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.
  • March 11, 2024

    Transportation Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP helped Stellantis shut down a racketeering lawsuit from rival automaker General Motors and defended Volkswagen against lingering claims tied to its 2015 "clean diesel" emissions scandal, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Transportation Groups of the Year.

  • March 11, 2024

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    Winston & Strawn LLP is serving as lead counsel to Hunter Biden in several different legal matters, including a federal gun charge and a congressional inquiry, and won full acquittal for Matthew Grimes, a former assistant to Trump ally Thomas Barrack, on charges that he'd assisted in a foreign influence campaign in the U.S., earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • March 08, 2024

    Trials Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    Last year, WilmerHale's trial team worked on some of the most nationally significant cases in the country, successfully arguing for an injunction against an effective abortion ban in Ohio and litigating several cases with billions of dollars at stake, making it one of Law360's 2023 Trials Practice Groups of the Year.

  • March 08, 2024

    Transportation Group Of The Year: O'Melveny

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP aided a group of businesses, including Vantage Airport Group and JetBlue, in their bid to finance and construct John F. Kennedy International Airport's new Terminal 6, a $4.2 billion project, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Transportation Groups of the Year.

  • March 08, 2024

    White Collar Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    WilmerHale's white-collar attorneys advised mining giant Glencore in resolving bribery and market manipulation charges and steered Alameda Research's former CEO through criminal proceedings over FTX's collapse, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • March 07, 2024

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: White & Case

    White & Case LLP spent 2023 in the trenches of new and emerging issues in bankruptcy, steering the Boy Scouts of America out of Chapter 11 and breaking down the bankruptcy process for hundreds of thousands of former customers and unsecured creditors of former crypto company Celsius Network, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • March 07, 2024

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Shearman

    Shearman & Sterling LLP showcased the firm's global reach and expertise in navigating tricky cross-border challenges while defending Danske Bank in a major money laundering probe, one of several achievements that secured the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • March 07, 2024

    Technology Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's technology team last year led a slew of multibillion-dollar acquisitions, including one involving Cisco, and beat back a DOJ antitrust challenge of UnitedHealth's $13.8 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Technology Groups of the Year.  

  • March 07, 2024

    Trials Group Of The Year: Weil

    Successfully defending Facebook parent company Meta from a Federal Trade Commission challenge to its acquisition of a virtual reality company and Comcast from a multimillion-dollar patent dispute are a few of the noteworthy cases that earned Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP a spot among Law360's 2023 Trials Practice Groups of the Year.

  • March 07, 2024

    Transportation Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown aided financiers like Wells Fargo Bank and J.P. Morgan Securities in a deal to underwrite $1.8 billion in private activity bonds to rebuild and maintain six bridges in Pennsylvania, one of many deals that earned it a spot among Law360's 2023 Transportation Groups of the Year.

  • March 06, 2024

    Trials Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    In a closely watched antitrust case, Kirkland & Ellis LLP helped pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences fight multibillion-dollar claims that it stifled competition for human immunodeficiency virus medications and raised prices by paying generic competitors to stay off the market, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Trials Practice Groups of the Year.

  • March 06, 2024

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Kramer Levin

    Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP won strong outcomes last year for clients including former New York Lieutenant Gov. Brian Benjamin in a prosecution over bribery charges, a Deerfield Management Co. LP analyst accused of insider trading, and a regional bank facing the collapse of a merger agreement, earning the team recognition as one of Law360's 2023 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • March 06, 2024

    Transportation Group Of The Year: Dykema

    Dykema Gossett PLLC's defense of Tesla Motors in two groundbreaking product liability cases drove the firm to a top spot in Law360's 2023 Transportation Groups of the Year.

  • March 06, 2024

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's bankruptcy practice handled the sprawling bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the Chapter 11 proceedings of Kidde-Fenwal, the first bankruptcy resulting from PFAS-related product liability, earning it a spot among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • March 06, 2024

    Technology Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP led Uber to a major victory in a case dealing with driver pay calculation, won a major bench trial in Nevada federal court on behalf of Oracle in a copyright infringement dispute, and advised IBM on three large-scale acquisitions, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2023 Technology Groups of the Year.

  • March 05, 2024

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    The white collar and investigations team at Jones Day scored an acquittal in the retrial of a man who had spent 15 years in prison, notched an appellate victory that rippled across the Varsity Blues college admission cases, and has deftly guided Minneapolis through the aftermath of George Floyd's murder, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • March 05, 2024

    Technology Group Of The Year: Orrick

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP attorneys advised artificial intelligence companies including MosaicML and Casetext on multibillion-dollar sales and venture capital financings while leading Sonos' ongoing patent infringement fight against Google over the last year, cementing their place among Law360's 2023 Technology Practice Groups of the Year.

  • March 05, 2024

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray

    The bankruptcy practice at Ropes & Gray is a versatile unit capable of winning high-profile cases and pioneering solutions to clients' financing needs, securing a unanimous high court decision in April for Mall of America's owner and devising a unique transaction for Trinseo PLC months later that kept the manufacturer afloat, earning it a spot among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • March 05, 2024

    Trials Group Of The Year: Irell

    Irell & Manella helped client VLSI convince a jury to award $949 million against Intel in a tech patent trial and secured a $303 million win for a second tech patent client, earning the trials practice group a spot among Law360's 2023 Trial Practice Groups of the Year.

  • March 04, 2024

    Trials Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP's trials group successfully represented major companies such as TikTok, The Hain Celestial Co., McKesson and Merck last year in courts across the country, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Trials Groups of the Year.

  • March 04, 2024

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Weil

    Real estate attorneys at Weil played key roles in Micron Technology's development of a $100 billion semiconductor factory, Kroger's proposed $24.6 billion merger with fellow supermarket giant Albertsons and Brookfield's $8 billion sale of Westinghouse Electric Co., earning their practice a spot among Law360's 2023 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • March 04, 2024

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP helped longtime client Revlon untangle its knotted bankruptcy, guiding the global beauty behemoth from a liquidity crisis and debilitating interlender dispute to a confirmed Chapter 11 plan in under a year, just one of several high-profile matters that earned the firm a place among Law360's 2023 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • March 04, 2024

    Technology Group Of The Year: Irell

    Irell & Manella LLP won a $303 million judgment for a company that designs circuit boards in a patent lawsuit against Samsung, a ruling a Texas federal judge upheld later in the year, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Technology Groups of the Year.

  • March 04, 2024

    Securities Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel obtained a complete victory for Elon Musk in an investor class action arising from an infamous tweet, as well as for Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the LA Times who previously helmed immunotherapy company NantCell, in a series of court cases and arbitrations with rival cancer-drug companies, earning it a place among Law360's 2023 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • March 01, 2024

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Thanks to its role advising on multiple deals north of the $10 billion mark, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has earned a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

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