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

    Securities Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP helped Robinhood successfully navigate sprawling "meme stock" litigation, steered freight provider Forward Air to a soft landing in a merger suit and secured a pair of precedential appellate wins for insurance startup Root and Mylan, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 24, 2025

    Securities Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz

    Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP's attorneys recently secured over half a billion dollars for investors of government-sponsored mortgages in their suit against the federal government, and millions more for investors of publicly traded companies like Qualcomm and Perrigo, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2025

    Securities Group Of The Year: Labaton Keller

    Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP continued its work battling big-name companies in corporate fraud cases last year, including securing a $200 million settlement for the Boston Retirement System against Uber Technologies Inc. for allegedly misleading investors, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2025

    Securities Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP won a Fifth Circuit ruling last year that repealed a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule that would have given the agency more oversight over hedge funds and private equity funds, earning the firm a spot on the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2025

    Securities Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    Winston & Strawn LLP secured a unanimous victory on behalf of client Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. before the U.S. Supreme Court last year, winning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 18, 2025

    Securities Group Of The Year: Robbins Geller

    Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP guided investors in securing a $490 million settlement from Apple Inc. in California federal court after alleging CEO Tim Cook had misled them, and obtained a $434 million settlement with Under Armour Inc. in Maryland federal court to settle claims the company had artificially inflated stock prices, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 06, 2025

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP notched critical wins as the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an Eighth Amendment challenge to a city's public camping law and gave insurers a voice in mass tort bankruptcies, making it one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate 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.

  • 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

    Securities Group Of The Year: Munger Tolles

    The Munger Tolles & Olson LLP securities group's multiple victories for high-profile clients over the past year, including successfully appealing a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ruling on Grayscale Investment's bitcoin exchange-traded product, has earned it a spot among Law360's 2023 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 29, 2024

    Securities Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins successfully helped Oracle company executive Lawrence J. Ellison and CEO Safra Catz beat a derivative challenge to a $9.4 billion acquisition deal, one of the largest challenges against a corporate deal to go to trial before the Delaware Court of Chancery, earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 28, 2024

    Securities Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    The securities litigation team at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP played a central role in winning a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of Slack Technologies LLC, putting in place new barriers to shareholder suits against companies that go public via direct listings, winning it a spot on Law360's 2023 Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 27, 2024

    Securities Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC's securities team made headlines last year by securing one of the largest securities class action recoveries of all time for Wells Fargo investors and by introducing major corporate governance reforms at several financial institutions after their alleged attempts to obstruct the stock loan market, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2024

    Securities Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz

    Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP recently secured $1 billion for Wells Fargo investors who claimed losses over the bank's risk management practices and reached a $145 million settlement on behalf of investors in Allianz's Structured Alpha Funds, earning the firm a place among Law360's Securities Practice 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 24, 2023

    Securities Group Of The Year: Latham

    In a rare complete defense victory in Delaware's Chancery Court, Latham & Watkins LLP beat a derivative challenge to the $875 million acquisition of Berkeley Point Financial by BGC Partners Inc., whose controlling shareholder is Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick, earning Latham a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2023

    Securities Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC helped to tie up one of the biggest shareholder derivative settlements on record and clinched multimillion-dollar investor deals to hold big corporate boards accountable for rooting out alleged workplace bias and abuse, landing it among Law360's 2022 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2023

    Securities Group Of The Year: Wachtell

    Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz last year successfully fended off Elon Musk's attempt to renege on his promised $44 billion acquisition of Twitter and won a Delaware high court ruling that erased a $690 million judgment for its client, earning the firm a spot on Law360's 2022 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2023

    Securities Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz

    Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP recovered billions of dollars for investors last year, most prominently through a series of settlements with German financial firm Allianz, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • January 18, 2023

    Securities Group Of The Year: Robbins Geller

    Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP secured a record-breaking $809.5 million settlement for class members the day before jury selection was set to commence in a trial between Twitter Inc. and its investors, ending a suit that dated back to 2016 and earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2023

    Securities Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Securities law practitioners at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP secured a precedential appellate victory on behalf of hotel chain Marriott International Inc., and successfully argued for the dismissal of shareholder claims on behalf of Facebook's parent company Meta, earning the group a place among Law360's 2022 Securities 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

    Securities Group Of The Year: Weil

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP won a high-stakes appeal for Brookfield Asset Management at the Delaware high court that reversed a 2006 precedent on shareholder litigation, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Securities Groups of the Year.

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