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.
  • 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 25, 2019

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Lieff Cabraser

    Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP scored big for consumers battling moneyed corporations this year, including securing a $250 million settlement with State Farm in a case alleging it paid to influence an Illinois Supreme Court justice, landing the firm among Law360's Class Action Group of the Year.

  • January 24, 2019

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Labaton Sucharow

    Labaton Sucharow LLP convinced a judge to offer a second chance at class certification in a closely watched suit against Goldman Sachs over financial-crisis-era securities, and brought home a $96 million settlement in benchmark-rate litigation, making it one of Law360's Class Action Groups of the Year for 2018.

  • January 23, 2019

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Class action experts at Kirkland & Ellis LLP were at the table last year in the nationwide opioid dispute, among the largest mass litigation in U.S. history, while scoring key wins for transgender military members and Xerox Corp., putting them among Law360's Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2019

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's 215-attorney class action team secured its place as a leader in "gig economy" lawsuits, successfully arguing on behalf of Uber and others for the decertification of large classes of independent contractors, among other high-profile victories that earned it a place among Law360's 2018 Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • January 18, 2019

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz

    By securing victories for clients through creative approaches that maximized high-dollar awards, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP earned a spot among Law360's 2018 Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • 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.

  • 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 22, 2018

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Labaton Sucharow

    Labaton Sucharow LLP helped clients recoup over $300 million from major banks in antitrust litigation over foreign exchange rates and $47 million in a securities suit over a multilevel marketing company’s behavior in China, placing it among Law360’s Class Action Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2018

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells in 2017 handled a variety of class actions and multidistrict litigation for big-name clients including Mylan NV and Anthem Insurance Co., securing victories such as a precedential decision for Hormel Food Corp. in a false labeling class action to earn it a spot among Law360’s Class Action Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 18, 2018

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Capitalizing on recent landmark victories at the U.S. Supreme Court, Mayer Brown's class action practice proved itself a leader in the arena once again in 2017, fending off class actions for some of the most recognizable brands in the world and advancing case law to prevent frivolous class actions under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, earning it yet another spot as one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2018

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Seeger Weiss

    Seeger Weiss LLP proved itself to be a David unafraid of Goliath-style litigation last year, with firm attorneys’ leading role in the settlement of the Volkswagen clean diesel litigation earning it a place among Law360’s Class Action Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2018

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Susman Godfrey

    Susman Godfrey LLP continued to push for victories in class actions varying from auto parts purchasers to film animators in the past year, proving the firm's role as a litigation powerhouse and landing it among Law360's Class Action Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2018

    The Firms That Dominated In 2017

    Law360’s Firms of the Year rose above the competition with a combined 24 Practice Group of the Year awards after helping their clients win game-changing judgments and close record-breaking deals in 2017. Here’s a closer look at how they landed at the top.

  • January 12, 2018

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2017 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.

  • January 26, 2017

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Susman Godfrey

    During a year marked by millions in settlements for auto part customers, rock stars and animators, Susman Godfrey LLP’s success in a series of complex — and wildly different — class actions earned it a place among Law360’s Class Action Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2017

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Its successful efforts to defend clients across a broad range of industries, headlined by its winning defense work in the U.S. Supreme Court’s landscape-shifting Spokeo case, have earned Mayer Brown LLP’s class action practice a spot in Law360’s 2016 Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2017

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Labaton Sucharow

    Leveraging its laser focus on class action litigation and a hard-hitting investigations unit, Labaton Sucharow LLP scored multiple influential and high-dollar awards in securities, antitrust and derivative shareholder lawsuits, earning the firm a place among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2017

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    By helping big-name clients like Uber, Toyota and PepsiCo either clip class action suits, limit their exposure to class claims or reach favorable group settlements, Gibson Dunn has once again earned a spot on Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2017

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    With a series of notable victories across a variety of practice areas — topped by an $835 million settlement that concluded more than a decade of litigation against The Dow Chemical Co. — Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC secured itself a repeat selection as one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2017

    The Firms That Dominated In 2016

    Law360's Firms of the Year rose above the competition in 2016 by earning a combined 20 Practice Group of the Year awards on the strength of work that helped their clients attain game-changing judgments and close record deals.

  • January 09, 2017

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2016 Practice Group of the Year awards, the law firms that racked up victories in litigation and closed the big deals to make their mark among clients and throughout the legal industry.

  • January 14, 2016

    Class Action Group Of The Year: White & Case

    White & Case LLP’s class action practice had another blockbuster year, helping clients avoid billions of dollars in potential liability and establishing novel legal theories in the process to land a spot among Law360’s Class Action Practice Groups of the Year for the third time in five years.

  • January 13, 2016

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    The unique approach Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP takes to class actions secured major triumphs for notable corporate powerhouses like CBS Sterling Jewelers and Procter & Gamble over the past 12 months, sealing the global firm's place on Law360's Class Action Groups of the Year.