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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 26, 2018

    M&E Practice Group Of The Year: Ballard Spahr

    In a year filled with criticism of the media, Ballard Spahr LLP’s lawyers helped The New York Times escape a high-profile defamation suit brought by Sarah Palin and assisted numerous other news organizations fighting for important government documents, earning their spot on Law360’s 2017 Media and Entertainment Practice 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.

  • January 26, 2017

    M&E Practice Group Of the Year: O'Melveny & Myers

    A fierce player in the entertainment sector, O’Melveny & Myers LLP last year advised a major Chinese film company on a deal with a Steven Spielberg production outfit, represented Warner Bros. on Harry Potter theme park attractions and secured a significant win for SiriusXM over older recordings, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s 2016 Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2017

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins LLP's entertainment, sports and media group aided in Legendary Entertainment's $3.5 billion purchase by a Chinese conglomerate and won key rulings for Live Nation and Ticketmaster in a high-profile antitrust suit brought by Songkick, winning a spot among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2017

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block

    Jenner & Block LLP notched a major victory in 2016 with the reinstatement of a $48 million jury verdict it secured for Capitol Records and other music companies and obtained the dismissal of a copyright infringement suit against Jay Z, placing among Law360’s Media & Entertainment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2017

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Irell & Manella

    Irell & Manella LLP delivered important litigation victories for CBS, Hulu and other clients and helped to ink major deals like Wanda Group’s $3.5 billion acquisition of Legendary, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2017

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Davis Wright

    Davis Wright Tremaine LLP defended Rolling Stone in highly publicized cases concerning the magazine’s discredited article about an alleged gang rape — getting one suit tossed and damages slashed in another — and beat back a libel claim by a woman who alleged a fictional character was based on her, earning its media team a spot among Law360’s Media & Entertainment 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 28, 2016

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    From inking industry-changing deals such as DirecTV's $67 billion sale to AT&T to doggedly representing Pandora in a six-week copyright trial, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP worked the gamut of media law in 2015, earning it a spot among Law360’s list of Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • January 27, 2016

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Mitchell Silberberg

    Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP's entertainment practice has steered high-profile trademark and copyright cases, including defending director James Cameron against claims he lifted elements of his 2009 blockbuster "Avatar" from lesser-known works, and tackled precedent-setting litigation for major record companies, earning it a spot among Law360's Media and Entertainment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2016

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block

    Decisive copyright victories in 2015, including cases directly representing the rapper Jay Z, helped Jenner & Block LLP once again earn a spot among Law360's Media & Entertainment 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 30, 2015

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Sheppard Mullin

    Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP’s bustling media and entertainment group deftly handled complex financing and distribution deals on acclaimed films including “Selma,” while its litigation team scored major wins for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. in contract disputes, placing Sheppard Mullin among Law360’s Media and Entertainment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2015

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has represented high-profile media clients, including the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in its royalties row with Pandora and Time Warner Cable Inc. in its pending $45.2 billion merger with Comcast Corp., making it a Law360 Media and Entertainment Group of the Year.

  • January 28, 2015

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: O'Melveny & Myers

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP went to the mat to help media heavyweights like Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Sirius XM Holdings Inc. battle for essential content rights in 2014, earning the firm a spot among Law360s 2014 Media and Entertainment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 27, 2015

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block

    Jenner & Block LLP spearheaded some groundbreaking media cases in 2014, including TV companies’ monumental U.S. Supreme Court win against online streaming company Aereo Inc. and record label EMI’s eight-figure jury award against MP3Tunes LLC, landing it among Law360’s Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2015

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP was involved in the most-talked-about sports media rights deals last year, including the NFL's $12 billion Sunday Ticket pact with DirecTV, and helped seal Steve Ballmer’s $2 billion bid for the Los Angeles Clippers, making it a Law360 Media and Entertainment Group of the Year.

  • December 19, 2014

    Law360 Names Law Firms Of The Year

    Showcasing strength in numbers and the agility needed to serve up top-notch client service on a number of fronts, two law firms secured a combined 18 Law360 Practice Group of the Year awards in 2014 to earn the distinction of Law360's Firms of the Year.

  • December 19, 2014

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year, awarded to firms that came through for their clients in 2014, sealing the big deals and winning the high-stakes suits.

  • January 30, 2014

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: O'Melveny

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP's victory in the headline-grabbing courtroom showdown that pitted its client Anschutz Entertainment Group against Michael Jackson's family over who was liable for the pop star's untimely death helped earn the firm a spot among Law360's 2013 Media and Entertainment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2014

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP attorneys in 2013 won a ruling that Marvel Comics owned the rights to a slew of storied comic book characters, saved ESPN from having to pay $280 million in contractual disputes, and led media clients through high-profile transactions, landing the firm among Law360's Media & Entertainment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2014

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Katten Muchin

    Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP attorneys helped engineer the sale of the NBA's Sacramento Kings to an ownership group that kept the team in California and defended Lance Armstrong in a lawsuit over the disgraced cyclist's autobiography, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2013 Media and Entertainment Practice Groups of the Year.

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