Rankings: California Powerhouses

  • August 25, 2023

    California Powerhouse: Wilson Sonsini

    With a large roster of tech, fintech and life sciences clients, it's only natural that California's largest law firm, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC with 539 lawyers in California, is headquartered not in San Francisco or Los Angeles, but in Silicon Valley, the area that has become the economic engine for the Golden State.

  • August 24, 2023

    California Powerhouse: Robbins Geller

    Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP continues to rack up major wins in California litigation, including securing a record-breaking $5.6 billion settlement in an antitrust class action against Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. and billions of dollars in recoveries in opioid litigation, earning the firm a spot on Law360's Regional Powerhouses.

  • August 24, 2023

    California Powerhouse: Cooley

    Cooley LLP dominated the technology, finance and media practice areas this past year, securing a win for Meta in a trademark infringement case over its infinity logo and ushering multibillion-dollar life sciences mergers across the finish line while also successfully defending the Kardashians in a $100 million defamation trial.

  • August 23, 2023

    California Powerhouse: Orrick

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's roots run deep in California, and it continued to cultivate a reputation as an innovative client advocate this past year as it helped Sonos snag a pretrial patent infringement win against Google and helped the NCAA escape a CTE wrongful death suit in a first-of-its-kind verdict.

  • August 22, 2023

    California Powerhouse: Lieff Cabraser

    From securing more than half a billion dollars in settlements in fraud and personal injury vaping litigation against Juul and tobacco giant Altria, to reaching nine-figure deals with Goldman Sachs and Google in gender-pay discrimination cases, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP notched major victories this past year that set it apart as one of the Golden State's top law firms.

  • August 21, 2023

    California Powerhouse: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP remains a stalwart of the California legal landscape more than 130 years after its founding, continuing to rack up wins like fending off a trademark infringement suit against social media giant TikTok and defending its historic victory for Apple against plaintiff Epic Games, earning it a spot on Law360's annual list of Regional Powerhouses.

  • August 18, 2023

    The 2023 Regional Powerhouses

    The law firms on Law360's list of 2023 Regional Powerhouses are handling some of the biggest deals and most high-profile courtroom battles across 11 states, offering clients regional expertise and making a lasting impact on the law at the state and local level.

  • August 18, 2023

    Calif. Powerhouses Thrive Despite Deals Dip, Office Return

    The firms named as Law360's 2023 California Powerhouses scored billion-dollar settlements in large class actions, won victories against drug companies that contributed to the opioid epidemic, and managed significant deals, including Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, even as the state's legal market shifted and attorneys returned to the office.

  • August 09, 2022

    California Powerhouse: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's California team spent the last year cranking out massive technology deals and racking up courtroom wins for big-name clients, including working with Activision Blizzard on its planned $68.7 billion acquisition by Microsoft and helping the NFL win a high-profile case brought by retired players.

  • August 08, 2022

    California Powerhouse: Wilson Sonsini

    With 570 attorneys in California, the most of any law firm in the state, it's only natural that Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC has been involved in some of the biggest technology-related transactions of the past year.

  • August 08, 2022

    California Powerhouse: Orrick

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP continued to dominate in the technology and finance practice areas this past year, securing a U.S. International Trade Commission victory for Sonos Inc. in its wide-ranging patent dispute with Google, while helping on more than 800 venture capital financings and raising $45 billion in public finance projects.

  • August 05, 2022

    California Powerhouse: O'Melveny

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP's roots run deep in California, and its reputation as a relentless client advocate continued to flourish this past year as it guided Google to victory against claims that it infringed a digital picture frame patent and helped South Korea's CJ ENM grab a majority stake in Endeavor Content.

  • August 04, 2022

    California Powerhouse: Hueston Hennigan

    Hueston Hennigan LLP has been unstoppable in high-stakes litigation on both sides of the "v" over the past year, scoring a massive victory for Monster Energy for $175 million in a trademark infringement case, and securing a landmark defense win for Endo Pharmaceuticals in opioid litigation, with billions at stake.

  • August 03, 2022

    California Powerhouse: Greenberg Traurig

    It wasn't just a string of wins in its corporate, transactional and litigation practices that made for an impressive year for Greenberg Traurig LLP in California. It also won arguably the most high-profile legal dispute of 2021 when its client Britney Spears was freed from a 13-year conservatorship.

  • August 02, 2022

    California Powerhouse: Covington

    From advising Amazon on a deal with global auto giant Stellantis to develop connected "smart" vehicles, to securing significant courtroom wins for high-profile clients that include Facebook, Amgen and the NFL, Covington & Burling LLP's California lawyers had a banner year that cemented the firm's place as a Golden State stalwart.

  • August 01, 2022

    Calif. Powerhouses Lead Hot Legal Market Facing Slowdown

    Law360's 2022 California Powerhouses have steered multibillion-dollar deals, defended technology and pharmaceutical clients against high-stakes litigation, and secured nine-figure trial wins amid a recently booming Golden State legal market that has abruptly slowed in the face of recession fears, according to experts.

  • July 31, 2022

    The 2022 Regional Powerhouses

    The law firms on Law360's list of 2022 Regional Powerhouses are handling some of the biggest deals and most high-profile courtroom battles across nine states, offering clients regional expertise and making a lasting impact on the law at the state and local level.

  • August 06, 2021

    California Powerhouse: Nossaman

    Not only was Los Angeles-based Nossaman LLP extremely active in California's legal industry last year, the firm also shaped the laws and infrastructure of the state, scoring a victory for industry groups in an appellate ruling that said bees can't be protected as fish under California law, reversing Santa Barbara's short-term coastal rental ban, and successfully defending California pension reform legislation.

  • August 05, 2021

    California Powerhouse: Munger Tolles

    Whether guiding companies through some of the biggest disasters and tragedies to hit the globe, or stringing up a series of appellate victories, Los Angeles-based Munger Tolles & Olson LLP proved again over the last year that despite its small size, it packs a heavyweight punch.

  • August 04, 2021

    California Powerhouse: Morrison & Foerster

    Morrison & Foerster LLP's attorneys outdid themselves this past year in both litigation and transactions, securing a decisive win for coffee roasters in an industry-wide lawsuit alleging coffee contains a cancer-causing chemical and representing Salesforce in its $27.7 billion acquisition of workplace messaging company Slack.

  • August 03, 2021

    California Powerhouse: Kirkland & Ellis

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's West Coast team has been firing on all cylinders during the past year, winning two of the largest trade secret verdicts in U.S. history, working on more than $20 billion worth of transactions for Vista Equity Partners, and assisting the pandemic's largest restructurings, including Neiman Marcus, Forever 21 and Frontier Communications.

  • August 02, 2021

    California Powerhouse: Baum Hedlund

    Driven by a long-standing sense of responsibility to represent the little guy or gal against powerful corporate interests as a means to enact greater change, Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman PC has racked up a series of major victories on multiple fronts against Bayer AG over Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller. Correction: A previous version of the headline with this article misspelled the firm's name. The error has been corrected.

  • July 30, 2021

    California Powerhouses Lead Hot Legal Market On The Climb

    The diverse group of law firms selected as Law360's 2021 California Powerhouses have steered billions in mergers and acquisitions, represented tech and entertainment giants and shaken up the agricultural industry in a legal market that one expert said was "hot and on fire."

  • July 30, 2021

    The 2021 Regional Powerhouses

    The law firms on Law360's list of 2021 Regional Powerhouses are handling some of the biggest deals and most high-profile courtroom battles across eight states, offering clients regional expertise and making a lasting impact on the law at the state and local level.

  • September 09, 2019

    California Powerhouse: Munger Tolles & Olson

    Munger Tolles & Olson LLP spent another year at center stage in some of the Golden State's biggest media and entertainment battles, notching multimillion-dollar wins for movie studios locked in copyright disputes with distributors while securing victories in high-exposure cases in courtrooms on both coasts.

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