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Rankings: California Powerhouses

  • September 05, 2025

    California Powerhouse: Morrison Foerster

    Over the last year, Morrison Foerster LLP continued to show why it is one of the top law firms that technology giants and innovators look to, as it represented OpenAI in high-stakes copyright litigation and a clash with Elon Musk, while it also scored courtroom wins for Apple and advised SoftBank on several eye-popping tech deals.

  • September 04, 2025

    California Powerhouse: Keker Van Nest & Peters

    California-based Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP's trial attorneys secured high-profile wins for a variety of big-name clients, including Netflix and Sutter Health, while also representing OpenAI in closely watched litigation over copyright fair use in generative artificial intelligence, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2025 Regional Powerhouses.

  • September 03, 2025

    California Powerhouse: Hueston Hennigan

    Hueston Hennigan once again showed why it's the go-to firm for high-stakes litigation by securing a defense verdict this year for Disney in a copyright case over the blockbuster film "Moana" and a Ninth Circuit win upholding Monster Energy's $311 million false advertising trial judgment, placing it on Law360's 2025 California Powerhouses list.

  • September 02, 2025

    California Powerhouse: Cooley

    Cooley LLP's California-based partners have helped major tech clients like Google, Meta and OpenAI score major privacy and IP litigation wins over the past year, while guiding Harvey AI and other companies in nine-figure offerings and big-ticket transactions, earning the firm a spot on Law360's annual list of Regional Powerhouses.

  • August 29, 2025

    The 2025 Regional Powerhouses

    Law360's annual list of regional powerhouses reflects not only the work of exemplary firms, but also emerging legal trends in each state, from matters involving Colorado's growing life sciences industry, to an uptick in bankruptcies in Delaware, to the continued flurry of intellectual property litigation in California.

  • January 16, 2025

    Calif. Law Firm Settles 2 Suits Alleging Debt Relief Fraud

    A debt relief law firm in California reached settlements Thursday in two separate lawsuits that accused the firm of charging its clients for worthless services, a little more than two weeks after the cases were brought in federal courts.

  • September 24, 2024

    California Powerhouse: Cooley

    With numerous high-profile litigation wins and transactions this past year — including a California Supreme Court victory for whistleblowers, Instacart's $660M IPO and Horizon Therapeutics' $27.8 billion sale — Cooley LLP has reinforced its reputation as a leading law firm in the Golden State and once again landed on Law360's Regional Powerhouses list.

  • September 23, 2024

    California Powerhouse: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's California-based partners have helped clients lock in precedent-setting wins before the U.S. Supreme Court over the past year while guiding big-ticket real estate and life sciences transactions, earning the firm a spot on Law360's annual list of Regional Powerhouses.

  • September 20, 2024

    California Powerhouse: Hueston Hennigan

    Even though commercial litigation boutique Hueston Hennigan LLP is both the youngest and the smallest of the firms making Law360's 2024 California Powerhouses list, it has already developed a reputation as a go-to firm when cases are going to trial.

  • September 19, 2024

    California Powerhouse: Kirkland

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's California team won major corporate trials and ushered multibillion dollar transactions across the finish line over the past year, including advising on World Wrestling Entertainment's merger with Ultimate Fighting Championship, as well as helping Samsung fight off patent infringement claims and Gilead Sciences Inc. beat back claims it stifled competition for HIV medications.

  • September 18, 2024

    California Powerhouse: Morrison Foerster

    Morrison Foerster 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 OpenAI defend against authors' copyright infringement claims and advised Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz in defending its $90 million legal bill to X Corp.

  • September 17, 2024

    California Powerhouse: Robbins Geller

    Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP continues its fierce pursuit of justice for investors who've suffered losses from securities fraud, including securing a $350 million settlement in an investor action against Google parent Alphabet and reaching a $490 million shareholder deal with Apple, putting the firm among Law360's 2024 California Powerhouses.

  • September 16, 2024

    California Powerhouse: Wilson Sonsini

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC over the last year stayed true to its roots of representing innovative companies in a wide range of matters, like scoring Google a win over an Anti-Terrorism Act suit at the U.S. Supreme Court and advising HashiCorp Inc. in its $6.4 billion acquisition by IBM, earning it a place for the third time among Law360's Regional Powerhouses.

  • September 13, 2024

    The 2024 Regional Powerhouses

    The law firms on Law360's list of 2024 Regional Powerhouses reflected the local peculiarities of their states while often representing clients in deals and cases that captured national attention.

  • August 19, 2024

    4 Ex-Girardi Keese Attys Are Federal Targets, Agent Testifies

    At least four former attorneys with the defunct Girardi Keese law firm are under active investigation related to the federal government's California wire fraud case and have received letters informing them they are targets, an IRS criminal investigator disclosed Monday under cross-examination by Tom Girardi's attorney at his criminal trial.

  • 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.