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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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January 26, 2017
Class Action Group Of The Year: Susman Godfrey
During a year marked by millions in settlements for auto part customers, rock stars and animators, Susman Godfrey LLP’s success in a series of complex — and wildly different — class actions earned it a place among Law360’s Class Action Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 26, 2017
Securities Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly
Williams & Connolly LLP scored defining victories in 2016 surrounding the financial crisis eight years earlier, such as the Second Circuit’s reversal of a roughly $1.3 billion penalty against Bank of America Corp. regarding a mortgage program, securing a spot as one of Law360's Securities Groups of the Year.
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January 26, 2017
Energy Group Of The Year: Vinson & Elkins
Energy law giant Vinson & Elkins navigated billion-dollar deals and used its global and varied resources to remain a central force in the sector’s IPO space, which accelerated at the end of 2016 after a long drought, and helped a major client that wanted to back out of a merger over tax concerns defend itself, winning a spot among Law360’s Practice Groups of the Year for the seventh straight year.
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January 26, 2017
IP Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP won a U.S. Supreme Court victory for Samsung in its long-running smartphone patent dispute with Apple, a decision that could shift the law on design patent damages and that earned the firm a place among Law360's 2016 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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January 25, 2017
Class Action Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown
Its successful efforts to defend clients across a broad range of industries, headlined by its winning defense work in the U.S. Supreme Court’s landscape-shifting Spokeo case, have earned Mayer Brown LLP’s class action practice a spot in Law360’s 2016 Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 25, 2017
Competition Group Of The Year: White & Case
White & Case LLP's competition team led the defense of the $54 billion merger between Anthem and Cigna and secured judgment in favor of a U.S. drywall manufacturer accused of price-fixing in a billion-dollar class action, placing it for the sixth consecutive year among Law360’s Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 25, 2017
Securities Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP’s securities litigation team pulled off landmark victories this year both at trial and in appellate courts at the state and federal levels, including a Second Circuit win that broadened the U.S. Supreme Court’s Omnicare decision, landing it among Law360's 2016 Securities Groups of the Year.
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January 25, 2017
Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins
Latham & Watkins LLP's entertainment, sports and media group aided in Legendary Entertainment's $3.5 billion purchase by a Chinese conglomerate and won key rulings for Live Nation and Ticketmaster in a high-profile antitrust suit brought by Songkick, winning a spot among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 25, 2017
Trials Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins
Adding to its long history of success in high-stakes trials, Latham & Watkins locked down some unexpected and come-from-behind victories over the past year for Emirates Bank, chipmaker Nvidia and Philip Morris, earning it a spot among Law360's 2016 Trials Groups of the Year.
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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.
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January 25, 2017
Energy Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
From guiding Tengizchevroil LLP through its $16 billion project financing for the $42.5 billion expansion and modification of upstream operations at a super-giant oilfield in Kazakhstan to advising Pepco Holdings on its $6.6 billion acquisition by Exelon Corp., Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s work in 2016 earned its energy team a spot among Law360’s 2016 Energy Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 25, 2017
IP Group Of The Year: Keker & Van Nest
Keker & Van Nest LLP secured victory at trial for Google Inc. in a closely watched, multibillion-dollar case where Oracle Corp. accused the Android operating system of copyright infringement, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2016 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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January 24, 2017
Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath
For its wins on behalf of high-profile clients in groundbreaking antitrust litigation, including the Second Circuit’s reversal of the U.S. Department of Justice's win against American Express, Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP’s competition team has earned a place among Law360’s Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 24, 2017
Energy Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP helped to defeat a widely publicized class action concerning nuclear power and represented Anadarko Petroleum Corp. in connection with Deepwater Horizon disaster-related litigation, underscoring the law firm’s ability to counsel across the energy industry and securing a place among Law360's Energy Groups of the Year.
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January 24, 2017
Securities Group of 2016: Robbins Geller
Record-breaking wins by Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP's securities team in the past year — including a $1.575 billion payout from HSBC Finance Corp. for defrauding shareholders as well as the largest shareholder class recovery ever in Tennessee — have earned the firm a place among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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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.
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January 24, 2017
Class Action Group Of The Year: Labaton Sucharow
Leveraging its laser focus on class action litigation and a hard-hitting investigations unit, Labaton Sucharow LLP scored multiple influential and high-dollar awards in securities, antitrust and derivative shareholder lawsuits, earning the firm a place among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 24, 2017
Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block
Jenner & Block LLP notched a major victory in 2016 with the reinstatement of a $48 million jury verdict it secured for Capitol Records and other music companies and obtained the dismissal of a copyright infringement suit against Jay Z, placing among Law360’s Media & Entertainment Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 24, 2017
Trials Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's litigators proved that they're a force to be reckoned with over the past year, guiding Samsung to victory in a hard-fought patent battle and helping Abbott Laboratories dodge a False Claims Act suit seeking more than $1 billion to land among Law360's Trials Groups of the Year.
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January 24, 2017
IP Group Of The Year: Irell & Manella
Irell & Manella LLP guided the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to a $234 million patent infringement verdict against Apple and helped get a Converse sneaker trademark asserted against Skechers invalidated at the U.S. International Trade Commission, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2016 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2017
Class Action Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
By helping big-name clients like Uber, Toyota and PepsiCo either clip class action suits, limit their exposure to class claims or reach favorable group settlements, Gibson Dunn has once again earned a spot on Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2017
Energy Group of the Year: Kirkland & Ellis
Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s relatively new energy practice offered a strong example of the firm’s all-weather capabilities in 2016, scooping up a formidable market share of energy restructuring work and pivoting nimbly into blockbuster private equity deals, moves that earned it a place among Law360’s Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2017
Trials Group Of The Year: Jones Day
Jones Day’s work securing for Idenix Pharmaceuticals the largest patent-infringement verdict in U.S. history, after a federal jury took less than two hours to award the company a multibillion-dollar royalty share of Gilead Sciences Inc.'s profits from two blockbuster hepatitis C drugs, makes the firm’s trials team one of Law360’s 2016 Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2017
Competition Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC inked an $835 million deal with Dow in a class action over price fixing and saw the Second Circuit uphold its $450 million settlement with Apple for conspiring with publishers to raise e-book prices, placing it on Law360’s 2016 list of Competition Practice Groups of the Year.
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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.