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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 10, 2014

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    A major victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in June strengthening protections for generic-drug manufacturers from state tort claims capped off an impressive year for Kirkland & Ellis LLP and helped earn the firm a place among Law360's Life Sciences Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 10, 2014

    IP Group Of The Year: Orrick

    Intellectual property attorneys at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP secured a slew of high stakes copyright and patent wins last year, including a groundbreaking victory at the U.S. Supreme Court on the first-sale doctrine, earning the firm a spot on Law360's IP Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 10, 2014

    M&A Group of the Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP’s mergers and acquisitions group tapped its capital markets and technology expertise to seal complex deals for Vodafone Group PLC, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. in 2013, earning it recognition as one of Law360’s M&A Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2014

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Bowman And Brooke

    Bowman and Brooke LLP scored huge victories in bellwether trials in both the unintended acceleration litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. and coordinated pain pump injury litigation against Breg Inc., making the firm one of Law360's Product Liability Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2014

    Privacy Group Of The Year: BakerHostetler

    BakerHostetler's privacy and data protection team used its knack for guiding clients through data breach responses to help Schnucks Markets Inc. and Eisenhower Medical Center escape regulatory probes and secure the dismissal of a class action over the loss of data by Omnicell Inc., earning the group a spot among Law360's Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2014

    Securities Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz

    By securing nearly $4 billion in settlement funds in 2013, including a record $2.4 billion pact with Bank of America Corp., Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP reminded everyone why it’s the cream of the crop in the plaintiffs bar, earning a place among Law360’s Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2014

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn's class action group's win in Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Knowles before the U.S. Supreme Court that restored the Class Action Fairness Act's removal power helped shape class action jurisprudence and is already reverberating in lower court cases, earning the group a spot on Law360's list of Class Action Groups of 2013.

  • January 09, 2014

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Covington & Burling

    Covington & Burling LLP delivered for drugmakers on three continents in 2013, spearheading a momentous investment by U.K.-based AstraZeneca PLC, notching numerous litigation triumphs on U.S. soil and helping streamline product approvals in China, placing it among Law360's Life Sciences Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2014

    Appellate Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    In the past year, five Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP attorneys argued a total of seven cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, obtaining substantial appellate victories in areas including ERISA, biotech patent exhaustion and the development of First Amendment law and earning the firm a spot on Law360's Appellate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2014

    IP Group Of The Year: O'Melveny & Myers

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP won two high-profile cases last year over iconic characters, securing the rights to Superman for DC Comics Inc. and to the "Winnie-the-Pooh" franchise for Disney Enterprises Inc., which earned the firm a spot among Law360's IP Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2014

    M&A Group Of The Year: Morrison & Foerster

    Morrison & Foerster LLP mergers and acquisitions attorneys harnessed technology, media and telecom expertise to seal several recent high-profile deals, including a pair of showstoppers for Japanese telecom giant SoftBank Corp., earning it billing as one of Law360's M&A Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 08, 2014

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    Sidley Austin LLP attorneys' work on challenges to controversial U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules, including greenhouse gas emissions and cross-state air pollution rules currently being weighed by the U.S. Supreme Court, has earned the firm a spot for the fourth straight year among Law360's Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 08, 2014

    Tax Group Of The Year: Skadden Arps

    The creative legal minds at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP helped guide clients through increasingly complex tax transactions in 2013, including several Sprint Nextel Corp. deals worth a combined $50 billion and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc.'s $8.7 billion purchase of Bausch & Lomb, landing the firm among Law360's Tax Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 08, 2014

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP had a knockout 2013, guiding bankrupt American Airlines Inc. parent AMR Corp. through a merger with US Airways Group Inc. and carrying defunct Lehman Brothers Inc. through the fifth year of its bankruptcy, earning a place among Law360's Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 08, 2014

    IP Group Of The Year: McKool Smith

    McKool Smith PC's intellectual property group proved its patent litigation prowess by netting a $368 million jury verdict against Apple Inc. and winning a precedent-setting Federal Circuit decision for Ultramercial LLC, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2013 IP Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 08, 2014

    Energy Group Of The Year: Vinson & Elkins

    The Vinson & Elkins LLP energy team was behind not only some of 2013&rsquo

  • January 08, 2014

    M&A Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins LLP's mergers and acquisitions attorneys channeled industry experience and teamwork to ink some of 2013's largest and most complex deals, including the $35.1 billion merger of Omnicom Group Inc. with Publicis Group, earning the team a spot on Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 07, 2014

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins LLP’s environmental team cemented its place at the forefront of climate change regulation in 2013, helping a coalition of industry players influence new rules for power plant emissions, and won a rare stay of a Clean Air Act rule on behalf of Edison Mission Energy and others, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 07, 2014

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins LLP's restructuring, insolvency and workouts practice guided US Airways Group Inc. through its merger with bankrupt American Airlines Inc. parent AMR Corp., creating the world's largest airline, and deftly took A123 Systems Inc. through a cross-border restructuring fraught with political uncertainty, landing it a spot among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • January 07, 2014

    Energy Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's energy practice stood out this year, helping clients close several multibillion-dollar deals — including Crestwood Midstream Partners LP's $8 billion midstream partnership with Inergy Midstream LP — that earned it a spot among Law360's 2013 Energy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 07, 2014

    Appellate Group of the Year: Latham & Watkins

    The appellate team at Latham & Watkins LLP in 2013 argued four high-profile cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and shut down the governor of Pennsylvania&rsquo

  • January 07, 2014

    M&A Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    The combination of creative minds working at Kirkland & Ellis LLP helped it close a series of complicated deals in 2013, including 3G Capital Management LLC's $28 billion acquisition of H.J. Heinz Co. and Clearwire Corp.'s $3.6 billion sale to Sprint Nextel Corp., landing the firm among Law360's M&A Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 07, 2014

    Tax Group Of The Year: Morrison & Foerster

    Tax attorneys at Morrison & Foerster LLP guided billions of dollars in acquisitions involving Sprint Corp., Toshiba TEC and Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. in the past year and monitored the tax consequences of the Residential Capital LLC bankruptcy case, landing them among Law360’s Tax Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 07, 2014

    IP Group Of The Year: K&L Gates

    The intellectual property team at K&L Gates LLP scored a bevy of high-profile wins over the past year, with none more eye-catching than the $1.16 billion judgment it snagged on behalf of Carnegie Mellon University in a patent infringement suit against Marvell Technology Group Ltd., securing the firm a spot among Law360's IP Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 06, 2014

    Appellate Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP's appellate attorneys last year convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt a stricter standard for plaintiffs to prove Title VII employment retaliation claims, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Appellate Practice Groups of the Year.

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