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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 31, 2018

    Privacy Group Of The Year: Edelson

    Edelson PC has demonstrated its dogged commitment to protecting consumer privacy rights over the past year, landing among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year with accomplishments like defending its standing victory in a closely watched suit against Spokeo Inc. and securing more than $130 million in settlements.

  • January 30, 2018

    Privacy Group of the Year: Gibson Dunn

    The privacy team at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP swatted away a massive data breach suit against a government background check contractor while helping longtime clients Uber and Facebook fend off data security disputes, remaining a go-to firm for tech giants in behind-the-scenes cybersecurity matters and landing it a spot on Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2018

    Privacy Group of the Year: Cooley

    When the likes of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Niantic and the Golden State Warriors faced privacy suits in 2017, they relied on attorneys at Cooley LLP to solve complex issues posed by the handling of sensitive information, resulting in innovative legal solutions and the firm being named among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2018

    Privacy Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC last year carved out new legal ground in brokering a record-setting $115 million deal to end litigation over a massive 2015 data breach at the nation's second-largest health insurer, enough to earn the firm a spot among Law360's 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.

  • February 02, 2017

    Privacy Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray LLP

    Ropes & Gray's work on what's sure to be one of the most important privacy decisions coming down the pipe in 2017 — LabMD's appeal against the Federal Trade Commission over its data security practices — makes the firm's privacy team one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2017

    Privacy Group Of The Year: Orrick

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP scored a major victory for Microsoft Corp. last year when the Second Circuit ruled the U.S. government cannot use search warrants to obtain customer data stored overseas, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2017

    Privacy Group Of The Year: Lieff Cabraser

    In the rapidly evolving legal realm of digital privacy, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP’s consumer protection and privacy practice is going up against big names like Google and Facebook in digital privacy class actions and representing plaintiffs in the fallout from headline-grabbing data breaches at companies like Anthem and Sony Pictures Entertainment, earning it a place among Law360’s 2016 Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2017

    Privacy Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    Combining a team-based approach with technical know-how, King & Spalding LLP’s privacy lawyers were able to successfully resolve dozens of proposed data breach class actions filed against retailers Home Depot and Sears Holdings last year, earning it a spot among Law360’s 2016 Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • January 27, 2017

    Privacy Group of the Year: Cooley

    Cooley LLP appears to be a darling of the giants of Silicon Valley, and its wins this year for Facebook, Twitter and Google in privacy actions make it one of Law 360's 2016 Privacy 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 21, 2016

    Privacy Group of the Year: Ropes & Gray

    Ropes & Gray LLP returned to Law360’s Privacy Groups of the Year for the fourth time in five years by making key hires that bolstered the compliance side of the practice and by securing Wyndham Hotels and Resorts a settlement in a rare contest against the Federal Trade Commission over data security.

  • January 20, 2016

    Privacy Group Of The Year: Munger Tolles & Olson

    Munger Tolles & Olson LLP’s privacy and data security team defended ESPN and Disney Interactive from claims their apps violated user privacy, secured the end to class action suits against LinkedIn and wiped out privacy claims against a smartphone manufacturer, making it one of Law360’s Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2016

    Privacy Group Of The Year: Cooley

    Cooley LLP has burnished its reputation for top-flight privacy work with appellate victories for Sony under the Video Privacy Protection Act and for Facebook in litigation challenging the use of minors' names and likenesses in ads, earning the firm a place among Law360's Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2016

    Privacy Group Of The Year: BakerHostetler

    While beating back a proposed class action against its client GameStop over its sharing of subscribers' personal information with Facebook, BakerHostetler's privacy group helped develop important case law in the privacy arena, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Privacy 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.

  • February 04, 2015

    Privacy Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    Sidley Austin LLP secured dismissals of data breach class actions against Neiman Marcus Group LLC and Michaels Stores Inc. and fended off the government's bid to toss military social liaison Jill Kelley's Privacy Act suit against the Pentagon and the FBI, making it a Law360 Privacy Group of the Year.

  • February 03, 2015

    Privacy Group Of The Year: Cooley

    Cooley LLP successfully defended Facebook Inc. in a class action accusing the social networking giant of violating users' privacy rights and helped Google Inc. beat large class claims over the scanning of Gmail messages involving more than 400 million Gmail accounts, landing the firm among Law360's Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • February 02, 2015

    Privacy Group Of The Year: BakerHostetler

    BakerHostetler’s privacy and data protection team stepped up to the plate in 2014, to dispose of novel arguments raised in data breach class actions against Advocate Health & Hospitals Corp. and Eisenhower Medical Center, and to help a star pitcher for the Detroit Tigers squash the spread of leaked photos, earning the team a place among Law360's Privacy Groups 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 15, 2014

    Privacy Group Of The Year: Wilson Sonsini

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC attorneys' eagerness to aggressively tackle cutting-edge privacy issues led to the defeat of consumer tracking and data misuse claims levied against Google Inc. and the quick disposal of spam-texting allegations facing Twitter Inc. and Square Inc., earning them a spot among Law360's Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.

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