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Rankings: California Powerhouses

  • 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.

  • September 06, 2019

    California Powerhouse: Hueston Hennigan

    Hueston Hennigan LLP has helped big-name clients navigate high-stakes litigation in 2019, including tech tycoon Elon Musk's battles with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a long-running legal saga involving media mogul Sumner Redstone and a consumer protection dispute involving the Navajo Nation.

  • September 05, 2019

    California Powerhouse: Lieff Cabraser

    Driven by a strong sense of social responsibility, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP reached policy-changing, big-dollar settlements with Fiat Chrysler over diesel emissions fraud, with Anthem over a massive medical data breach and with the University of Southern California over a gynecologist's sexual abuse of students.

  • September 04, 2019

    California Powerhouse: Gibson Dunn & Crutcher

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP continued to stand out from the pack in both the litigation and corporate practice areas this year, securing a complete victory for Hewlett Packard Enterprise in a long-running infringement case, helping CNN's Jim Acosta restore his White House press credentials and advising on prominent deals.

  • September 03, 2019

    California Powerhouse: Fenwick & West

    Fenwick & West LLP's attorneys outdid themselves this past year in both litigation and transactions, securing a decisive win for Uber in a shareholder suit over driverless-car technology trade secrets and representing Symantec in its $10.7 billion sale of enterprise security assets to Broadcom.

  • August 30, 2019

    The 2019 Regional Powerhouses

    The law firms on Law360's list of 2019 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.

  • August 30, 2019

    Powerhouses Lead Hot Calif. Legal Market Facing Shakeup

    The eclectic group of law firms selected as Law360's 2019 California Powerhouses have steered billions in transactions, landed multimillion-dollar settlements and secured precedential rulings, representing tech and entertainment giants in a legal market that experts say is "deliriously" hot and could be on the verge of a shakeup.

  • September 06, 2018

    California Powerhouse: Best Best & Krieger

    Over the past year, Best Best & Krieger has shepherded billions of dollars' worth of projects, such as the massive rail infrastructure expansion at the Port of Long Beach, through California's notoriously complex environmental review framework and helped municipalities across the Golden State deal with new and thorny issues like Airbnb and legalized marijuana, establishing itself as one of the most diverse mid-size law firms in the country.

  • September 05, 2018

    California Powerhouse: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton

    In the last year, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has continued to help transform the Bay Area's real estate while steering Starbucks through a class action over allegedly underfilled iced drinks and BofI Federal Bank's holding company through a suit alleging false or misleading public statements, solidifying its role as a Golden State transactional and litigation titan.