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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.
  • January 25, 2018

    Insurance Group of the Year: Skadden

    The insurance mergers and acquisitions practice at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP had a busy 2017, shepherding clients through $17.8 billion in deals — including some groundbreaking international transactions — to earn its spot as one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2018

    Insurance Group of the Year: Reed Smith

    Reed Smith LLP's insurance recovery practice had a splashy year, with a huge bad faith finding in Pennsylvania and a significant ruling expanding coverage for private equity firms, landing it among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2018

    Insurance Group Of The Year: McKool Smith

    McKool Smith PC's insurance recovery group scored a series of big wins over the past year that unlocked more than $1 billion worth of coverage for clients, and the cases changed the insurance landscape by setting new precedents in the process, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2018

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells' insurance group scored a win for Blue Cross Blue Shield in antitrust multidistrict litigation and settled a groundbreaking data breach suit against health insurer Anthem Inc., cases that helped it earn a place as one of Law360's 2017 Insurance Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2018

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Debevoise & Plimpton

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP had another year cranking out big M&A deals within the insurance sector and continuing its litigation work in suits like an investor class action against MetLife, making it a Law360 Insurance Practice Group of the Year.

  • 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 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.

  • February 16, 2017

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Steptoe & Johnson

    Steptoe & Johnson LLP's insurance and reinsurance group notched impressive wins in challenging venues over the last year, including victories for an AIG unit in the Fifth Circuit and Travelers Indemnity Co. in West Virginia's highest court, winning it a spot among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 15, 2017

    Insurance Group of the Year: Pillsbury Winthrop

    With a focus on corporate policyholders, the insurance group at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP had its work cut out for it over the last year, but scored favorable settlements for big clients facing property damage, construction defects and interrupted business, landing it among Law360’s Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 14, 2017

    Insurance Group of the Year: McKool Smith

    McKool Smith PC's new insurance recovery practice is off to a fast start, coming out ahead in closely watched cases focused on excess coverage triggers and other key policy issues, landing it among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 13, 2017

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells scored a major win for Chubb subsidiary Federal Insurance Co. in a landmark cyber-liability case stemming from a data breach and helped health insurer Anthem Inc. escape the remaining claims in sprawling multidistrict litigation over a reimbursement dispute, earning the firm’s insurance team a place among Law360’s 2016 Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 10, 2017

    Insurance Group of the Year: Debevoise & Plimpton

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is making a name for itself as the firm insurance companies call when facing potential litigation and investment banks call when insurance issues arise in mergers and acquisitions, including stepping in to aid Exor SpA in its $6.9 billion acquisition of PartnerRe, landing it among 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 13, 2016

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Willkie Farr

    Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP’s insurance group racked up major wins in the past year, including a key victory for a New Jersey energy company in a coverage row over $500 million in Hurricane Sandy damages, earning it a place among Law360’s Insurance Groups of the Year for the second year in a row.

  • January 12, 2016

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Wiley Rein

    After saving XL Specialty Insurance Co. nearly $5 million because its policyholder failed to obtain consent for a settlement, while in another instance landing Starr Indemnity a reimbursement of almost $1 million in defense costs, the insurance team at Wiley Rein finds itself among Law360's Insurance Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2016

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

    Steptoe & Johnson LLP's wins in major insurance cases, including one in which the West Virginia supreme court reversed an $8 million jury verdict against its longtime client Travelers Indemnity Co., have landed it among Law360's Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • January 08, 2016

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Pillsbury

    Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP recovered more than $1 billion for a range of policyholders in 2015, including a $55 million jury verdict in a dispute with three AIG units over coverage for pipe fitting manufacturer Victaulic's product defect claims, earning it a place among Law360's Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • January 07, 2016

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP's dramatic, fit-for-television victory that caused the California Supreme Court to overturn its own recent precedent based on an arcane provision in the state's insurance code, plus successes in other high-profile and complicated cases, have landed the firm among Law360's Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • January 06, 2016

    Insurance Group Of The Year: K&L Gates

    Attorneys at K&L Gates LLP's exclusively policyholder-focused practice won a precedential ruling in Pennsylvania Supreme Court that made it easier for policyholders to settle cases over the objections of inflexible insurers, cementing the group's place among Law360's Insurance Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 05, 2016

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Covington & Burling

    Covington & Burling LLP's insurance practice is one of the largest dedicated to corporate policyholders and the firm threw its weight around in 2015, winning a precedential ruling on Superstorm Sandy's infamous surge and numerous other results that earned the firm a spot among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 04, 2016

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Barnes & Thornburg

    Barnes & Thornburg LLP's insurance recovery and counseling team secured a $204 million verdict for Simon Property Group LP in litigation over flood damage to Nashville's Opry Mills mall, while also notching a win for Anthem Inc. in a reinsurance dispute at the Indiana Supreme Court, landing it among Law360's Insurance Practice Groups of the Year.

  • December 18, 2015

    3 Firms Are Insurance All-Stars

    Three firms have consistently shown they can win big in significant insurance cases, each racking up multiple spots among the insurance practice groups of the year since 2011.

  • December 18, 2015

    The Firms That Dominated In 2015

    Three legal stalwarts landed at the top of the pack in 2015 to take the title of Law360's Firms of the Year, bolstered by their combined 27 Practice Group of the Year wins and their deft handling of high-stakes, high-profile work.

  • December 18, 2015

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Group of the Year awards, given to those firms that came through for clients by sealing the biggest deals and securing wins in high-stakes litigation.

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