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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.
  • January 23, 2018

    Employment Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP showcased the breadth of its labor and employment practice last year by notching wins in a series of noncompete disputes and a U.S. Supreme Court appeal, earning itself a spot among Law360’s 2017 Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2018

    Employment Group Of The Year: Ogletree Deakins

    Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has spent the past year defending employers on wide-ranging issues, such as securing an appellate win for C.H. Robinson on its use of an arbitration clause in its incentive bonus agreement, making the firm one of Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2018

    Employment Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    In 2017, King & Spalding LLP helped secure a settlement for Bass Pro in an EEOC systemic discrimination suit, win a Sixth Circuit appeal for Meritor in retiree health benefits litigation and defend Peabody Energy from an ERISA stock drop suit, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 18, 2018

    Employment Group Of The Year: Outten & Golden

    In the past year, Outten & Golden LLP has gotten results for workers across the U.S. that include a pair of settlements for police and airline pilots in respective class actions brought under a federal law aiding veteran employees, earning itself a nod as one of Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2018

    Employment Group Of The Year: Seyfarth Shaw

    Seyfarth Shaw’s employment lawyers worked on three cases involving the U.S. Supreme Court while defeating two major lawsuits brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, securing the firm its seventh consecutive spot among Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2018

    Employment Group Of The Year: Littler Mendelson

    Many pieces of Obama-era labor and employment policy fell in 2017, and no private group of lawyers did more on that front than Littler Mendelson PC, earning the workplace-focused superboutique a spot among Law360's Labor and Employment 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

    Employment Group Of The Year: Seyfarth Shaw

    Trimming what was left of a once-150,000-strong class suit against Wells Fargo down to just a handful of individuals and scoring a $3 billion jury verdict victory for HP in a contract case won Seyfarth Shaw's employment litigators a spot among Law360's 2016 Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2017

    Employment Group Of The Year: Sanford Heisler

    Sanford Heisler LLP in 2016 secured more than $3 million under a Title IX suit for the retaliatory termination of a female college basketball coach and struck a $19.5 million settlement with Qualcomm Technologies Inc. over discrimination allegations concerning thousands of female employees, securing it a spot among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2017

    Employment Group Of The Year: Outten & Golden

    It’s not every year a firm settles a suit involving a class of nearly a half-million people. Outten & Golden LLP’s class action practice did just that, resolving a massive disparate impact suit last year against the U.S. Census Bureau and easily earning itself a nod as one of Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2017

    Employment Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn scored a major victory for Uber Technologies Inc. when the Ninth Circuit in September said drivers fighting background checks the company ran must arbitrate their cases and cannot act as a class, helping the firm’s employment group once again earn a spot as one of Law360’s Employment Practice Groups of 2016.

  • January 20, 2017

    Employment Group Of The Year: Akin Gump

    Between beating back four class actions against Home Depot and helping the NFL restore star quarterback Tom Brady’s Deflategate suspension, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s labor and employment team easily earned a spot among 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 25, 2016

    Employment Group Of The Year: Seyfarth Shaw

    For much of the past year, Seyfarth Shaw LLP has been at the forefront of several high-profile cases involving the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that have set new precedents across a wide swath of labor law, including one instance in which the firm helped Case New Holland Industries Inc. successfully sue the agency to beat back an underlying age bias probe, landing the firm a spot among Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2016

    Employment Group Of The Year: Orrick

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP continued to establish itself as a leader in the employment sector last year by helping guide clients like Kleiner Perkins to decisive court victories in the much-watched Pao gender bias suit and helping Sephora defeat a wage-and-hour class action, making it one of Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2016

    Employment Group of the Year: Ogletree Deakins

    Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC handled some of the biggest labor matters of the year, including the Browning Ferris and Banner Health cases before the NLRB and the Mach Mining case before the Supreme Court, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2016

    Employment Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP was involved in not one, but two unanimous victories for employers last year at the U.S. Supreme Court on the issues of health benefits and employee pay, earning the group a spot on Law360's list of Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2016

    Employment Group Of The Year: Lieff Cabraser

    Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP helped developers at some of the world's biggest technology companies score $435 million in settlements over an alleged plot not to cold-call one another's programmers, earning the group a spot on Law360's list of Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2016

    Employment Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    From obtaining a major en banc victory for Ford in an Americans with Disabilities Act case to nabbing the reversal of a roughly $90 million judgment in a rest break dispute, Gibson Dunn racked up a string of wins in 2015, landing it on Law360's list of Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2016

    Employment Group Of The Year: Akin Gump

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s employment practice helped get a client of the hook for a $100 million pension payment and prompted a judge in another case to cite Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler” when ordering a federal agency to pay about $1 million in attorneys’ fees, earning a spot among Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • December 18, 2015

    The Firms That Dominated In 2015

    Three legal stalwarts landed at the top of the pack in 2015 to take the title of Law360's Firms of the Year, bolstered by their combined 27 Practice Group of the Year wins and their deft handling of high-stakes, high-profile work.

  • December 18, 2015

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Group of the Year awards, given to those firms that came through for clients by sealing the biggest deals and securing wins in high-stakes litigation.

  • December 18, 2015

    4 Firms Are Labor And Employment All-Stars

    Four firms have consistently shown they can win big in significant labor and employment cases, each racking up multiple employment practice groups of the year wins in the past five years.

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