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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 30, 2012

    Class Action Group of the Year: Sidley Austin

    In the past year, Sidley Austin LLP attorneys successfully defended AT&T Corp. in one of the largest class actions ever certified and persuaded plaintiffs questioning the integrity of Taco Bell Corp.'s seasoned beef products to drop their suit — just a few examples of why Sidley Austin's class action team is named one of Law360's Class Action Groups of 2011.

  • January 27, 2012

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a game-changing decision in favor of AT&T Mobility LLC in a closely watched case over class action waivers in arbitration agreements and got a nationwide class decertified in a case against American Honda Motor Co. — just two of several cases that landed Mayer Brown a place among Law360's Class Action Groups of 2011.

  • January 26, 2012

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's skilled trial attorneys beat back large, long-running class actions against clients Raytheon Co., The Dow Chemical Co. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., earning them a spot among Law360's Class Action Practice Groups of 2011.

  • January 25, 2012

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Being on the winning team in the Wal-Mart v. Dukes ruling would have been enough to secure Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's position among last year's elite law firms, but it was just one of many decisive victories that earned the firm a place among Law360's Class Action Groups of 2011.

  • January 27, 2011

    Class Action Group Of The Year: White & Case

    White & Case LLP attorneys won a major antitrust class action victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010, holding that the Federal Arbitration Act does not permit courts to impose arbitration when a contract is silent on the issue, along with numerous state and district court victories, earning the firm a place among Law360's Class Action Groups of 2010.

  • January 26, 2011

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Skadden

    As investors pointed fingers in the wake of the credit crisis, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP convinced the courts that the actions of Societe Generale Group, Radian Group Inc. and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce weren't to blame, one of several reasons the firm is one of Law360's Class Action Groups of 2010.

  • January 25, 2011

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    In 2010, Sidley Austin LLP earned a groundbreaking win for American Honda Motor Co. Inc. when it convinced a court to decertify a class action over allegedly defective motorcycles, one of several noteworthy successes that landed the firm among Law360's Class Action Groups of 2010.

  • January 24, 2011

    Class Action Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP's work on behalf of pharmaceutical, financial, retail and other companies, including a rare U.S. Supreme Court stay of a judgment ordering a group of tobacco giants to pay $270 million to fund a 10-year smoking cessation program, has earned the firm a place among Law360's Class Action Groups of 2010.

  • January 21, 2011

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    With big wins that included convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal of the certification of a class of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. employees, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP earned a spot among Law360's Class Action Groups of 2010.

  • January 20, 2011

    Law360's Class Action Groups Of The Year

    In another year of hotly contested class actions, a handful of firms stood out for their ability to score results that not only protected their clients but also put them in stronger, more defensible positions for future litigation, earning those firms a spot among Law360's Class Action Groups of 2010.

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