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 08, 2022

    Competition Group Of The Year: Hagens Berman

    In a colossal win for college athletes, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP won a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the NCAA cannot restrict players' education-related compensation and benefits, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2022

    Competition Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    The competition group at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped longtime client Apple Inc. score an important win in its battle with Epic Games over App Store restrictions and notched several key rulings on class issues in antitrust cases against other clients, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 04, 2022

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP helped successfully defend Qualcomm once again from antitrust claims targeting the chipmaker's patent practices, this time undoing the certification of a class of an estimated 250 million phone buyers, netting it a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Competition 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 11, 2020

    Competition Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    WilmerHale attorneys worked on investigations in the cannabis and auto industries that attracted attention this year over allegations of political influence, while also helping T-Mobile and Danaher pull off multibillion-dollar deals, landing the practice among Law360's 2020 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • December 10, 2020

    Competition Group of the Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP guided several massive transactions through heavy antitrust winds, including the unprecedented challenges that faced T-Mobile's purchase of Sprint, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • December 09, 2020

    Competition Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP helped lead Qualcomm's charge in the Ninth Circuit to overturn the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's lower court win against the chipmaker in a key antitrust dispute over licensing practices, making it one of Law360's Competition Groups of the Year.

  • December 08, 2020

    Competition Group Of The Year: Dechert

    Dechert helped end the FTC's five-year merger challenge winning streak when it led PeroxyChem to victory earlier this year, allowing the company's $635 million union with fellow chemical producer Freshfields-led Evonik to move forward and landing the firm among Law360's 2020 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • December 07, 2020

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Competition attorneys from Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP scored a pivotal victory for Qualcomm this year defending against a Federal Trade Commission enforcement action, while also filing high-profile suits against Apple and Google on behalf Epic Games and helping companies including Mylan get through major merger reviews, landing the practice among Law360's 2020 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • December 04, 2020

    Competition Group Of The Year: Berger Montague

    Berger Montague played a leading role in some of the year's largest antitrust class action settlements, helping earn its clients hundreds of millions of dollars and earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • November 25, 2020

    The Firms That Dominated In 2020

    The eight law firms topping Law360's Firms of the Year managed to win 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, for guiding landmark deals, scoring victories in high-profile disputes and helping companies navigate uncharted legal seas made rough by the coronavirus pandemic.

  • November 25, 2020

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2020 Practice Groups of the Year awards, which honor the law firms behind the litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry in the past year.

  • February 14, 2020

    Competition Group Of The Year: Robbins Geller

    Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP's competition team locked a bevy of massive settlements this past year, including a $6.3 billion deal with Visa and Mastercard as well as a group of big banks over excessive swipe fees, and a $96 million settlement with financial firms over alleged market manipulation, landing the practice among Law360's 2019 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 13, 2020

    Competition Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

    Attorneys from Morgan Lewis & Brockius LLP scored important appellate wins last year, including in landmark Federal Trade Commission cases against Qualcomm Inc. and a unit of Shire PLC, helping earn the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 12, 2020

    Competition Group Of The Year: Dechert

    Dechert LLP guided CVS through unprecedented levels of court scrutiny applied to the merger clearance deal blessing its tie-up with Aetna, while also navigating intense Federal Trade Commission oversight of other transactions, netting it a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 11, 2020

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath

    The competition team at Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP negotiated one of last year's highest-profile settlements and brought a two-year antitrust fight between Apple and Qualcomm to an end, handily earning the practice group a seat among Law360's 2019 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 10, 2020

    Competition Group Of The Year: Covington & Burling

    Covington & Burling LLP's competition team worked on several high-profile transactions last year, including Disney's transformative deal with 21st Century Fox, while also representing several entities on important conduct matters, landing the practice among Law360's 2019 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2020

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cleary

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP helped clients navigate several massive transactions, and considerable antitrust scrutiny, last year, including T-Mobile's purchase of Sprint and the Walt Disney-Fox tie-up, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2020

    The Firms That Dominated In 2019

    Law360's top seven Firms of the Year cleaned up at the 2019 Practice Group of the Year awards, notching a combined 46 wins after spending the past year helping companies navigate blockbuster deals and secure key high court rulings.

  • January 10, 2020

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2019 Practice Groups of the Year awards, which honor the law firms behind the litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry in the past year.

  • January 28, 2019

    Competition Group Of The Year: White & Case

    White & Case LLP scored crucial antitrust wins last year, including paring down potentially massive cases into far more manageable and cheaper threats, beating back class certification bids and winnowing down a criminal case to a relatively small settlement, making it one of Law360's Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2019

    Competition Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    The competition team at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP helped guide Bayer and Praxair through the global clearance process last year for transformative deals that required complicated fixes, while also earning wins on high-stakes conduct cases for other clients, landing the team a spot among Law360's Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2019

    Competition Group Of The Year: O'Melveny

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP led the charge for AT&T and Time Warner against the U.S. Department of Justice's challenge to the companies' merger and won, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2019

    Competition Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's antitrust team notched an unprecedented win for a Shire PLC unit in a Federal Trade Commission pay-for-delay suit, grounded cable installers' collusion allegations against Comcast and successfully kept Philadelphia taxi drivers' antitrust allegations against Uber parked on appeal, continuing its streak as one of Law360's Competition Groups of the Year.

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