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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 16, 2024

    Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

    Attorneys at Williams & Connolly LLP had a landmark year with two precedent-setting victories in the U.S. Supreme Court that will affect copyright and trademark litigation for years to come, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • February 15, 2024

    Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Irell

    Irell & Manella LLP helped VLSI win a nearly $949 million verdict against Intel Corp. for infringing a patent for microchip technology, and represented Netlist in its win where a jury said Samsung owes $303 million for willfully infringing five flash memory patents, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • February 14, 2024

    Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP scored a directed verdict of noninfringement for Dell during a $435 million patent trial in front of U.S. District Judge Alan Albright and shielded SharkNinja from any business interruption during proceedings before the U.S. International Trade Commission, earning the firm a spot in Law360's 2023 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • February 13, 2024

    Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Baker Botts

    Baker Botts LLP lawyers got PepsiCo Inc. out of a trademark dispute with a small nitro cold brew startup and pulled a $278.9 million jury verdict against a Chinese drone maker out of the Western District of Texas, earning their law firm a place as one of Law360's 2023 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • February 05, 2024

    Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Arnold & Porter

    Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP brought in a win for Sanofi and Regeneron at the U.S. Supreme Court while also securing a $158 million infringement verdict for Boston Scientific, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2023 Intellectual Property 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.

  • January 23, 2023

    IP Group Of The Year: Debevoise

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's intellectual property team last year smacked down a preliminary injunction preventing Grubhub from using its new logo — convincing a district judge to reject a magistrate judge's recommendation — and won a preliminary injunction against Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's fintech company for client H&R Block, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2023

    IP Group Of The Year: Patterson Belknap

    Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP won more than $2 billion for a software company that had its trade secrets stolen, prevented a generic version of Janssen's schizophrenia drug Invega Sustenna and cracked down on counterfeit surgical devices, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2022 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2023

    IP Group Of The Year: Desmarais

    Desmarais LLP secured a $272 million patent infringement verdict against LabCorp and helped Cisco beat a $371 million infringement case, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2022 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 18, 2023

    IP Group Of The Year: Erise

    Erise IP's intellectual property group secured several consecutive victories in the Eastern District of Texas this past year, successfully defending major companies like Sony and NetScout Systems against millions in potential damages and earning the group a spot among Law360's 2022 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2023

    IP Group Of The Year: Finnegan

    Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP defended BMW against patent infringement claims before the U.S. International Trade Commission, and also took Amazon to task over counterfeits sold on its platform, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Intellectual Property 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.

  • January 25, 2022

    IP Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP helped LG Energy Solution reach a $1.8 billion settlement in a trade secrets dispute against SK Innovation and represented indoor cycling behemoth Peloton in its ongoing fight with Mad Dogg Athletics, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2022

    IP Group Of The Year: Kramer Levin

    Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP scored a massive $1.9 billion judgment against Cisco in the country's first patent trial held on Zoom, earning it a place among Law360's 2021 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2022

    IP Group Of The Year: Irell

    The intellectual property team at Irell & Manella LLP notched the second-largest patent jury damages award ever for VLSI Technology LLC in 2021 and also secured one of the largest verdicts involving standard-essential patents, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2022

    IP Group Of The Year: Fish & Richardson

    Fish & Richardson PC helped Gilead unit Kite Pharma escape a $1.2 billion judgment and got a $235 million induced infringement verdict against Teva Pharmaceuticals reinstated, earning it a place among Law360's 2021 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2022

    IP Group Of The Year: DLA Piper

    DLA Piper's intellectual property practice group handled a long-running copyright battle over a comic book mashup of Dr. Seuss and "Star Trek," along with other high-profile cases, landing the team a spot among Law360's 2021 IP Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2022

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its 2021 Practice Groups of the Year awards, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • January 14, 2022

    The Firms That Dominated In 2021

    Nine law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 52 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, having steered complex deals and won high-profile victories including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • December 07, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP won a $1.1 billion verdict for the California Institute of Technology against Apple and Broadcom in one of the largest patent verdicts in history, earning it a spot among Law360's 2020 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • December 04, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP spearheaded 3M's use of trademark law to target price gouging of its masks during the COVID-19 pandemic and represented Spotify in a high-profile fight over streaming royalty rates, earning it a place among Law360's 2020 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • December 03, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's intellectual property practice group secured a trademark win for Lucky Brand in the U.S. Supreme Court and a major victory for Motorola in a trade secrets case against competitor Hytera, earning them a spot as one of Law360's 2020 IP Groups of the Year.

  • December 02, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Irell

    Irell & Manella LLP was able to help PanOptis and related companies gain a $506 million jury win in a patent infringement case — the country's first in-person jury trial over patents since the COVID-19 pandemic led to nationwide court closures — earning the firm a place among Law360's 2020 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • December 01, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Fish & Richardson

    Fish & Richardson PC helped Gilead dodge a historic $2.54 billion patent infringement verdict and secured a $175 million settlement to put longstanding litigation over power supply controller chips to bed, earning it a place as one of Law360's 2020 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

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