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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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January 10, 2012
Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Dewey & LeBoeuf
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP attorneys guided Los Angeles Dodgers LLC through its July Chapter 11 filing, helped insurer Ambac Financial Group Inc. through its restructuring and were tapped to represent unsecured creditors in the massive MF Global Holdings Ltd. bankruptcy, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of 2011.
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January 10, 2012
Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block
Attorneys at Jenner & Block LLP were involved in some of the biggest cases that promised to revolutionize the media and entertainment industry this past year — including the U.S. Supreme Court case that held violence in video games was protected by the First Amendment — securing the firm a spot on Law360's Media & Entertainment Groups of 2011.
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January 10, 2012
Competition Group Of The Year: Davis Polk
This past year, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP attorneys persuaded the plaintiff-friendly Ninth Circuit to uphold the dismissal of a class action alleging Comcast Corp. and others violated antitrust laws by refusing to sell channels individually, one of many achievements that earned the firm's antitrust group a spot among Law360's Competition Groups of 2011.
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January 10, 2012
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Bowman & Brooke
The roster of companies Bowman and Brooke LLP successfully defended from product liability and catastrophic injury suits in the past year — Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and Yamaha Motor Corp., to name a few — could practically double as a who's who of the automotive industry, a feat that earned the firm a spot on Law360's Product Liability Groups of 2011.
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January 10, 2012
Insurance Group Of The Year: Dickstein Shapiro
When the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus needed to come up with insurance money to pay victims of sexual abuse, or when San Diego Gas & Electric had to tap more than $1 billion in policies to settle wildfire damage claims, they knew to turn to Dickstein Shapiro LLP, whose dominance of the policyholder bar makes it one of Law360's Insurance Groups of 2011.
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January 10, 2012
Real Estate Practice Group Of The Year: Fried Frank
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's resume is writ in the New York City skyline and the team punctuated 2011 by placing the anchor tenant for the new World Trade Center tower while finessing a score of other front-page transactions, making it one of Law360's real estate practices of the year.
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January 09, 2012
Privacy & CP Group Of The Year: Wilson Sonsini
When Google Inc. found itself on the receiving end of two major multidistrict litigations challenging its Street View photography program and Android mobile operating software, it turned to the ground-breaking practice of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC for the deep bench and tech-sector expertise that make the firm one of Law360's Privacy and Consumer Protection Groups of 2011.
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January 09, 2012
Employment Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin
This past year, Sidley Austin LLP attorneys successfully defended a California hospital in a case with nationwide implications for regular rate overtime calculations, one of many achievements that earned the firm's employment group a spot among Law360's Employment Groups of 2011.
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January 09, 2012
M&A Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal
With its full-service approach to deals, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's mergers and acquisitions team attracted serious business in 2011, including representing Sanofi-Aventis SA in its $20.1 billion Genzyme Corp. takeover and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP in a $37.8 billion buy, earning the firm a spot on Law360's list of M&A Groups of 2011.
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January 09, 2012
Securities Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's securities litigation practice group achieved a series of coups in the securities field in 2011, including persuading the Second Circuit to dismiss all claims in shareholder derivative litigation against American International Group Inc., a win that helped land the team a spot among Law360's Securities Groups of the Year.
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January 09, 2012
IP Group Of The Year: WilmerHale
WilmerHale attorneys not only convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that inventors were entitled to first claim patent rights this past year, but also helped i4i LP secure a patent ruling against Microsoft Corp. in the high court just three days later, earning it a place among Law360's IP Groups of 2011.
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January 09, 2012
Environmental Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin
In 2011's landmark climate change victory for power companies, Sidley Austin LLP convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that the Clean Air Act trumped federal common law claims and spared its client American Electric Power Co. Inc. from a nuisance suit over greenhouse gases, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2011.
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January 06, 2012
M&A Group Of The Year: Skadden
Advising Express Scripts Inc. in its proposed $29.1 billion acquisition of rival Medco Health Solutions Inc. is just one example of the high-profile mergers and acquisitions work that has earned Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP a spot on Law360's list of M&A Groups of 2011.
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January 06, 2012
Privacy & CP Group Of The Year: Reed Smith
Reed Smith LLP finessed plaintiffs in multimillion-dollar Web tracking class actions into refining their claims, then flexed its technical expertise to free E-Trade Financial Corp. and two other clients from the suits, showcasing the strength that put the firm on Law360's list of Privacy and Consumer Protections Groups of 2011.
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January 06, 2012
IP Group Of The Year: O'Melveny
Facing an appeal from Psystar Corp. over copyright misuse of the Mac OS X operating system, Apple Inc. turned to O'Melveny & Myers LLP's seasoned intellectual property team, which in September got the Ninth Circuit to uphold an injunction against Psystar in the high stakes case, securing it a place among Law360's IP Groups of 2011.
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January 06, 2012
Employment Group Of The Year: Seyfarth Shaw
Seyfarth Shaw LLP filed two amicus briefs that helped shape the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, and then used the Dukes ruling to successfully fight collective action and class certification in cases against Farmers Insurance Exchange and Costco Wholesale Corp., landing the firm's labor and employment team a spot among Law360's Employment Groups of 2011.
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January 06, 2012
Securities Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray
From scoring a lucrative settlement for a client after a disputed acquisition to defending a company from liability for the fraud of its employee, Ropes & Gray LLP made major waves in securities litigation last year, garnering the department a place in Law360's Securities Groups of 2011.
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January 06, 2012
Environmental Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown
Mayer Brown LLP's environmental group tackled cutting-edge issues in helping Dow Chemical Co. dodge a high court challenge to the dismissal of novel greenhouse gas tort claims and persuading the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take the unusual step of reconsidering the agency's final rule on boiler emission standards, earning it a place among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2011.
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January 05, 2012
Employment Group Of The Year: Orrick
In the face of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC employees claiming compelled patronage, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's employment attorneys successfully fought back with a unique application of federal securities law, just one feat that landed them among Law360's Employment Groups of 2011.
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January 05, 2012
Privacy & CP Group Of The Year: Covington
Microsoft Corp.'s swift $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype Technologies SA over five months in October belied the complexity of the data privacy issues that Covington & Burling LLP helped longtime client Microsoft navigate on both sides of the Atlantic, landing the firm on Law360's list of Privacy and Consumer Protection Groups of 2011.
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January 05, 2012
M&A Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
In a rough year for mergers and acquisitions, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP completed 163 publicized transactions valued at more than $289 billion in 2011, including such industry milestones as the year's biggest leveraged buyout of a U.S. company and Microsoft Corp.'s much-buzzed $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype Global Sarl, earning it a spot as one of Law360's M&A Groups of 2011.
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January 05, 2012
Securities Group of the Year: Skadden
Whether it was cases from the financial firms, companies defending merger-related lawsuits or the fallout from Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's securities litigation group was at the center of most of the major cases of 2011, earning a spot on Law360's list of Securities Groups of 2011.
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January 05, 2012
Environmental Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's environmental group recently scored victories crossing practice areas, brokering cleanup deals to usher Chemtura Corp. out of a high-profile bankruptcy and working on high-stakes transactions, earning it a place among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2011.
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January 05, 2012
IP Group Of The Year: Munger Tolles & Olson
The intellectual property team at Munger Tolles & Olson LLP secured a landmark ruling for Abbott Laboratories that tightened the standards for proving inequitable conduct and reached a major settlement with file-sharing software maker LimeWire LLC on behalf of the record industry, earning the firm a spot on Law360's list of Intellectual Property Groups of 2011.
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January 04, 2012
IP Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP secured a victory for French appliance maker SEB SA and reshaped the patent litigation landscape by persuading the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt a new legal standard for the mental state that must be proven to show induced infringement, earning the law firm a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property Groups of 2011.