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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 16, 2015

    Employment Group Of The Year: Seyfarth Shaw

    For their work securing major precedent-setting decisions and helping to defuse cases against defendants including Kaplan Higher Education Corp. and Prospect Mortgage LLC, Seyfarth Shaw LLP has landed a spot among Law360’s Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2015

    Employment Group Of The Year: Sanford Heisler

    Sanford Heisler Kimpel LLP’s work in securing three class certifications and pushing two others past the pleadings stage amid an increasingly difficult legal climate has made it the sole employee-side firm to land on Law360’s Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2015

    Employment Group Of The Year: Ogletree Deakins

    Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC spent the past year expanding its practice while helping D.R. Horton Inc. rack up a big win against the National Labor Relations Board in the Fifth Circuit and representing Browning-Ferris Industries of California Inc. in a case that could have repercussions on the board's joint-employer standard, making the firm one of Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2015

    Employment Group of the Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP helped argue three employment cases to the U.S. Supreme Court, scored a first-of-its-kind class certification defeat against unpaid interns and defended a biometric screening wellness program, netting the firm a spot on Law360’s Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2015

    Employment Group Of the Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day in 2014 not only secured critical U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the donning and doffing of workplace outfits and recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board but also helped Detroit resolve a web of labor matters in its historic bankruptcy, landing the firm among Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2015

    Employment Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn's labor and employment group continued its winning ways last year with key victories in the Fifth and Ninth circuits that beat back class actions on behalf of clients UBS Financial Services Inc. and Michaels Stores Inc., earning the group a spot on Law360's Practice Group of the Year list.

  • December 19, 2014

    Law360 Names Law Firms Of The Year

    Showcasing strength in numbers and the agility needed to serve up top-notch client service on a number of fronts, two law firms secured a combined 18 Law360 Practice Group of the Year awards in 2014 to earn the distinction of Law360's Firms of the Year.

  • December 19, 2014

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year, awarded to firms that came through for their clients in 2014, sealing the big deals and winning the high-stakes suits.

  • February 03, 2014

    Employment Group Of The Year: Seyfarth Shaw

    Seyfarth Shaw LLP's labor and employment attorneys deployed their signature "offensive defense" to rack up an impressive string of wins in 2013 that included defeating a closely watched U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity credit-check case, earning the firm its third consecutive spot among Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2014

    Employment Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings

    Paul Hastings LLP's labor and employment team earned a noteworthy Sixth Circuit win that stemmed from sweeping gender discrimination against Cintas Corp. and scored a victory for Kmart Corp. in the first California suitable seating class action to make it to trial, landing it among Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year for the second straight year.

  • January 30, 2014

    Employment Group Of The Year: Ogletree Deakins

    Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC earned its spot on Law360's list of employment groups of the year in 2013 with a pair of major wins against the National Labor Relations Board that set an important precedent in favor of class waivers and helped defeat the agency's controversial posting requirement.

  • January 29, 2014

    Employment Group of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day labor and employment lawyers secured a blockbuster D.C. Circuit victory for soda bottler Noel Canning before defending that win at the U.S. Supreme Court, and are also helping bankrupt Detroit with its massive restructuring, just two of the engagements that put Jones Day among Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year for a third time.

  • January 28, 2014

    Employment Group Of The Year: Greenberg Traurig

    Greenberg Traurig LLP's labor and employment practice lived up to its reputation for not backing down from a fight in 2013, winning a major Fair Labor Standards Act case at the Supreme Court, defeating a wage class action in a jury trial and earning a spot among Law360's employment practice groups of the year.

  • January 27, 2014

    Employment Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's labor and employment team recently defeated a bid to certify a class of around 150,000 women in Betty Dukes' gender bias case against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and convinced the Nevada Supreme Court to permit a Wynn Casino Las Vegas tip-sharing policy, landing the firm among Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year for the third time running.

  • January 24, 2014

    Employment Group Of The Year: Akin Gump

    Attorneys in Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's labor and employment practice group secured a series of impressive victories in 2013, helping clients beat back cutting edge legal claims over their tipping, arbitration and background check policies and landing the firm a spot among Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 01, 2014

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 is pleased to announce the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards, given to firms that excelled at getting the job done for clients in litigation and deals in 2013.

  • January 23, 2013

    Employment Group Of The Year: Seyfarth Shaw

    With an innovative approach that helped it secure a first-of-a-kind dismissal of discrimination claims against Family Dollar Stores Inc. and decertify class in a wage-and-hour suit against Allstate Insurance Co., Seyfarth Shaw LLP had a year worthy of a spot among Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2013

    Employment Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings

    Paul Hastings LLP's labor and employment lawyers won a blockbuster overtime case at the U.S. Supreme Court for drug company GlaxoSmithKline and helped bankrupt American Airlines Inc. make crucial moves to cut labor costs, two of the achievements that earned them a place among Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 18, 2013

    Employment Group Of The Year: Morrison & Foerster

    Employment attorneys from Morrison & Foerster LLP notched many notable wins last year, but in finally settling the lingering question of whether California employers are required to ensure that meal breaks are taken, the firm easily earned itself a spot on Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2013

    Employment Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    From guiding General Motors LLC and Verizon Communications Inc. in groundbreaking pension derisking transactions to overturning two trial courts' rulings regarding pharmaceutical and steel industry workers' overtime, Jones Day's extensive 2012 employment victories landed them a place among Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2013

    Employment Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    From steering the Third Circuit toward a new test for determining joint employer relationships to preventing class certification in wage suits against Tenet Healthcare Corp. and Sunrise Senior Living Management Inc., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's labor and employment practice group scored an impressive series of wins in 2012 that earned the group a spot on Law360's list of Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 01, 2013

    Law360 Selects Top Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 is pleased to announce the winners of this year's Practice Groups of the Year award.

  • January 09, 2012

    Employment Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    This past year, Sidley Austin LLP attorneys successfully defended a California hospital in a case with nationwide implications for regular rate overtime calculations, one of many achievements that earned the firm's employment group a spot among Law360's Employment Groups of 2011.

  • January 06, 2012

    Employment Group Of The Year: Seyfarth Shaw

    Seyfarth Shaw LLP filed two amicus briefs that helped shape the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, and then used the Dukes ruling to successfully fight collective action and class certification in cases against Farmers Insurance Exchange and Costco Wholesale Corp., landing the firm's labor and employment team a spot among Law360's Employment Groups of 2011.

  • January 05, 2012

    Employment Group Of The Year: Orrick

    In the face of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC employees claiming compelled patronage, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's employment attorneys successfully fought back with a unique application of federal securities law, just one feat that landed them among Law360's Employment Groups of 2011.

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