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.
  • February 11, 2026

    Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Baker Botts

    Attorneys in Baker Botts LLP's intellectual property practice successfully resolved a patent infringement case against Ericsson after wiping out a monster verdict against the company and fended off a decade-long licensing case against MasterCard, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • February 11, 2026

    Construction Group Of The Year: Nossaman

    Nossaman LLP attorneys advised the city of Los Angeles on the close and groundbreaking of a $2.6 billion convention center renovation, and guided Georgia's tolled transportation authority on an $11 billion freeway project, landing the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Construction Groups of the Year.

  • February 11, 2026

    Fintech Group Of The Year: Skadden

    As the fintech sector continues to evolve and grow, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP is dominating from the legal side, leading more than a dozen fintech initial public offerings in 2025, including the $713 million IPO of eToro Group Ltd., and earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Fintech Groups of the Year.

  • February 11, 2026

    Employment Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP scored wins for several major companies over the last year, including a Second Circuit ruling for X Corp. that courts cannot compel payment of arbitration fees mid-proceeding and one for AstraZeneca in a nearly $50 million equal pay dispute, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.

  • February 11, 2026

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath scored a win for American Express, convincing a jury not to find it liable for plaintiffs' antitrust claims, and secured the dismissal of more than 50 lawsuits in MDL proceedings in Minnesota for Louis Dreyfus Co., earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 11, 2026

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Skadden

    From orchestrating one of the largest initial public offerings in 2025 to navigating Japan's biggest stock listing since 2018, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP demonstrated its ability to execute high-stakes transactions and continued to punch above its weight, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • February 11, 2026

    Banking Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's financial services practice steered Discover through its nearly $51 billion merger with Capital One and shepherded SVB Financial Group through its Chapter 11 proceedings after Silicon Valley Bank failed, earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • February 10, 2026

    International Trade Group Of The Year: Barnes & Thornburg

    Barnes & Thornburg LLP has been overseeing the federal government's largest export compliance monitorship and booked several wins for U.S. ceramic tile manufacturers, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Trade Groups of the Year.

  • February 10, 2026

    Technology Group Of The Year: Wilson Sonsini

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC's significant victories in high-profile cases, which included helping Google beat a $1.3 billion breach of contract claim over its digital advertising technology and assisting Via Transportation in netting almost $3.5 million in damages in a patent case, earned the firm a spot as a 2025 Law360 Technology Group of the Year.

  • February 10, 2026

    Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Wachtell Lipton

    An integrated approach allowed Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz to deftly pivot between transactional work — like the sale of the NBA's Boston Celtics — to representing the NFL's Cleveland Browns in their fight to relocate, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.

  • February 10, 2026

    Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP attorneys broke new ground in intellectual property matters last year, successfully defending Cisco in three big-dollar patent infringement cases and prevailing in a trademark dispute at the U.S. Supreme Court, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • February 10, 2026

    Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells helped clients prevail in protests challenging billion-dollar federal contract awards and guided Lockheed Martin and other companies through major aerospace and defense acquisitions, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.

  • February 10, 2026

    Employment Group Of The Year: Duane Morris

    Duane Morris LLP helped Geico defang a sweeping collective action claiming it underpaid call center workers and defeated a harassment class action targeting tortilla maker El Milagro, allowing the companies to dodge millions in potential damages and earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.

  • February 10, 2026

    Fintech Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings

    Paul Hastings LLP's fintech work has spanned the industry in the past year, from leading FTX's official committee of unsecured creditors through a historic crypto bankruptcy, to counseling Wyoming through the launch of the first state-issued stablecoin and shaping the earned wage access dialogue with its representation of EarnIn, securing its place among the 2025 Law360 Fintech Groups of the Year.

  • February 10, 2026

    Competition Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Attorneys from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP helped bring long-running litigation over alleged Libor manipulation to an end, while steering Mattress Firm to a win over a challenge of its $5 billion acquisition by Tempur Sealy, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2025 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 10, 2026

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Cooley

    Cooley LLP advised MapLight Therapeutics in its $250 million stock launch and concurrent private placement during a historic U.S. government shutdown by employing a strategy that had not been used for IPOs in nearly a century, placing the firm among the 2025 Law360 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • February 10, 2026

    Banking Group Of The Year: Orrick

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's attorneys secured billions of dollars' worth of victories for major financial institutions over the past year, including a more than $282 million judgment tied to a collapsed fintech company and decisive appellate and trial wins in liability management and IPO litigation, earning it a place among the 2025 Law360 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2026

    Banking Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's financial institutions team helped guide TD Bank to a record-setting U.S. anti-money laundering resolution while also defending Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and Mastercard in high-stakes antitrust litigation, earning it a place among the 2025 Law360 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2026

    Technology Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP worked on multiple technology matters over the past year worth billions of dollars, including advising the underwriters in SailPoint's nearly $1.4 billion initial public offering and helping Qorvo on a $22 billion merger with Skyworks, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Technology Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2026

    Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: ArentFox Schiff

    ArentFox Schiff LLP advised the Los Angeles Lakers through a landmark $10 billion valuation and majority stake sale, and helped the rapidly expanding National Women's Soccer League award its 16th franchise in Denver, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2026

    International Trade Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP's trade practice was able to assist a Toyota unit through a major U.S. emissions fraud dispute and secured several other significant resolutions for clients across a wide range of matters, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Trade Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2026

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Kline & Specter

    Kline & Specter PC won multiple major verdicts against Bayer unit Monsanto over the company's Roundup weedkiller product over the last year, including a $78 million award in Philadelphia and a $2.1 billion verdict in Georgia, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2026

    Fintech Group Of The Year: Cleary

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP's attorneys recently secured landmark victories for leaders of some of the largest digital asset companies, defeating the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in precedent-setting enforcement actions, securing billions in recoveries in a bankruptcy and shaping regulatory frameworks for the future of fintech, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Fintech Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2026

    Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Susman Godfrey

    Susman Godfrey LLP attorneys in the past year achieved some of the most closely watched victories in copyright, privacy and life sciences, including a record-setting copyright class settlement over books Anthropic obtained to train its flagship artificial intelligence model, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2026

    Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Bradley Arant

    Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP continued to showcase its bid protest prowess, including by securing a landmark ruling from the U.S. Government Accountability Office that confirmed a binding price risk analysis obligation for government agencies, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.