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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 12, 2015

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC’s antitrust group had a notable year, winning plaintiffs more than a billion dollars in major lawsuits challenging Apple Inc. and book publishers over price-fixing allegations in the e-book industry and Dow Chemical Co.’s alleged price-fixing activity in the polyurethane industry, earning the firm a spot on Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year list.

  • January 12, 2015

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn's appellate group spent 2014 raking in wins before the U.S. Supreme Court, including a game-changing verdict for CLS Bank International that abstract ideas implemented using a computer are not eligible for a patent, earning the law firm a spot among Law360’s Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2015

    Employment Group Of the Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day in 2014 not only secured critical U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the donning and doffing of workplace outfits and recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board but also helped Detroit resolve a web of labor matters in its historic bankruptcy, landing the firm among Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2015

    Gov't Contracts Group Of The Year: Dickstein Shapiro

    Dickstein Shapiro LLP's elite government contracts team boasted a slew of impressive wins over the past year, including a crucial bid protest victory that helped Wyle Laboratories Inc. wrestle a $1.76 billion NASA contract away from a key rival and secured the firm's spot among Law360's Government Contracts Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2015

    Banking Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP earned a spot on Law360’s list of Banking Groups of the Year by guiding the world’s biggest financial institutions through a maze of regulatory reforms, from crafting “living wills” for the U.S.’ biggest banks to handling compliance with the Volcker Rule’s proprietary trading ban.

  • January 12, 2015

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Kaye Scholer

    Kaye Scholer LLP’s life sciences practice secured key wins for Pfizer Inc. in high-profile product-liability cases and multidistrict litigation over its antidepressant Zoloft’s alleged risks of birth defects, including what is believed to be the most significant Daubert victory in the life sciences sector last year, earning the team a spot among Law360's Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2015

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Brown Rudnick

    Brown Rudnick LLP obtained landmark rulings that spurred a successful auction of Fisker Automotive Holdings Inc. and enabled the liquidator of an offshore Bernie Madoff feeder fund to fight an unfavorable asset sale in its Chapter 15 case, earning the firm a place among Law360’s Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2015

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Covington & Burling

    Covington & Burling LLP's life sciences group led Warner Chilcott Co LLC to a patent-trial victory that will protect $4 billion in drug sales and connected AbbVie Inc. with Google Inc.'s Calico in a $1.5 billion collaboration to “cure death,” making the firm one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2015

    Employment Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn's labor and employment group continued its winning ways last year with key victories in the Fifth and Ninth circuits that beat back class actions on behalf of clients UBS Financial Services Inc. and Michaels Stores Inc., earning the group a spot on Law360's Practice Group of the Year list.

  • January 09, 2015

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Baker Botts

    The appellate aces at Baker Botts LLP scored a big win for client Halliburton Co. at the high court that reshaped the securities class action landscape and engineered a Fifth Circuit victory in one of the most important environmental cases of 2014, landing the practice among Law360’s Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2015

    Competition Group Of The Year: Boies Schiller & Flexner

    Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP has had a standout year in the antitrust arena, defending American Express Corp. and Apple Inc. in two high-stakes trials and prevailing over the National Collegiate Athletic Association in a closely watched case over its amateurism rules, earning the firm a spot on Law360’s list of Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2015

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's capital markets group kept up with redoubled demand in 2014, steering several complex and significant transactions — including top U.S. initial public offerings like Citizens Financial Group Inc.’s $3.5 billion debut — to land among Law360's Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2015

    Banking Group Of The Year: Arnold & Porter

    Arnold & Porter LLP won a string of cases in 2014 for the Federal Housing Finance Agency, including cases ranging from a dispute over whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are subject to local taxes to a fight over the diversion of the two companies’ profits to the federal government, placing the firm among Law360’s Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2015

    Environmental Practice Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn's environmental practice group spent 2014 racking up huge wins for clients, from obtaining a finding that a $9.5 billion damages award against Chevron Corp. for alleged contamination of an Amazon oil field was gained through fraudulent means to securing the dismissal of key plaintiffs' claims in toxic tort litigation against International Paper Co., earning the firm a place among Law360's Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2015

    Gov't Contracts Group Of The Year: Crowell & Moring

    Crowell & Moring LLP's government contracts group is widely heralded as an industry go-to, and the firm's recent wins for Lockheed Martin Corp. in a closely watched $400 million qui tam suit and BAE Systems PLC in a highly technical bid protest further cemented that dominance, landing the practice among Law360's Government Contracts Groups of the Year.

  • December 19, 2014

    Law360 Names Law Firms Of The Year

    Showcasing strength in numbers and the agility needed to serve up top-notch client service on a number of fronts, two law firms secured a combined 18 Law360 Practice Group of the Year awards in 2014 to earn the distinction of Law360's Firms of the Year.

  • 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.

  • February 05, 2014

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Covington & Burling

    Covington & Burling LLP cemented its reputation in 2013, scoring a marquee win for MF Global Inc.'s bankruptcy estate in its bid for coverage on $141 million in trading losses and representing BP PLC and the National Football League in headline-grabbing insurance disputes, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • February 04, 2014

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Steptoe & Johnson

    Steptoe & Johnson LLP in 2013 extricated two Travelers Cos. Inc. insurers from coverage demands surrounding pollution at manufactured gas plant sites and helped set new standards that could assist other carriers in litigation over decades-old environmental liabilities, vaulting the firm on to the list of Law360's Insurance Practice Groups Of The Year.

  • February 03, 2014

    Employment Group Of The Year: Seyfarth Shaw

    Seyfarth Shaw LLP's labor and employment attorneys deployed their signature "offensive defense" to rack up an impressive string of wins in 2013 that included defeating a closely watched U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity credit-check case, earning the firm its third consecutive spot among Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • February 03, 2014

    Insurance Group of the Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's insurance team convinced a Pennsylvania appeals court to vacate a $95 million judgment against American Nuclear Insurers in a coverage dispute over radiation injury claims, one of several accomplishments that makes it a Law360 Insurance Practice Group of the Year.

  • January 31, 2014

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP insurance attorneys’ impressive list of accomplishments for the past year include trailblazing a new follow-the-fortunes doctrine in New York and resolving a multitude of illegal kickback class actions against U.S. Fidelity and Guaranty Co., making it one of Law360's Insurance Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2014

    Employment Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings

    Paul Hastings LLP's labor and employment team earned a noteworthy Sixth Circuit win that stemmed from sweeping gender discrimination against Cintas Corp. and scored a victory for Kmart Corp. in the first California suitable seating class action to make it to trial, landing it among Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year for the second straight year.

  • January 30, 2014

    Private Equity Group Of The Year: Skadden

    The private equity practice group at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP this year has handled deals around the world involving some of the largest investment firms, such as representing JLL Partners Inc. in the $1.4 billion sale of a private equity-backed prepaid-card company, making it one of Law360's Private Equity Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2014

    Employment Group Of The Year: Ogletree Deakins

    Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC earned its spot on Law360's list of employment groups of the year in 2013 with a pair of major wins against the National Labor Relations Board that set an important precedent in favor of class waivers and helped defeat the agency's controversial posting requirement.

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