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.
  • February 20, 2025

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP scored a trailblazing antitrust verdict for Epic Games when a California federal jury decided Google's Play Store illegally dominated the Android app market, making Cravath one of the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2025

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

    Williams & Connolly LLP was successful in several significant First Amendment cases, including one upholding a reporter's right to express opinions, and two others recognizing the importance of summary judgment against the chilling effect of a defamation lawsuit, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2025

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP attorneys played a key role in a massive $28 billion merger agreement between Paramount and Skydance that would create a new media conglomerate, and it counseled Disney in a suit from a Mexican soccer club claiming it was owed millions in streaming rights following Disney's purchase of 21st Century Fox, earning the law firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2025

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP aided Meta in beating back claims accusing the social media behemoth of designing its platforms to be addictive and also helped various professional sporting organizations ink nearly $80 billion in licensing deals last year, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2025

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Davis Wright

    Davis Wright Tremaine LLP lawyers prevailed in a battle over a nonprofit's online "Open Library," defeated disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos in court, and successfully defended Netflix in defamation litigation, earning the practice a place among the 2024 Law360 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • January 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • February 23, 2024

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

    Williams & Connolly LLP pulled off a hat trick at the U.S. Supreme Court in May 2023 when it secured three victories on issues of tech company liability and photography ownership on the same day, earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Media and Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 22, 2024

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Susman Godfrey

    Susman Godfrey LLP secured hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of Dominion Voting Systems and billionaire investor Louis Bacon in separate defamation actions against Fox News and fashion magnate Peter Nygård, cementing the firm's place among Law360's 2023 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2024

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Davis Wright

    Davis Wright Tremaine LLP notched a win for the publishing industry when a New York federal judge in March ruled it was illegal for the Internet Archive to scan and lend out books without payment or permission, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Media and Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2024

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP negotiated deals that allowed NBCUniversal to expand its streaming platform to sub-Saharan Africa and Taboola to power native advertising on Yahoo-owned websites, plus defeated a $177 million lawsuit against longtime client Comcast, landing the firm a spot among Law360's Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2024

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 55 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2023 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • January 19, 2024

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2023, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • March 02, 2023

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's media and entertainment team helped a video game company buy the rights to J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, negotiated the transfer of top hip-hop artists' music contracts and advised an independent film and television studio in a record-setting deal with a video game behemoth, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Media and Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • March 01, 2023

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP has represented several high-profile entertainment clients, including Starz Entertainment in a dispute against an MGM unit over copyright damages before the Ninth Circuit, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Media and Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 28, 2023

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Greenberg Traurig

    In the face of intense media coverage, along with a vocal fan base, Greenberg Traurig LLP managed to free Britney Spears from her 13-year conservatorship, earning it a place among Law360's 2022 Media and Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 27, 2023

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Covington

    In just the past year, Covington & Burling LLP handled Discovery's $43 billion acquisition of WarnerMedia and also advised Major League Soccer on its 10-year media rights deal with the Apple TV streaming service, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Media and Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 24, 2023

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Davis Wright

    Davis Wright Tremaine LLP quashed a $95 million slander suit targeting comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for mocking Roy Moore as a pedophile, helping affirm the satirist's First Amendment rights and earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2023

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2022, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • February 10, 2022

    Media Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

    Williams & Connolly LLP scored an appellate win for a photographer's copyright claims against the Andy Warhol Foundation, obtained dismissals for The Washington Post and CNN in three defamation actions and won a major victory on behalf of four major broadcasters, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2022

    Media Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP represented AT&T in a $43 billion reverse Morris trust merger between AT&T-owned WarnerMedia and Discovery and served as counsel to Major League Baseball in a lawsuit over its moving the All-Star Game from Georgia to Colorado, helping the firm earn a place among Law360's 2021 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 08, 2022

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP represented shareholders involved with Discovery Inc.'s multibillion-dollar merger with Time Warner and counseled MGM in its $8.45 billion sale to Amazon, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2022

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block

    Jenner & Block LLP won a trademark suit over the MTV reality show "Floribama Shore," successfully defended Chance the Rapper in a contract dispute and blocked online retailers from selling devices that could allegedly hack Nintendo Switch gaming consoles, earning it a spot among Law360's 2021 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 04, 2022

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP secured Rachel Maddow's win over defamation claims from far-right media outlet One America News and helped Bob Dylan defeat claims that a co-writer on his 1976 album "Desire" was owed more than $7 million from the music icon's 2020 sale of his song catalog, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2022

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its 2021 Practice Groups of the Year awards, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

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