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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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January 24, 2025
Insurance Group Of The Year: Covington
From cementing Merck's win in a $1.4 billion cyber coverage dispute to securing insurance coverage for Tyco in sprawling multidistrict litigation over forever chemicals, Covington & Burling LLP's work in precedent-setting cases has earned it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Insurance Groups of the Year.
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January 24, 2025
Employment Group Of The Year: Shegerian & Associates
Shegerian & Associates won two jury trials for an oncologist in her gender discrimination lawsuit and secured a $14 million award for a bank manager who was fired for taking leave to care for her critically ill husband, earning the firm a place among the 2024 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 24, 2025
Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorneys worked some of the most notable intellectual property cases last year, including fighting off a sprawling $6 billion patent case against Intel Corp. and successfully defending a sports video game maker against copyright claims by a tattoo artist, earning the firm a place among the 2024 Law360 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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January 24, 2025
Banking Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown
Mayer Brown LLP's banking team secured the reversal of a $1 billion verdict against BMO Harris Bank over Thomas Petters' Ponzi scheme, achieved a landmark False Claims Act win for Citibank, and helped BNY Mellon beat claims over a financial crisis settlement, placing the firm among the 2024 Law360 Banking Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2025
Insurance Group Of The Year: O'Melveny
O'Melveny & Myers LLP attorneys scored important wins for insurers in pandemic business interruption litigation before the California Supreme Court and in a Ninth Circuit case on defense of numerous underlying opioid lawsuits, landing the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Insurance Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2025
Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Weil
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP clinched some of the largest deals of 2024 for big-name clients as diverse as The Home Depot, Sunoco, Cedar Fair and a consortium that includes Glencore PLC, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2025
Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Duane Morris
Duane Morris LLP attorneys helped vacate a $2.75 billion patent infringement verdict against Cisco Systems Inc. and won a jury trial for Roku Inc. with $318 million at stake, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2025
Banking Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's attorneys are advising Discover Financial Services in its historic planned merge with Capital One, steered Morgan Stanley away from criminal fines suggested by regulators, and have helped other big names bounce back from the banking crisis that rocked the industry in 2023, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Banking Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2025
Employment Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings
Paul Hastings LLP represents major companies like Nike and Google, and handled overlapping discrimination government investigations against video game company Activision Blizzard, ultimately notching settlements that closed the book on both probes, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2025
Real Estate Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Real estate attorneys at Kirkland & Ellis LLP played a big role in data center deals last year, including a $3.4 billion joint venture between Blue Owl and Crusoe Energy Systems, and worked on several more notable transactions, landing their practice a spot among the 2024 Law360 Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2025
Insurance Group Of The Year: Cohen Ziffer
Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP gained coverage for opioid litigation against Walmart Inc., convincing an Arkansas court that damages were sought in opioid cases because of bodily injuries, cementing the firm for the second year running among the 2024 Law360 Insurance Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2025
Construction Group Of The Year: Kaplan Kirsch
Kaplan Kirsch LLP guided a Denver transit authority's $150 million first-ever progressive design-build contract and the Chicago Transit Authority's historic $5.3 billion Red Line extension, earning its spot among the 2024 Law360 Construction Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2025
Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's mergers and acquisitions team clinched some of the biggest deals that reshaped the technology and media landscapes in the past year, including Cisco Systems' $28 billion purchase of Splunk and Paramount's $28 billion merger with Skydance Media, landing the law firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2025
Employment Group Of The Year: Epstein Becker
Epstein Becker Green's employment team convinced the Fifth Circuit to strike down a major U.S. Department of Labor rule governing employers' ability to take tip credits out of servers' wages, a blockbuster achievement that snagged it a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2025
Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Irell
Irell & Manella LLP won a $445 million infringement verdict for Netlist in Texas, less than a week after persuading a California federal jury that Samsung breached a contract with Netlist, earning the firm a place among the 2024 Law360 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2025
Banking Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Over the past year, the banking practice group at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP secured several wins for Goldman Sachs and guided alternative asset management firm Apollo Global Management through two major transactions — earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Banking Groups of the Year.
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January 21, 2025
Banking Group Of The Year: Cahill Gordon
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP earned dismissals in two shareholder securities class actions on behalf of Credit Suisse and UBS following the banks' merger, once again earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Banking Groups of the Year.
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January 21, 2025
Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP had a big 2024 highlighted by high-profile, blockbuster deals as diverse as Skydance Media's merger with Paramount Global, and Healthpeak's $21 billion merger with Physicians Realty Trust, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 21, 2025
Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis
The intellectual property group at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP clocked numerous wins in the past year, including a $58 million attorney fee award for representing Oracle in a software copyright battle and a win at the U.S. International Trade Commission for Korean drugmaker Hugel, making it one of the 2024 Law360 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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January 21, 2025
Insurance Group Of The Year: Wiley
Insurance lawyers at Wiley Rein LLP secured rulings that adopted a carrier's methodology for calculating business expenses under a cyber policy, and strengthened the distinction between civil and criminal defense costs under professional liability policies, helping the Washington, D.C., firm earn a spot among the 2024 Law360 Insurance Groups of the Year.
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January 21, 2025
Employment Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein
The plaintiff-side law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC snagged over $78 million last year in settlements for workers who'd faced discrimination on the job, including big payouts from both the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 17, 2025
Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.
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January 17, 2025
Law360 Names Firms Of The Year
Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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April 16, 2024
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Fenwick
Defending Novo Nordisk's patents for diabetes drug Ozempic and guiding Dice Therapeutics through its $2.4 billion acquisition by Eli Lilly & Co. are among the achievements that put Fenwick & West LLP among Law360's 2023 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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April 15, 2024
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Cooley
Cooley LLP advised Horizon Therapeutics during its massive sale to Amgen Inc. — defeating an antitrust challenge along the way — and helped Moderna Inc. win a patent case centering on its COVID-19 vaccine, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2023 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.