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 11, 2016

    Appellate Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    The appellate practice group at WilmerHale had another strong year that was headlined by a major victory in the Second Circuit for tech giant Google Inc. in a copyright dispute over Google Books, landing the firm among Law360’s Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • January 08, 2016

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray

    Ropes & Gray LLP went to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 and won a landmark ruling defining same-sex marriage as a constitutional right as well as a creditor-boosting bankruptcy decision, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • January 07, 2016

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP’s appeals lawyers crowned a remarkable year with a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision that bars admission of juror testimony concerning supposedly biased statements made by other jurors during deliberations, placing the firm among Law360’s Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • January 06, 2016

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells attorneys successfully convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that Maryland’s state income tax law was unconstitutional because it lacked certain credits and that a former federal air marshal was eligible for whistleblower protections after leaking air security plans to the media, landing the firm among Law360’s Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • January 05, 2016

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Goodwin Procter

    Goodwin Procter's appellate attorneys not only talked the U.S. Supreme Court into weighing patent interpretation for the first time in 20 years, but convinced the justices that appeals courts must defer to district judges' interpretations, earning the group a spot among Law360's Appellate 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 21, 2015

    Appellate Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    The appellate pros at WilmerHale had another strong year in 2014 that included a big win at the U.S. Supreme Court, in which the justices reversed a Ninth Circuit decision and found in favor of Pom Wonderful LLC in its false-labeling suit against Coca-Cola, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2015

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block

    Jenner & Block LLP’s appellate group led top broadcasters to victory in the U.S. Supreme Court during an epic battle against online streaming service Aereo Inc., garnering it a spot among Law360's Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2015

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    Sidley Austin LLP lawyers argued a half dozen cases before the U.S. Supreme Court over the last year, winning significant victories against over-reaching federal regulations and in an important case for transportation security, landing it among Law360's Appellate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2015

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Maintaining a historically dominant presence before the U.S. Supreme Court, Jones Day’s issues and appeals group has had a busy year with four victories at the high court, including a constitutional challenge to President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board appointments, earning it a spot on Law360’s Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2015

    Appellate Group of the Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells lawyers spent the last year securing major wins for clients throughout the federal appeals courts, including a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on behalf of insurer Highmark Inc. in a dispute over the awarding of attorneys' fees in meritless patent suits, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2015

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn's appellate group spent 2014 raking in wins before the U.S. Supreme Court, including a game-changing verdict for CLS Bank International that abstract ideas implemented using a computer are not eligible for a patent, earning the law firm a spot among Law360’s Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2015

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Baker Botts

    The appellate aces at Baker Botts LLP scored a big win for client Halliburton Co. at the high court that reshaped the securities class action landscape and engineered a Fifth Circuit victory in one of the most important environmental cases of 2014, landing the practice among Law360’s Appellate 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 09, 2014

    Appellate Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    In the past year, five Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP attorneys argued a total of seven cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, obtaining substantial appellate victories in areas including ERISA, biotech patent exhaustion and the development of First Amendment law and earning the firm a spot on Law360's Appellate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 07, 2014

    Appellate Group of the Year: Latham & Watkins

    The appellate team at Latham & Watkins LLP in 2013 argued four high-profile cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and shut down the governor of Pennsylvania&rsquo

  • January 06, 2014

    Appellate Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP's appellate attorneys last year convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt a stricter standard for plaintiffs to prove Title VII employment retaliation claims, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Appellate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 03, 2014

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day's successful representation of a Michigan man in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case whose decision allowed inmates to file federal habeas corpus petitions after their convictions, if their innocence could be sufficiently proven, helped the firm earn a place among Law360's Appellate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 02, 2014

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn clinched a blockbuster victory for the gay rights movement when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that backers of California’s ban on same-sex marriages lacked standing to defend the law, in a decision that cleared the way for gay couples to tie the knot in the state, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Appellate Practice Groups of 2013.

  • January 01, 2014

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 is pleased to announce the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards, given to firms that excelled at getting the job done for clients in litigation and deals in 2013.

  • January 15, 2013

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    Sidley Austin LLP’s appellate attorneys last year convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an $18 million criminal fine against Southern Union Co. and rule that a Federal Communications Commission indecency policy was unconstitutionally vague, earning the firm a spot on Law360’s Appellate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2013

    Appellate Practice Group Of The Year: O'Melveny

    Scoring coast-to-coast appellate victories — including three in the U.S. Supreme Court — O’Melveny & Myers LLP’s appellate group had a prolific 2012, as it defended clients facing billion-dollar judgments, secured far-reaching federal preemption rulings and redefined constitutional limits on law enforcement, landing the firm among Law360's Appellate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2013

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Morrison & Foerster

    A key U.S. Supreme Court ruling that secured creditors have the right to bid on what is owed to them when a debtor moves to sell its collateral in a bankruptcy auction is just one of the victories that has earned Morrison & Foerster LLP a spot among Law360's Appellate Practice Groups of the Year.