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 25, 2025

    Competition Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP got Apple out of a $200 billion lawsuit that accused the tech behemoth of using an illegal monopoly to boot COVID-19 tracking and bitcoin applications from its App Store, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 24, 2025

    Competition Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    The competition group at WilmerHale helped Tesla score a key ruling last year in a case challenging efforts to block its direct-sales model in Louisiana and also helped Novelis Inc. reach a favorable settlement in a long-standing dispute with a rival aluminum supplier, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2025

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    The competition team at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC helped secure settlements worth hundreds of millions of dollars last year for groups of home sellers, mixed martial arts fighters, poultry plant workers and others, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2025

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP scored a trailblazing antitrust verdict for Epic Games when a California federal jury decided Google's Play Store illegally dominated the Android app market, making Cravath one of the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2025

    Competition Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    Winston & Strawn LLP represented former student-athletes who changed the shape of college sports with a $2.78 billion antitrust settlement over the NCAA's name, image and likeness compensation rules, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 18, 2025

    Competition Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP helped pull off a stunning interception-touchdown on behalf of the NFL, convincing a California federal judge to reverse a $4.7 billion jury verdict and carving out a spot for the firm as one of the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • January 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • February 06, 2024

    Competition Group Of The Year: Wilkinson Stekloff

    Wilkinson Stekloff LLP took on the Federal Trade Commission in the second-largest merger trial in American history and won, defending Microsoft Corp. in the agency's challenge to its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc., earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 05, 2024

    Competition Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal & Manges

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP helped tech behemoths like Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. knock out antitrust challenges left and right last year, tangling with competition enforcers around the world and coming out on top, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2024 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 02, 2024

    Competition Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells secured a midtrial deal to end a U.S. Department of Justice challenge to Assa Abloy's $4.3 billion pickup of Spectrum Brands' hardware and home improvement business, making it one of Law360's 2023 Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2024

    Competition Group Of The Year: Hagens Berman

    Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP was able to score numerous wins in the past year, settling litigation accusing brokerages of anticompetitive conduct as well as claims that Perdue Farms conspired to keep wages low, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2024

    Competition Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    The competition group at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP scored key rulings in cases last year for clients including Merck and Chevron, while also helping guide VMWare's $61 billion sale to Broadcom, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2024

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cleary

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP saw one hotly contested merger through to closing, forced the Justice Department to settle another case and helped guide one of the largest-ever tech deals across the regulatory finish line, earning its place as one of Law360's 2023 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2024

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 55 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2023 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • January 19, 2024

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2023, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • February 10, 2023

    Competition Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells helped the nation's biggest insurer go head-to-head with the U.S. Department of Justice last year and win, clearing the way for UnitedHealth's $13.8 billion vertical merger with health care tech company Change Healthcare and earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2023

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's antitrust practice group scored major trial wins for clients in a pair of merger challenges, while also securing a crucial ruling for Blue Cross Blue Shield in antitrust litigation, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 08, 2023

    Competition Group Of The Year: Joseph Saveri Law Firm

    Antitrust attorneys at the Joseph Saveri Law Firm secured a $600 million settlement in multidistrict litigation involving capacitor antitrust claims, significantly exceeding the $427 million done in damages, and cut a deal with Booz Allen Hamilton to resolve claims over the company's alleged "no-poach" scheme, earning the firm one of Law360's 2022 Competition Groups of the Year awards.

  • February 07, 2023

    Competition Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP made history in the first defeat of a Federal Trade Commission in-house merger challenge, defending biotech firm Grail after its $8 billion acquisition by Illumina, landing the firm among Law360's 2022 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 06, 2023

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC worked on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of settlements for drug buyers, chicken consumers and poultry plant workers in the past year, marking the firm as one of Law360's 2022 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2023

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2022, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • February 11, 2022

    Competition Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    The antitrust and competition practice at Winston & Strawn LLP secured a landmark win for college athletes over the NCAA at the U.S. Supreme Court while also scoring important rulings for several clients on the defense side of antitrust cases, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2021 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 10, 2022

    Competition Group Of The Year: Shearman & Sterling

    Litigators at Shearman & Sterling LLP defeated the Federal Trade Commission at the Second Circuit last year, and its deal makers continue to advise ViacomCBS in its ongoing efforts to offload publisher Simon & Schuster, helping earn the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2022

    Competition Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP helped defeat "gray area" class certification in a major pharmaceutical case, negotiated clearance on a closely scrutinized transaction and scored major defeats of financial services lawsuits, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Competition Groups of the Year.

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