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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 30, 2018

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

    Williams & Connolly LLP got multiple courts to uphold patents protecting Eli Lilly's lung cancer drug Alimta, helped Alcon Laboratories escape a trade secrets case stemming from a partnership gone wrong and prevented the revival of a pay-for-delay class action against AstraZeneca, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2018

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings

    Paul Hastings LLP convinced the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board to invalidate a major patent covering AbbVie's $16 billion biologic Humira and uphold four patents covering an Acorda Therapeutics Inc. multiple sclerosis drug, landing the firm a spot among Law360's 2017 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2018

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Fish & Richardson

    Fish & Richardson PC led Coherus BioScience in invalidating three Humira patents, won GlaxoSmithKline $235 million in a post-market infringement challenge and scored $14 million in attorneys’ fees in the roller coaster aftermath of a $200 million infringement verdict, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2017 Life Sciences Groups 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

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: White & Case

    White & Case LLP’s global pharmaceuticals and health care group scored major victories defending clients in reverse payment and product-hopping cases, including a Third Circuit ruling that affirmed the dismissal of an antitrust suit over the acne medication Doryx, securing a place among Law360’s Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 15, 2017

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP's life sciences team pulled off a string of courtroom victories in 2016 that included notable intellectual property decisions, while navigating big-budget transactions, settling tax controversies for top-level clients and landing on Law360’s list of Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 14, 2017

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP won the mid-trial dismissal of a suit claiming GlaxoSmithKline’s antidepressant Paxil causes birth defects, successfully challenged FDA guidance for R.J. Reynolds and led small biotech companies in major transactions, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360’s 2016 Groups of the Year.

  • February 13, 2017

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Goodwin Procter

    Goodwin Procter LLP’s life sciences team in 2016 continued to build its reputation as a top choice for high-profile pharmaceutical clients, particularly in licensing deals, mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings, earning a spot on Law360’s list of Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 10, 2017

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Covington & Burling

    Whether it’s orchestrating billion-dollar transactions, winning contentious litigation or providing regulatory advice on cutting-edge technology, Covington & Burling LLP has long immersed itself in the life sciences industry, and its recent work has, for the sixth consecutive year, earned it a spot among Law360’s Life Sciences 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 08, 2016

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Wilson Sonsini

    Silicon Valley heavyweight Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati was at the forefront of one of the largest IPOs in the history of the life sciences industry last year, guiding cancer treatment developer NantKwest Inc. to a $207 million debut and placing the firm's life science practitioners squarely on Law360's Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • January 07, 2016

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    Sidley Austin LLP continued to establish itself as a leader in the life sciences sector by adding several high-profile hires in China and the U.S. and helping clients to a series of major court victories, including for Bayer Corp. in its win over federal regulators, making it one of Law360’s Life Sciences Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 06, 2016

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Irell & Manella LLP

    Irell & Manella LLP's series of victories largely in the world of life sciences patent law, including a closely watched win for Ariosa Diagnostics Inc. defining patentability in diagnostic tests, has earned the firm a spot on Law360's Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • January 05, 2016

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn's life sciences practice scored a last-minute injunction for Sanofi-Aventis in a complex battle over an insulin injection device and protected the company from allegations it overcharged the U.S. hundreds of millions of dollars for another drug, earning the firm a spot on Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 04, 2016

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP’s life sciences practice led Eli Lilly & Co. to trial court wins over its antidepressant Cymbalta and helped guide Allergan PLC through a multibillion-dollar acquisition, securing the group a place as one of Law360’s Practice Groups of the Year.

  • 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.

  • January 20, 2015

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: White & Case

    White & Case LLP's work on complex, high-stakes litigation and deals on behalf of major clients such as pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc.'s Lipitor antitrust litigation and Zimmer Holdings Inc.'s proposed $13.4 billion acquisition of Biomet Inc. has again earned it a spot among Law360's Life Sciences Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2015

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP had a hand in some of 2014’s largest and most controversial pharmaceuticals deals, including AbbVie Inc.’s aborted takeover of Shire PLC and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc.’s hostile bid for Allergan Inc., landing the firm among Law360’s Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2015

    Life Sciences Group Of the Year: Skadden

    In a year bursting with merger deals in the life sciences sector, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP guided Merck KGaA through one of the biggest — a $17 billion acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich Corp., securing the firm a place on Law360's list of Life Sciences Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2015

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP’s life sciences practice group helped Merck & Co. Inc. sell its consumer products division to Bayer AG for $14.2 billion and beat back a suit seeking Pfizer Inc. compliance records on file with the federal government, the first of its kind, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2015

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    The life sciences industry was flush with initial public offerings and mergers in 2014 as investors sought yield in the relative risk of cutting-edge companies, and Latham & Watkins LLP’s attorneys advised on $354 billion in deals, including the $66 billion Actavis PLC purchase of Allergan Inc., landing the firm among Law360’s Life Sciences Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2015

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Kaye Scholer

    Kaye Scholer LLP’s life sciences practice secured key wins for Pfizer Inc. in high-profile product-liability cases and multidistrict litigation over its antidepressant Zoloft’s alleged risks of birth defects, including what is believed to be the most significant Daubert victory in the life sciences sector last year, earning the team a spot among Law360's Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

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