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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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December 17, 2020
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Skadden
Notching victories for Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries in suits alleging its baby powder causes cancer or that its pelvic mesh is defective, and beating class certification in a case alleging the label on Pfizer's Robitussin DM Max cough syrup is deceptive are among the wins that earned Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Product Liability Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 16, 2020
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Motley Rice
Motley Rice LLC's work on securing a $1.6 billion deal to end the vast majority of litigation over Bayer AG's Essure birth control device landed it a spot on Law360's 2020 Product Liability Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 15, 2020
Product Liability Group Of The Year: King & Spalding
King & Spalding's product liability group notched victories this year, such as erasing a $454 million defective medical equipment verdict against Kimberly-Clark Corp. at the Ninth Circuit and helping Honda toss $1.7 billion worth of defect claims, landing the group a spot among Law360's 2020 Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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December 14, 2020
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Covington
Securing a precedential win for Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. in litigation over its blood thinner Pradaxa and ending nearly 20 years of lawsuits against Hoffmann-La Roche AG alleging that its acne medication Accutane causes bowel disease have earned Covington & Burling a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Product Liability Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 11, 2020
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Baum Hedlund
Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman PC's work in reaching an $11 billion settlement with Monsanto to end more than 10,000 claims that its weed killer Roundup causes cancer earned it a spot among Law360's 2020 Product Liability Practice Groups of the Year.
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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.
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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.
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February 13, 2020
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Simmons Hanly
A multimillion-dollar jury verdict against Ford Motor Co. over asbestos that caused a mechanic's mesothelioma and several multimillion-dollar settlements in the first bellwether case in sprawling multidistrict litigation over the opioid epidemic have earned Simmons Hanly Conroy LLC a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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February 12, 2020
Product Liability Group Of The Year: O'Melveny
O'Melveny & Myers LLP's work in defending Johnson & Johnson in opioid litigation across the country and the firm's defense of J&J unit Ethicon in the first state attorney general suit to go to trial over its pelvic mesh products won the firm a place as a Law360 2019 Product Liability Group of the Year.
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February 11, 2020
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Motley Rice
Motley Rice LLC is one of three plaintiffs firms spearheading the massive and massively complex opioid litigation, and over the past year the firm has also played a key role in initiating Honda's most recent recall of Takata air bags and secured millions at trial for lead paint victims, earning it a spot among Law360's 2019 Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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February 10, 2020
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Jones Day
Representing Merck & Co. in a unanimous win in the U.S. Supreme Court over its medication Fosamax and reversing a $23.6 billion verdict against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. are among the big wins that earned Jones Day a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2020
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Dechert
Dechert LLP's work representing Purdue Pharma LP in opioid litigation around the country, including in the multidistrict litigation in Ohio federal court and numerous suits brought by state attorneys general, landed it as a Law360 2019 Product Liability Group of the Year.
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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.
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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.
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February 08, 2019
Product Liability Group Of The Year: King & Spalding
Among King & Spalding LLP's achievements last year was when the Seventh Circuit overturned a $3 million verdict against GlaxoSmithKline PLC in a suit over suicide warnings on the generic form of its antidepressant Paxil, landing the firm among Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2019
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Jones Day
Jones Day argued major pharmaceutical and complex asbestos cases before the Supreme Court, fended off scores of suits targeting R.J. Reynolds and laid the groundwork for its defense of Walmart and AbbVie Inc. in the high stakes opioid multidistrict litigation, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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February 05, 2019
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Dechert
Racking up defense wins in some of the year's most complex and far-reaching product liability cases and plunging into the nationwide multidistrict opioid litigation, Dechert LLP has earned a place as one of Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2019
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Covington
Covington & Burling LLP ended 13 years of litigation over Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.'s acne drug Accutane, won bellwether trials for Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals over blood thinner Pradaxa and resolved hundreds of suits over a Bayer-made IUD, earning it a place among Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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February 01, 2019
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Arnold & Porter
In the bellwether case in a multidistrict litigation alleging that a testosterone replacement therapy injured patients, Arnold & Porter's product liability group secured a win for Endo Pharmaceuticals, one of the achievements that landed them among Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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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.
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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.
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February 02, 2018
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Seeger Weiss
Plaintiffs firm Seeger Weiss LLP played an outsized role in the product liability realm this year, securing a massive settlement in the Volkswagen “clean diesel” litigation and a large settlement for farmers in tainted corn seed litigation, putting it on the shortlist for Law360’s Product Liability Group of the Year recognition.
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February 01, 2018
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's product liability and mass torts team scored several wins in 2017 that will help courts hone their focus on scientific causation, and it took on some of the burgeoning lawsuits over the marketing of opioids, landing the firm a spot as one of Law360’s Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 31, 2018
Product Liability Group Of The Year: King & Spalding
King & Spalding LLP notched courtroom wins for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in so-called Engle progeny cases and Johnson & Johnson in the first trial over the alleged connection between the company's talc products and mesothelioma to go to verdict, helping land the firm among Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year for the fifth straight time.
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January 30, 2018
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Covington & Burling
Covington & Burling LLP's continued defense of Roche's Accutane and its leadership in guiding air bag giant Takata through its massive recall litigation helped land the firm's product liability group a spot among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.