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, 2023

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    From leveraging U.S. Supreme Court rulings to defeating trendy "session replay" litigation and obtaining for social media giant Meta an already influential biometric privacy ruling, Mayer Brown LLP left its mark on the privacy landscape in 2022 with wins that earned the firm's cybersecurity and data privacy practice a spot among Law360's 2022 Cybersecurity and Privacy 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 03, 2022

    Cybersecurity Group Of The Year: Susman Godfrey

    Susman Godfrey LLP helped keep alive a federal lawsuit accusing the owners of PornHub of allowing and encouraging child pornography and won an initial blessing of a $92 million settlement resolving biometric privacy claims against TikTok, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • February 02, 2022

    Cybersecurity Group Of The Year: Shook Hardy

    Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP last year got a burgeoning class action case accusing the Whirlpool Corp. of using software to illegally track users' behaviors on its website tossed, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2022

    Cybersecurity Group Of The Year: Hausfeld

    The cybersecurity and privacy team at Hausfeld LLP won preliminary approval for a $92 million settlement in the first biometric privacy lawsuit in the country against TikTok and was also the first to sue T-Mobile after hackers stole private data belonging to 100 million subscribers, earning it a spot among Law360's 2021 Cybersecurity and Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2022

    Cybersecurity Group Of The Year: DiCello Levitt

    DiCello Levitt Gutzler LLC convinced a California court that consumers' lost personal data has inherent value and helped keep alive litigation stemming from a ransomware attack against cloud computing provider Blackbaud Inc., earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2022

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP helped TikTok fend off the Trump administration's push to ban the app from the U.S. market and aided Microsoft in lifting gag orders barring it from telling corporate customers about the federal government's demands to access their data, earning it a spot among Law360's 2021 Cybersecurity & Privacy 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 10, 2020

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Robbins Geller

    Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP helped win initial approval of a $650 million, all-cash settlement on behalf of Illinois residents bringing biometric privacy claims against Facebook, landing the firm a place among Law360's 2020 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • December 09, 2020

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP narrowed a consolidated data breach class action against Facebook from 16 plaintiffs to one and achieved a preliminary settlement with no damages, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • December 08, 2020

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Edelson

    Edelson PC won initial approval of a $650 million cash settlement in a biometric privacy case against Facebook and retained a $925 million jury verdict against dietary supplement marketer ViSalus in an unauthorized robocall suit, landing it among Law360's 2020 Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • December 07, 2020

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: DiCello Levitt

    DiCello Levitt Gutzler LLC helped consumers impacted by Equifax's massive data breach secure a deal that requires the credit reporting giant to shell out more than $1 billion and scored a ruling that kept alive multidistrict litigation over a cyberattack at hotel chain Marriott, earning it a spot among Law360's 2020 Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • December 04, 2020

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Cooley

    Cooley LLP helped Facebook reach the largest cash settlement ever in a privacy case, resolving litigation that could have led to tens of billions of dollars in damages, while swiftly steering videoconferencing platform Zoom through probes from state and federal regulators, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2020 Cybersecurity & Privacy 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.

  • January 30, 2020

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Stueve Siegel

    Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP helped reach a landmark data breach settlement with Equifax that requires the credit reporting giant to pay consumers up to $425 million, and won $3.25 million for eye doctors in an unusual case involving an alleged data breach at the National Board of Examiners in Optometry, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2019 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2020

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins LLP is steering Facebook through the fallout from a cyberattack that impacted roughly 29 million users and helped Apple shake a proposed class action alleging security patches slowed down the processing speed of its devices, earning it a place among Law360's 2019 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2020

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells' cybersecurity and privacy team in the last year notched a big victory for Uber in multidistrict litigation over a major data breach incident and represented Equifax after one of the largest and highest-profile breaches in U.S. history, earning it a spot among Law360's 2019 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • January 27, 2020

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped Facebook reach a historic $5 billion privacy settlement with the Federal Trade Commission while continuing to represent the social media giant in ongoing multidistrict litigation stemming from its data harvesting scandal, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2019 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2020

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Edelson

    Edelson PC defeated Facebook's bid to block a multibillion-dollar class action over the company's face-scanning practices from going to trial and secured a $925 million verdict in a rare jury trial over robocalls, earning the plaintiffs powerhouse a place among Law360's 2019 Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice 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

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Sheppard Mullin

    Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP's standout cybersecurity and privacy team notched big wins this past year as the firm helped Sonic Drive-In navigate multidistrict litigation over a data breach and negotiated a $4.3 million settlement for the fast food chain, landing it among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2019

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray

    Ropes & Gray's attorneys helped secure a game-changing check on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's data security authority when the Eleventh Circuit said an order directing cancer-screening lab LabMD to overhaul its security program was unenforceable, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.