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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.
  • 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.

  • January 08, 2014

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    Sidley Austin LLP attorneys' work on challenges to controversial U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules, including greenhouse gas emissions and cross-state air pollution rules currently being weighed by the U.S. Supreme Court, has earned the firm a spot for the fourth straight year among Law360's Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 07, 2014

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins LLP’s environmental team cemented its place at the forefront of climate change regulation in 2013, helping a coalition of industry players influence new rules for power plant emissions, and won a rare stay of a Clean Air Act rule on behalf of Edison Mission Energy and others, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 06, 2014

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    From taking a lead role on BP America Inc.'s team in the vast Deepwater Horizon litigation to thwarting an effort to reopen old asbestos settlements to handling the environmental analysis required in Bain Capital Partners LLC's $1.6 billion acquisition of a global tool manufacturer, Kirkland & Ellis LLP's environmental attorneys have earned their spot on Law360's Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 03, 2014

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Hunton & Williams

    The Hunton & Williams LLP environmental team is playing a lead role in two challenges to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's rulemaking regarding greenhouse gas emissions and cross-state air pollution, landing the practice group on Law360's list of Environmental Groups of 2013.

  • January 02, 2014

    Environmental Group Of The Year: DLA Piper

    DLA Piper's environmental group toppled a staggering $1 billion punitive damages award against Exxon Mobil Corp. in landmark litigation over a major gas leak before Maryland's highest court, securing its place among Law360's Environmental 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 08, 2013

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    Sidley Austin LLP attorneys leveraged their regulatory and litigation experience to convince courts to strike down a pair of federal air emissions rules and a state carbon fuel standard and to help NCR Corp. escape arranger liability in a suit over the $1 billion cleanup of the nation's largest Superfund site, earning them a place among Law360's Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 07, 2013

    Environmental Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP's work defending Chevron Corp. and other clients against potentially costly public nuisance claims tied to greenhouse gas emissions and delivering the energy giant a favorable verdict in a key groundwater contamination trial have earned the law firm's expanding environmental practice a spot on Law360's list of 2012 practice groups of the year.

  • January 04, 2013

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Hunton & Williams

    For its lead role in defeating the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's cross-state air pollution rule to its innovative work developing a cap-and-trade program for nutrients entering the Ohio River, Hunton & Williams LLP has earned a place on Law360's list of Environmental Groups of 2012.

  • January 03, 2013

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Baker Botts

    A wide range of achievements across the environmental spectrum, including the successful challenge of a federal cross-state air pollution rule and the licensing of pioneering radioactive waste disposal and carbon capture projects, has earned attorneys from Baker Botts LLP a place on Law360's list of Environmental Groups of 2012.

  • January 02, 2013

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Arnold & Porter

    Arnold & Porter LLP lawyers overturned unprecedented numeric standards for nutrient levels in Florida, scored a ruling that the Clean Air Act preempts state law tort claims over federal emissions violations and helped BP PLC resolve a plethora of environmental issues lingering from the Deepwater Horizon spill, earning them a spot on Law360's list of Environmental Groups of 2012.

  • 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

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    In 2011's landmark climate change victory for power companies, Sidley Austin LLP convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that the Clean Air Act trumped federal common law claims and spared its client American Electric Power Co. Inc. from a nuisance suit over greenhouse gases, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2011.

  • January 06, 2012

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP's environmental group tackled cutting-edge issues in helping Dow Chemical Co. dodge a high court challenge to the dismissal of novel greenhouse gas tort claims and persuading the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take the unusual step of reconsidering the agency's final rule on boiler emission standards, earning it a place among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2011.

  • January 05, 2012

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's environmental group recently scored victories crossing practice areas, brokering cleanup deals to usher Chemtura Corp. out of a high-profile bankruptcy and working on high-stakes transactions, earning it a place among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2011.

  • January 04, 2012

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day achieved a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling blocking federal common law nuisance claims over greenhouse gas emissions and rescued multiple coal-fired plants from the threat of massive Clean Air Act penalties for the actions of prior owners, making it home to one of Law360's Environmental Practice Groups of 2011.

  • January 03, 2012

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Hunton & Williams

    Hunton & Williams LLP's environmental practice group secured groundbreaking triumphs in cases of first impression over climate change nuisance claims and Clean Air Act permitting rules last year, earning it a place as one of Law360's Environmental Groups of 2011.

  • January 27, 2011

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Sidley

    Sidley Austin LLP convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to hear game-changing global warming litigation and secured a win for Duke Energy Corp. that could impact the enforcement of the Clean Air Act, earning it a place among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2010.

  • January 26, 2011

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's environmental litigators won a sweeping appellate victory for Dow Chemical Co. in the Rocky Flats radioactive waste case last year, while its transactional team smoothed the path out of bankruptcy for two chemical companies, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2010.

  • January 25, 2011

    Environmental Group Of The Year: King & Spalding LLP

    With courtroom victories in the closely watched tri-state water wars cases and the defeat of landmark climate change litigation against several major oil and gas companies, King & Spalding LLP has earned a spot among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2010.

  • January 24, 2011

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day won court victories in tough Clean Air Act and global warming fights, including major rulings for Midwest Generation LLC and Xcel Energy Inc., earning it a reputation as a top environmental litigation firm and a place among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2010.

  • January 21, 2011

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Hunton & Williams

    Hunton & Williams LLP saved the Tennessee Valley Authority from spending more than $1 billion to install emissions controls at four coal-fired power plants and helped the American Farm Bureau Federation and others invalidate a policy directive that would have subjected millions of acres of farmland to regulation under the Clean Water Act, earning it a spot among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2010.

  • January 20, 2011

    Law360's Environmental Groups Of The Year

    In the face of burgeoning nuisance litigation over climate change and pollution suits seeking billions of dollars in damages, some law firms' environmental practices stood out by helping major corporations toss cases brought by federal regulators, state governments and conservation groups, earning them a spot among Law360's Environmental Groups Of 2010.

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