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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 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.

  • January 10, 2013

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s appellate attorneys convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse Ninth Circuit law regarding derivative claim limits and to rule that consumers aren’t guaranteed a right to sue credit-repair companies, landing the firm a spot among Law360’s Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2013

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Akin Gump

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's appellate team secured a major U.S. Supreme Court win granting private individuals contracted for government work the same qualified immunity given to government employees, earning it a spot among Law360's Appellate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 01, 2013

    Law360 Selects Top Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 is pleased to announce the winners of this year's Practice Groups of the Year award.

  • January 24, 2012

    Appellate Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    Among the cases WilmerHale argued before the U.S. Supreme Court last year included its appellate attorneys persuading justices that patent invalidity must be proved by clear and convincing evidence in a closely watched case involving Microsoft Corp. and that the Bayh-Dole Act doesn't automatically vest patent rights to federal contractors, earning the firm a spot on Law360's Appellate Groups of 2011.

  • January 23, 2012

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    Sidley Austin LLP's appellate attorneys convinced the U.S. Supreme Court last year to keep courts from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, to overturn a $3 billion dollar award against government contractors and to let railroads sue over a state tax, earning the firm a spot on Law360's Appellate Groups of 2011.

  • January 20, 2012

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP appellate attorneys successfully convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that federal law preempted state vaccine design defect suits, broke new ground in arbitration battles and effectively defended major media companies, victories that earned the firm a place among Law360's Appellate Groups of 2011.

  • January 19, 2012

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    The appellate group at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP notched a landmark victory for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that reshaped class action law and a helped limit the scope of liability for securities fraud in a case involving Janus Capital Group Inc., earning the firm a spot on Law360's Appellate Groups of 2011.

  • January 18, 2012

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    In a long-planned move that turned the world of consumer class action law on its head, the appellate team at Mayer Brown LLP successfully argued AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion before the U.S. Supreme Court, earning the firm a top spot on Law360's Appellate Groups of 2011.

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