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 01, 2023

    Trials Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP secured a $26 million civil verdict for people injured by extremist groups at the infamous 2017 "Unite the Right" rally, and utilized an unusual strategy to get a turnaround win for a former hedge fund CEO, solidifying a spot in Law360's 2022 Trial Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2023

    International Trade Group Of The Year: Akin Gump

    The international trade team at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP scored major victories in a rocky regulatory environment in 2022, including wins for U.S. industry groups and Chinese companies navigating tightening export controls, crackdowns in the Xinjiang region and solar cell investigations, earning them a spot among Law360's 2022 International Trade Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2023

    Banking Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP counseled TD Bank on an upcoming $13.4 billion acquisition of First Horizon, and represented the bank in litigation stemming from Allen Stanford's $7 billion Ponzi scheme, as well as securing debt financing for the WarnerMedia/Discovery merger, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2023

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells successfully closed out an initially hostile $23 billion real estate investment trust deal, and led VICI Properties through its $17.2 billion play to become America's largest experiential real estate owner, landing a spot among Law360's 2022 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2023

    Trials Group Of The Year: Covington

    A victory for McKesson in a high-profile, landmark opioid suit and a string of wins for Monsanto in the ongoing and widespread Roundup litigation are two reasons why Covington & Burling LLP's trials group has earned a spot among Law360's 2022 Trials Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2023

    International Trade Group Of The Year: Arnold & Porter

    Arnold & Porter notched a precedential win for Hyundai Steel Co. at the Federal Circuit over the U.S. Department of Commerce's interpretation of legislation governing import duty calculations in distorted markets, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 International Trade Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2023

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP led Merck to a trial victory when a New Jersey judge said the health giant's insurer couldn't block coverage for a cyberattack with a war exclusion, just one win that places the firm among Law360's 2022 Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2023

    Trials Group Of The Year: Hueston Hennigan

    Trial boutique Hueston Hennigan LLP had a big 2022 with two eye-popping wins for Monster Energy against a rival that then declared bankruptcy, and another win for a vineyard in an arbitration, making it one of Law360's 2022 Trial Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2023

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's real estate group guided the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on a $9.5 billion project to build a new airport terminal, and helped Google seal a $2.1 billion deal for a new office campus, landing it a spot among Law360's 2022 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2023

    International Trade Group Of The Year: Morris Manning

    Morris Manning & Martin LLP convinced U.S. Customs and Border Protection to unwind a positive Enforce and Protect Act ruling against an aluminum producer and prevented steep tariffs on French rubber from going into effect, earning it a spot among Law360's 2022 International Trade Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2023

    Banking Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Banking attorneys at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP secured dismissals with prejudice of two investor antitrust actions against Morgan Stanley and defeated a proposed investor class action against PayPal, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2023

    Insurance Group Of The Year: O'Melveny

    Insurance attorneys at O'Melveny & Myers LLP in the past year helped lead the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy to a Chapter 11 plan that would channel tens of thousands of childhood sex abuse claims into a $2.5 billion settlement trust, landing the firm among Law360's 2022 Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • January 27, 2023

    Benefits Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP helped win several precedential decisions in 2022 and was on the front lines helping employers navigate the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling, earning it a spot among Law360's 2022 Benefits Groups of the Year.

  • January 27, 2023

    Hospitality Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings

    Paul Hastings LLP guided Eagle Hospitality Real Estate Investment Trust when the public REIT, formed in Singapore, filed a complicated Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware involving the sale of 14 hotels to various bidders for $515 million, placing the law firm among Law360's 2022 Hospitality Groups of the Year.

  • January 27, 2023

    Cannabis Group Of The Year: Dykema

    Dykema Gossett PLLC represented a coalition of Michigan cannabis cultivators in a successful effort to rewrite a host of state policies and helped steer the sale of a large vertically integrated cannabis operator to a Canadian firm, securing the team a place among Law360's 2022 Cannabis Groups of the Year.

  • January 27, 2023

    Construction Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    With King & Spalding LLP's global practice handling half a trillion dollars in construction contracts, including advising Occidental Petroleum on its plans to create the world's first commercial-scale direct air capture project, and also untangling litigation for similarly complex deals, the firm earned a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Construction Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2023

    Cannabis Group Of The Year: Cozen O'Connor

    Cozen O'Connor aided cannabis company Planet 13 Holdings Inc. in registering as a domestic issuer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and helped technology company Dutchie roll out its online cannabis payment platform, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Cannabis Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2023

    Benefits Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP found success defending corporations' right to deny or award workers severance benefits and helping administer their benefit plans, creating "ripple effects" across corporate America that earned the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Benefits Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2023

    Hospitality Group Of The Year: Greenspoon Marder

    Greenspoon Marder LLP logged a banner year advising food industry and hospitality businesses, helping its clients obtain more than 100 liquor licenses and notching a favorable ruling that, if upheld, would require Miami officials to permit alcohol service at a new restaurant, earning the firm a spot among the 2022 Law360 Hospitality Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2023

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP won at trial for a water engineering client in the first bellwether case for victims of the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, beat back a challenge to field burning by a Florida sugar producer and brought a case against California's voter-approved pork farming rules to the U.S. Supreme Court, earning it a place among Law360's 2022 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2023

    Construction Group Of The Year: Troutman Pepper

    Troutman Pepper is representing the Carlyle Group and a group of private investors for the reconstruction of Terminals 1, 2 and 3 at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, a $7 billion project and one of the largest infrastructure projects in U.S. history, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Construction Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2023

    Hospitality Group Of The Year: Cadwalader

    Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP has played a vital role in helping to reshape an industry hit hard by the pandemic, including through its recent representation of lenders in both a $1.5 billion acquisition financing for CorePoint Lodging and a nearly $1.2 billion acquisition financing of 111 WoodSpring Suites properties, earning it a place among Law360's 2022 Hospitality Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2023

    Cannabis Group Of The Year: Duane Morris

    In a field rife with rapid regulatory changes and legal uncertainty, Duane Morris LLP's experience advising multimillion-dollar acquisition and tax settlement deals has placed it in the forefront of major industry developments, earning it a spot on Law360's 2022 Cannabis Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2023

    Construction Group Of The Year: Tarter Krinsky

    Tarter Krinsky & Drogin worked on several major projects in the past year, including a 300,000-square-foot charter school in New York's Bronx borough, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Construction Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2023

    Benefits Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC finalized several multimillion-dollar settlements in federal benefits lawsuits last year and defeated an Illinois casino's bid to escape a suit from workers alleging mismanagement of their employee stock ownership plan, earning the firm a repeat selection as one of Law360's 2022 Benefits Groups of the Year.

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