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January 10, 2020
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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January 31, 2019
Seyfarth Shaw LLP won two U.S. Supreme Court rulings last year, including the landmark Epic Systems Corp v. Lewis decision blessing employers' use of class-action waivers, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 30, 2019
Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP has helped women fight sexual harassment and discrimination in both big law and higher education, securing a $3.1 million settlement in the high-profile bias suit against Chadbourne & Parke LLP and a $1.25 million verdict for a former Columbia professor, landing it among Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 29, 2019
Outten & Golden LLP convinced a jury that Computer Sciences Corp. misclassified its workers as overtime exempt and reached multimillion-dollar settlements on behalf of workers accusing Uber Technologies Inc. and Target Corp. of discrimination, earning it a spot as one of Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 28, 2019
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP continued to establish itself as a leader in the employment sector last year by helping clients like Microsoft and Twitter escape class certification bids in bias suits against them, making it one of Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 25, 2019
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's employment practice prides itself on working at the vanguard of workplace law and certainly did so last year, winning major gig economy rulings and conducting #MeToo-related probes for prominent companies to earn a spot among Law360's 2018 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 11, 2019
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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January 11, 2019
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 23, 2018
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP showcased the breadth of its labor and employment practice last year by notching wins in a series of noncompete disputes and a U.S. Supreme Court appeal, earning itself a spot among Law360’s 2017 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2018
Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has spent the past year defending employers on wide-ranging issues, such as securing an appellate win for C.H. Robinson on its use of an arbitration clause in its incentive bonus agreement, making the firm one of Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 19, 2018
In 2017, King & Spalding LLP helped secure a settlement for Bass Pro in an EEOC systemic discrimination suit, win a Sixth Circuit appeal for Meritor in retiree health benefits litigation and defend Peabody Energy from an ERISA stock drop suit, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Employment Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 18, 2018
In the past year, Outten & Golden LLP has gotten results for workers across the U.S. that include a pair of settlements for police and airline pilots in respective class actions brought under a federal law aiding veteran employees, earning itself a nod as one of Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 17, 2018
Seyfarth Shaw’s employment lawyers worked on three cases involving the U.S. Supreme Court while defeating two major lawsuits brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, securing the firm its seventh consecutive spot among Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 16, 2018
Many pieces of Obama-era labor and employment policy fell in 2017, and no private group of lawyers did more on that front than Littler Mendelson PC, earning the workplace-focused superboutique a spot among Law360's Labor and Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 12, 2018
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.
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January 12, 2018
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.
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January 26, 2017
Trimming what was left of a once-150,000-strong class suit against Wells Fargo down to just a handful of individuals and scoring a $3 billion jury verdict victory for HP in a contract case won Seyfarth Shaw's employment litigators a spot among Law360's 2016 Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 25, 2017
Sanford Heisler LLP in 2016 secured more than $3 million under a Title IX suit for the retaliatory termination of a female college basketball coach and struck a $19.5 million settlement with Qualcomm Technologies Inc. over discrimination allegations concerning thousands of female employees, securing it a spot among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 24, 2017
It’s not every year a firm settles a suit involving a class of nearly a half-million people. Outten & Golden LLP’s class action practice did just that, resolving a massive disparate impact suit last year against the U.S. Census Bureau and easily earning itself a nod as one of Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2017
Gibson Dunn scored a major victory for Uber Technologies Inc. when the Ninth Circuit in September said drivers fighting background checks the company ran must arbitrate their cases and cannot act as a class, helping the firm’s employment group once again earn a spot as one of Law360’s Employment Practice Groups of 2016.
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January 20, 2017
Between beating back four class actions against Home Depot and helping the NFL restore star quarterback Tom Brady’s Deflategate suspension, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s labor and employment team easily earned a spot among Law360’s Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 09, 2017
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.
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January 09, 2017
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.
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January 25, 2016
For much of the past year, Seyfarth Shaw LLP has been at the forefront of several high-profile cases involving the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that have set new precedents across a wide swath of labor law, including one instance in which the firm helped Case New Holland Industries Inc. successfully sue the agency to beat back an underlying age bias probe, landing the firm a spot among Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2016
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP continued to establish itself as a leader in the employment sector last year by helping guide clients like Kleiner Perkins to decisive court victories in the much-watched Pao gender bias suit and helping Sephora defeat a wage-and-hour class action, making it one of Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.