court to toss out a decades-old precedent in a case over caps on retiree health benefits, has earned Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP a place among Law360's Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • January 07, 2016

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Labaton Sucharow

    By steering shareholders to a historic settlement with a mining giant and continuing to pioneer new antitrust and securities matters, Labaton Sucharow LLP has landed among Law360's Class Action Practice Groups of the Year for the third time in four years.

  • January 06, 2016

    Class Action Group of the Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn’s class action lawyers in 2015 racked up an impressive string of victories in state and federal courts, securing the dismissal of billions’ worth of putative class claims across a wide breadth of industries, earning the firm Class Action Group of the Year status for the sixth time in a row.

  • January 05, 2016

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    Mammoth settlements in mortgage-backed securities litigation, including settlements of $335 million for investors in securities from Residential Accredit Loans Inc. and a $500 million class action settlement with JPMorgan Chase, have earned Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC a place among Law360's Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • January 04, 2016

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz

    Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP's class action group recovered more than $1 billion for clients in 2015, including a record-setting $500 million settlement over Bear Stearns' sale of mortgage-backed securities, landing it among Law360's Class Action Groups of the Year.

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