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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 24, 2013

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Securing a groundbreaking early dismissal of an all-natural labeling suit against PepsiCo Inc. was among the recent notable achievements for Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP attorneys that landed the firm among Law360's Class Action Practice Groups of the Year for the third consecutive time.

  • January 23, 2013

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: White & Case

    White & Case LLP has advised sponsors of the world's biggest petrochemical plant, guided lenders in financing Brazilian drill ships and offshore wind, and put together the first post-2008 syndicated loan to cover construction risk, earning it a place among Law360's Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2013

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    Winston & Strawn LLP's white collar team added to its already deep stable of former federal prosecutors in 2012, while shepherding high-profile defendants like Illinois political insider William Cellini and Spectranetics Corp. CEO John Schulte past the heftiest charges against them at trial, earning the team a place among Law360's White Collar Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2013

    Employment Group Of The Year: Seyfarth Shaw

    With an innovative approach that helped it secure a first-of-a-kind dismissal of discrimination claims against Family Dollar Stores Inc. and decertify class in a wage-and-hour suit against Allstate Insurance Co., Seyfarth Shaw LLP had a year worthy of a spot among Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2013

    Privacy Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray

    Ropes & Gray LLP's innovative work on high-stakes data breach cases involving Sony Corp. and Heartland Payment Systems Inc. and several pioneering data security cases in 2012 landed the firm on Law360's list of top Privacy and Consumer Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2013

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    From its work on a number of multibillion-dollar deals to its success in high-stakes litigation and luring over a number of top attorneys, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's versatility has helped to earn it a spot on Law360's Life Sciences Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2013

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Orrick

    When the country’s largest power provider, the Tennessee Valley Authority, sought financing for its cleaner energy goals in an unyielding climate of federal budget constraints, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP worked to devise an unusual lease purchase structure to help secure a $1 billion financing deal, landing it among Law360’s Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2013

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Steptoe & Johnson

    Steptoe & Johnson LLP's white collar practice combines the tight-knit feel of a boutique law shop with the backing and resources a larger firm affords, earning the group an impressive roster of clients like Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s Lloyd Blankfein, along with a place on Law360's list of White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2013

    Privacy & CP Group Of The Year: Perkins Coie

    Perkins Coie LLP's full-service approach to providing companies with coordinated expertise from top litigation, regulatory and counseling attorneys has landed the firm an impressive roster of high-profile clients like Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. and secured it a place on Law360's list of Consumer Protection and Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2013

    Employment Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings

    Paul Hastings LLP's labor and employment lawyers won a blockbuster overtime case at the U.S. Supreme Court for drug company GlaxoSmithKline and helped bankrupt American Airlines Inc. make crucial moves to cut labor costs, two of the achievements that earned them a place among Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2013

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    When GlaxoSmithKline PLC found itself snared in a colossal fraud investigation, Sidley Austin LLP helped the pharmaceutical giant avoid being booted from Medicare and Medicaid, one of many triumphs that earned the firm a place among Law360's Life Sciences Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 18, 2013

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP inked a creative deal to end a civil forfeiture case against online poker company PokerStars and helped a key witness in the Raj Rajaratnam trial bag a noncustodial sentence for his own crimes this past year, work that helped place the firm among Law360's White Collar Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 18, 2013

    Employment Group Of The Year: Morrison & Foerster

    Employment attorneys from Morrison & Foerster LLP notched many notable wins last year, but in finally settling the lingering question of whether California employers are required to ensure that meal breaks are taken, the firm easily earned itself a spot on Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 18, 2013

    Privacy Group of the Year: Morrison & Foerster

    For not only helping defend clients against several major data security class actions but also for its work staying on top of legal and technological trends to help avoid litigation, Morrison Foerster has earned a spot among Law360’s top privacy and Consumer Protection Practice Groups of The Year.

  • January 18, 2013

    Project Finance Group of the Year: Nossaman

    Nossaman LLP represented the Virginia Department of Transportation in arranging financing for the $2.1 billion Midtown Tunnel project in Hampton Roads, the largest transportation project undertaken in nearly 30 years, helping it earn a spot on Law360's Project Finance Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 18, 2013

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Skadden

    A year chock-full of pharmaceutical tie-ups, including the $29.1 billion megamerger between Express Scripts Inc. and Medco Health Solutions Inc., earned Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP a place on Law360's list of Life Sciences Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2013

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Morrison & Foerster

    Whether it was helping EDF Renewables SA put together a mini-wind empire in Texas or signing up Japanese offtakers for the U.S. shale boom, Morrison & Foerster LLP's project finance and development team was at the forefront of the two major trends that shaped the project space in 2012, earning the group a spot on Law360's list of Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2013

    Privacy & CP Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP attorneys left their mark on the emerging privacy landscape by helping Flurry Inc. and others escape claims over their allegedly unlawful collection of user data located on Apple Inc. mobile devices and securing a pair of regulatory settlements that allowed Facebook Inc. and Myspace LLC to preserve their data use practices, earning them a place among Law360's Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2013

    Employment Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    From guiding General Motors LLC and Verizon Communications Inc. in groundbreaking pension derisking transactions to overturning two trial courts' rulings regarding pharmaceutical and steel industry workers' overtime, Jones Day's extensive 2012 employment victories landed them a place among Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2013

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray

    Ropes & Gray LLP’s white collar team in 2012 brought a swift end to the highly anticipated trial of Stryker Biotech LLC over alleged off-label marketing and helped other top medical device makers end lengthy criminal probes without charges, earning the team a spot among Law360’s White Collar Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2013

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Fish & Richardson

    Fish & Richardson PC's attorneys scored a landmark victory for Mayo Collaborative Services at the U.S. Supreme Court and racked up a pile of wins in life sciences patent cases before the Federal Circuit in 2012, landing the firm a spot on Law360's Life Sciences Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2013

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Akin Gump

    Bringing together disparate creditor constituencies and bringing home better-than-expected recoveries in billion-dollar bankruptcies such as Washington Mutual Inc. and Dynegy Holdings LLC brought the restructuring pros at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP a place among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2013

    Employment Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    From steering the Third Circuit toward a new test for determining joint employer relationships to preventing class certification in wage suits against Tenet Healthcare Corp. and Sunrise Senior Living Management Inc., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's labor and employment practice group scored an impressive series of wins in 2012 that earned the group a spot on Law360's list of Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2013

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Covington & Burling

    Covington & Burling LLP’s life sciences group helped AstraZeneca PLC partner with Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. in a $7 billion deal to buy a leading diabetes drug maker, one of several representations that earned the firm a spot among Law360’s Life Sciences Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2013

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    The white collar team at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP enjoyed considerable success in 2012, defusing a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation of Morgan Stanley and clearing banking group Intesa Sanpaolo in a probe of U.S. sanctions violations with no charges brought in either case, landing the team a spot on Law360's White Collar Practice Groups of the Year.

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