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 21, 2025

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Lieff Cabraser

    Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP helped obtain a $600 million settlement from Norfolk Southern over a train derailment and secured an early win in a social media addiction case against Silicon Valley heavyweights, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2025

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: DLA Piper

    DLA Piper convinced an Arkansas jury to clear Monsanto of potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in liability relating to the herbicide Roundup and also garnered some achievements in multidistrict litigation over Ozempic, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2025

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP helped Koninklijke Philips negotiate a $1.1 billion settlement agreement ending sprawling litigation related to its recalled sleep breathing machines, causing company stock to jump and landing the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 18, 2025

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Kline & Specter

    Kline & Specter PC's product liability practice group secured billions of dollars in verdicts in cases against Monsanto over its weedkiller Roundup and has helped to lead mass tort litigation over Elmiron's bladder drugs, earning it a place as one of the 2024 Law360 Product Liability 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 28, 2024

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Seeger Weiss

    Seeger Weiss LLP's work on securing a landmark $6 billion deal to end the massive litigation brought by veterans and service members who alleged that 3M's combat earplugs harmed their hearing made it one of Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 27, 2024

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Lieff Cabraser

    Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP has obtained a $230 million settlement from Walgreens over the opioid crisis in San Francisco and secured a $235 million vaping litigation settlement from tobacco giant Altria, earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2024

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP's product liability group helped McKesson Corp. notch a trial win in the nationwide opioid litigation and secured a dismissal of claims against Hain Celestial Group Inc. over allegations that their baby food contained dangerous amounts of heavy metals, earning the group a spot as one of Law360's Product Liability 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.

  • March 02, 2023

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: O'Melveny

    Successfully fighting public nuisance claims through landmark opioid cases in California and Oklahoma, appealing key sections of a pelvic mesh mass tort and negotiating a $1.8 billion settlement for a huge West Coast gas company landed O'Melveny & Myers LLP a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • March 01, 2023

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP this year helped McKesson Corp. win the only trial against distributors in the sprawling opioid multidistrict litigation and secure a victory in the first multiplaintiff trial over Roundup for Monsanto, earning it a spot among Law360's Product Liability Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 28, 2023

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's win for Endo Pharmaceuticals in a difficult discovery controversy in opioid litigation and for Johnson & Johnson in fighting a contempt order in a talc trial earned the firm a place among Law360's 2022 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 27, 2023

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Greenberg Traurig

    Greenberg Traurig LLP helped convince the Third Circuit to affirm the dismissal of a lawsuit against Teva Pharmaceuticals over claims related to heart medication, securing its fifth appellate win on similar arguments made against the drug and landing it a spot on Law360's 2022 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 24, 2023

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Keller Rohrback

    Keller Rohrback LLP's numerous victories on behalf of consumers allegedly impacted by faulty vehicle transmissions and other products, including a quarter-billion-dollar settlement with Nissan, have earned the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Product Liability 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 17, 2022

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Motley Rice

    Motley Rice LLC helped negotiate the preliminary $26 billion opioid settlement with Johnson & Johnson, the nation's three largest drug distributors and state attorneys general, landing it a spot among Law360's 2021 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 16, 2022

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Keller Rohrback

    Keller Rohrback LLP's work over the past year in litigation over the opioid crisis — which helped lead to a $26 billion settlement with Johnson & Johnson, major drug distributors and state attorneys general — as well as leadership roles in multidistrict litigation over Juul have earned the firm a place among Law360's 2021 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 15, 2022

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Greenberg Traurig

    Greenberg Traurig LLP notched big wins last year for C.R. Bard Inc. in suits over its vein filters and pelvic meshes, as well as for Sandoz Inc. in litigation over the chemotherapy drug Taxotere, earning it a place as one of Law360's 2021 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 14, 2022

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Girard Sharp

    Girard Sharp LLP helped lead the way in convincing a San Francisco jury that a freezer manufacturer was liable for a fertility clinic implosion that lost embryos and eggs for their clients, a first-of-its-kind trial that secured a $15 million verdict and landed the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 11, 2022

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Faegre Drinker

    Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP's wins for major medical device makers such as Zimmer Inc. and Boston Scientific, as well as its support of Johnson & Johnson in a recent talc trial verdict in the company's favor, landed the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Product Liability 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 18, 2020

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell's product liability group shot down $582 million in claims against Volkswagen from consumers who opted out of the carmaker's emission-related class settlement and helped Fiat Chrysler escape wrongful death claims from a 2016 car accident, making the group one of Law360's 2020 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

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