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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.
  • November 30, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Debevoise

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's intellectual property practice group scored numerous trademark victories for its clients, including Booking.com in a high-profile case at the U.S. Supreme Court, landing it a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • January 17, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Perkins Coie

    The intellectual property team at Perkins Coie LLP notched a victory at the Federal Circuit for Mylan Pharmaceuticals that allowed it to proceed with a generic cancer drug, and secured a $5 million patent win for Riddell Inc., earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's intellectual property group scored major victories on behalf of its technology clients, including a $268 million judgment in a lawsuit over a hearing aid implant patent, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day represented Qualcomm in its multibillion-dollar licensing war with Apple and challenged a series of patents on behalf of Google, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2019 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Goodwin Procter

    Goodwin Procter LLP landed a major win for Teva Pharmaceuticals in a U.S. Supreme Court decision that clarified the scope of the so-called on-sale bar under the America Invents Act, as well as helped Dr. Reddy's Laboratories defend its generic version of an opioid treatment, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Finnegan

    Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP over the past year has defended the Vagisil brand name and the copyright of an iconic guitar used by the founder of Pantera, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2019 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • 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 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 22, 2019

    IP Group Of The Year: Susman Godfrey

    Susman Godfrey LLP delivered a $706.2 million trial verdict for HouseCanary in a trade secrets case over real estate valuation technology, and defended Uber against Waymo in the companies' self-driving car trade secret battle, securing a spot among Law360's IP Groups of the Year.

  • January 18, 2019

    IP Group Of The Year: McKool Smith

    McKool Smith PC's intellectual property attorneys notched key wins at the U.S. International Trade Commission and the federal courts, including a $110 million verdict awarded to Ericsson Inc. and favorable rulings against Apple and Comcast, landing them among Law360's Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2019

    IP Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    The intellectual property team at Jones Day achieved a slew of victories in 2018 but perhaps none more significant than a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board must decide the validity of every challenged patent claim when it agrees to institute America Invents Act review, cementing the firm's spot among Law360's IP Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2019

    IP Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP scored a victory on behalf of Fox News in a closely watched copyright case against a television search engine, and also secured a $93 million patent win for Schlumberger Ltd. unit WesternGeco, landing it a spot as one of Law360's IP Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2019

    IP Group Of The Year: Fish & Richardson

    Fish & Richardson PC successfully overturned two major jury verdicts — including the largest patent infringement award in U.S. history — for its client Gilead Sciences Inc., while also notching victories for companies such as Altair Engineering Inc. and Velcro USA Inc., earning the firm a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2019

    IP Group Of The Year: Desmarais

    Desmarais LLP netted a $400 million settlement for Cisco Systems Inc. against network equipment rival Arista Networks Inc. and secured an $82.5 million verdict for IBM Corp. as the technology giant cruised through its first jury trial as a plaintiff in a patent infringement case, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2019

    The Firms That Dominated In 2018

    Law360's top four Firms of the Year notched a combined 32 Practice Group of the Year awards after successfully securing wins in bet-the-company matters and closing high-profile, big-ticket deals for clients throughout 2018.

  • January 11, 2019

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2018 Practice Group 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 05, 2018

    IP Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP’s intellectual property group litigated on behalf of the world’s biggest tech giants over the last year, including Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car company Waymo in the pending Waymo v. Uber case, securing them a spot among Law360’s Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • February 02, 2018

    IP Group Of The Year: Archer Law

    Archer Law achieved a massive victory this year when the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously affirmed a Federal Circuit decision holding that the trademark of an Asian dance-rock band was protected by the First Amendment’s free speech clause, landing it among Law360’s Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2018

    IP Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day secured a record $2.5 billion patent infringement jury award for Idenix Pharmaceuticals LLC and argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board can't choose which challenged patent claims it may review, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2018

    IP Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP secured a victory in the Supreme Court decision Impression Products v. Lexmark International, a major win for Impression and companies in the secondary market for patented products, landing the firm a spot among Law360's 2017 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2018

    IP Group Of The Year: Finnegan

    Finnegan Henderson Garrett & Dunner LLP obtained a $168 million award for LG in a case accusing numerous companies of selling counterfeit wireless headphones and secured a game-changing ruling from the Federal Circuit that makes it easier to amend patents in America Invents Act reviews, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2018

    IP Group Of The Year: Goodwin Procter

    In two of the biggest intellectual property cases of 2017, Goodwin Procter LLP first convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that Varsity Brands could copyright its cheerleading uniforms, then helped Otto Trucking escape a bitter trade secrets dispute between Waymo and Uber over self-driving car technology, securing its spot among Law360’s Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2018

    IP Group Of The Year: Hughes Hubbard

    Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP scored a win for TC Heartland LLC this year in a major patent case that overturned 30 years of established precedent and marked an integral landmark in patent litigation history, landing the firm a spot among Law360’s 2017 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

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