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 31, 2011

    International Trade Group Of The Year: Fish & Richardson

    Fish & Richardson PC handled several U.S. International Trade Commission patent suits last year, including settling an important case for patent holding company Paice LLC against Toyota Motor Corp., earning the firm a spot among Law360's International Trade Groups of 2010.

  • January 31, 2011

    Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Crowell

    Crowell & Moring LLP last year helped Lockheed Martin Corp. fend off a government demand for $14.7 million in alleged increased costs and saw the fruits of a bid protest by Health Net Federal Services over a $16 billion contract for a military health care program, earning the firm a place among Law360's Government Contracts Groups of 2010.

  • January 28, 2011

    Law360's Energy Groups Of The Year

    In a year that saw significant changes for the energy industry on the regulatory, commercial and technological levels, the energy teams at several firms stood out for their central roles in some of 2010's most prominent energy deals and legal battles, earning them places among Law360's Energy Groups of 2010.

  • January 28, 2011

    Law360's International Trade Groups Of The Year

    With companies, industries and countries ever more ready to tap trade law venues for their quarrels, the importance of good trade lawyering continued to grow in 2010, and several firms set themselves apart with big wins for their clients, earning them a spot among Law360's International Trade Groups of 2010.

  • January 28, 2011

    Law360's Government Contracts Groups Of The Year

    Amid a spike in bid protests and an increasingly cutthroat competitive landscape, firms that were able to help government contractors flourish in treacherous conditions were worthy of recognition as Law360's Government Contracts Groups of 2010.

  • January 27, 2011

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Sidley

    Sidley Austin LLP convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to hear game-changing global warming litigation and secured a win for Duke Energy Corp. that could impact the enforcement of the Clean Air Act, earning it a place among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2010.

  • January 27, 2011

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's impressive track record representing American International Group Inc. and its entities in a string of victories, including dodging coverage of investors' purported losses in Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme, has landed the firm among Law360's Insurance Groups of 2010.

  • January 27, 2011

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Proskauer Rose

    With a bevy of high-stakes victories, including a clean sweep at the U.S. Supreme Court that recalibrated hundreds of years of copyright law and a Third Circuit win in an antitrust fight over control of the men's professional tennis tour, Proskauer Rose LLP's is one of Law360's Appellate Groups of 2010.

  • January 27, 2011

    Class Action Group Of The Year: White & Case

    White & Case LLP attorneys won a major antitrust class action victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010, holding that the Federal Arbitration Act does not permit courts to impose arbitration when a contract is silent on the issue, along with numerous state and district court victories, earning the firm a place among Law360's Class Action Groups of 2010.

  • January 26, 2011

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Pillsbury Winthrop

    Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP secured victories for clients on a wide range of coverage issues in the past year, including a landmark victory that struck down a "pollution exclusion" that has been standard in nuclear liability policies since 1990, placing the firm among Law360's Insurance Groups of 2010.

  • January 26, 2011

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Skadden

    As investors pointed fingers in the wake of the credit crisis, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP convinced the courts that the actions of Societe Generale Group, Radian Group Inc. and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce weren't to blame, one of several reasons the firm is one of Law360's Class Action Groups of 2010.

  • January 26, 2011

    Appellate Group Of The Year: O'Melveny

    The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling narrowing the scope of the honest services law in the case of former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling is among the headline-making victories that earned O'Melveny & Myers LLP a spot among Law360's Appellate Groups of 2010.

  • January 26, 2011

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's environmental litigators won a sweeping appellate victory for Dow Chemical Co. in the Rocky Flats radioactive waste case last year, while its transactional team smoothed the path out of bankruptcy for two chemical companies, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2010.

  • January 25, 2011

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Creative litigation tactics helped the Kirkland & Ellis LLP insurance team land a precedent-setting win for The Dow Chemical Co. in a $145 million coverage dispute last year, one of several pivotal victories for policyholders that earned the firm a place among Law360's Insurance Groups of 2010.

  • January 25, 2011

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day's appellate team last year helped a headwear manufacturer win a U.S. Supreme Court antitrust fight against the National Football League and had the setup of a Sarbanes-Oxley Act government entity declared unconstitutional, helping the firm win a spot among Law360's Appellate Groups of 2010.

  • January 25, 2011

    Environmental Group Of The Year: King & Spalding LLP

    With courtroom victories in the closely watched tri-state water wars cases and the defeat of landmark climate change litigation against several major oil and gas companies, King & Spalding LLP has earned a spot among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2010.

  • January 25, 2011

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    In 2010, Sidley Austin LLP earned a groundbreaking win for American Honda Motor Co. Inc. when it convinced a court to decertify a class action over allegedly defective motorcycles, one of several noteworthy successes that landed the firm among Law360's Class Action Groups of 2010.

  • January 24, 2011

    Class Action Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP's work on behalf of pharmaceutical, financial, retail and other companies, including a rare U.S. Supreme Court stay of a judgment ordering a group of tobacco giants to pay $270 million to fund a 10-year smoking cessation program, has earned the firm a place among Law360's Class Action Groups of 2010.

  • January 24, 2011

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Dickstein Shapiro

    Dickstein Shapiro LLP's insurance team garnered victories and hammered out deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars for clients including Tyson Foods Inc., San Diego Gas & Electric Co. and Sempra Energy last year, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Insurance Groups of 2010.

  • January 24, 2011

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day won court victories in tough Clean Air Act and global warming fights, including major rulings for Midwest Generation LLC and Xcel Energy Inc., earning it a reputation as a top environmental litigation firm and a place among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2010.

  • January 24, 2011

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Greenberg Traurig

    Greenberg Traurig LLP appellate lawyers helped secure a U.S. Supreme Court decision that forced the National Labor Relations Board to reconstitute board staffing levels and, working pro bono, won a ruling that wiped out Florida's ban on gay adoption, making the 56-attorney group one of Law360's Appellate Groups of 2010.

  • January 21, 2011

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Hunton & Williams

    Hunton & Williams LLP saved the Tennessee Valley Authority from spending more than $1 billion to install emissions controls at four coal-fired power plants and helped the American Farm Bureau Federation and others invalidate a policy directive that would have subjected millions of acres of farmland to regulation under the Clean Water Act, earning it a spot among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2010.

  • January 21, 2011

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP's insurance group has spent the past year securing favorable verdicts and more than 100 settlements in litigation, arbitration and negotiations for corporate policyholders such as Sprint Nextel Corp., Chiquita Brands International Inc. and NCR Corp., earning the firm a place among Law360's Insurance Groups of 2010.

  • January 21, 2011

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    With big wins that included convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal of the certification of a class of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. employees, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP earned a spot among Law360's Class Action Groups of 2010.

  • January 21, 2011

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Where some firms' appellate groups swoop in for appeals only, the team at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP is there for clients from the beginning, defending same-sex couples' rights to marry, overturning a fraud conviction for a former media magnate and affixing itself as one of Law360's Appellate Groups of the Year.

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