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December 18, 2015
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.
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January 15, 2015
Sidley Austin LLP was industry’s champion in 2014 as it confronted two sets of sweeping air pollution regulations before the U.S. Supreme Court, in one case winning limits on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources, securing the firm a spot among Law360’s Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 14, 2015
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP in 2014 secured a complete defense verdict for International Paper Co. in a $1.6 billion suit over alleged contamination of a Texas river and convinced a Louisiana federal court that a Schlumberger Ltd. subsidiary wasn't liable for the Deepwater Horizon disaster, landing the firm a spot among Law360's Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 13, 2015
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP's young environmental practice had a hand in some of 2014's most-consequential cases related to climate change, including a U.S. Supreme Court challenge to federal regulators' greenhouse gas rules and a fight over California's carbon fuel emission standards, landing the team among Law360's Environmental Groups of the Year.
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January 12, 2015
Hunton & Williams LLP put its stamp on several of the most influential environmental decisions handed down in 2014, including the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gases from stationary sources, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 09, 2015
Gibson Dunn's environmental practice group spent 2014 racking up huge wins for clients, from obtaining a finding that a $9.5 billion damages award against Chevron Corp. for alleged contamination of an Amazon oil field was gained through fraudulent means to securing the dismissal of key plaintiffs' claims in toxic tort litigation against International Paper Co., earning the firm a place among Law360's Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 19, 2014
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.
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December 19, 2014
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.
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January 08, 2014
Sidley Austin LLP attorneys' work on challenges to controversial U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules, including greenhouse gas emissions and cross-state air pollution rules currently being weighed by the U.S. Supreme Court, has earned the firm a spot for the fourth straight year among Law360's Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 07, 2014
Latham & Watkins LLP’s environmental team cemented its place at the forefront of climate change regulation in 2013, helping a coalition of industry players influence new rules for power plant emissions, and won a rare stay of a Clean Air Act rule on behalf of Edison Mission Energy and others, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 06, 2014
From taking a lead role on BP America Inc.'s team in the vast Deepwater Horizon litigation to thwarting an effort to reopen old asbestos settlements to handling the environmental analysis required in Bain Capital Partners LLC's $1.6 billion acquisition of a global tool manufacturer, Kirkland & Ellis LLP's environmental attorneys have earned their spot on Law360's Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 03, 2014
The Hunton & Williams LLP environmental team is playing a lead role in two challenges to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's rulemaking regarding greenhouse gas emissions and cross-state air pollution, landing the practice group on Law360's list of Environmental Groups of 2013.
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January 02, 2014
DLA Piper's environmental group toppled a staggering $1 billion punitive damages award against Exxon Mobil Corp. in landmark litigation over a major gas leak before Maryland's highest court, securing its place among Law360's Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 01, 2014
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.
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January 08, 2013
Sidley Austin LLP attorneys leveraged their regulatory and litigation experience to convince courts to strike down a pair of federal air emissions rules and a state carbon fuel standard and to help NCR Corp. escape arranger liability in a suit over the $1 billion cleanup of the nation's largest Superfund site, earning them a place among Law360's Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 07, 2013
King & Spalding LLP's work defending Chevron Corp. and other clients against potentially costly public nuisance claims tied to greenhouse gas emissions and delivering the energy giant a favorable verdict in a key groundwater contamination trial have earned the law firm's expanding environmental practice a spot on Law360's list of 2012 practice groups of the year.
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January 04, 2013
For its lead role in defeating the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's cross-state air pollution rule to its innovative work developing a cap-and-trade program for nutrients entering the Ohio River, Hunton & Williams LLP has earned a place on Law360's list of Environmental Groups of 2012.
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January 03, 2013
A wide range of achievements across the environmental spectrum, including the successful challenge of a federal cross-state air pollution rule and the licensing of pioneering radioactive waste disposal and carbon capture projects, has earned attorneys from Baker Botts LLP a place on Law360's list of Environmental Groups of 2012.
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January 02, 2013
Arnold & Porter LLP lawyers overturned unprecedented numeric standards for nutrient levels in Florida, scored a ruling that the Clean Air Act preempts state law tort claims over federal emissions violations and helped BP PLC resolve a plethora of environmental issues lingering from the Deepwater Horizon spill, earning them a spot on Law360's list of Environmental Groups of 2012.
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January 01, 2013
Law360 is pleased to announce the winners of this year's Practice Groups of the Year award.
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January 09, 2012
In 2011's landmark climate change victory for power companies, Sidley Austin LLP convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that the Clean Air Act trumped federal common law claims and spared its client American Electric Power Co. Inc. from a nuisance suit over greenhouse gases, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2011.
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January 06, 2012
Mayer Brown LLP's environmental group tackled cutting-edge issues in helping Dow Chemical Co. dodge a high court challenge to the dismissal of novel greenhouse gas tort claims and persuading the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take the unusual step of reconsidering the agency's final rule on boiler emission standards, earning it a place among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2011.
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January 05, 2012
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's environmental group recently scored victories crossing practice areas, brokering cleanup deals to usher Chemtura Corp. out of a high-profile bankruptcy and working on high-stakes transactions, earning it a place among Law360's Environmental Groups of 2011.
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January 04, 2012
Jones Day achieved a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling blocking federal common law nuisance claims over greenhouse gas emissions and rescued multiple coal-fired plants from the threat of massive Clean Air Act penalties for the actions of prior owners, making it home to one of Law360's Environmental Practice Groups of 2011.
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January 03, 2012
Hunton & Williams LLP's environmental practice group secured groundbreaking triumphs in cases of first impression over climate change nuisance claims and Clean Air Act permitting rules last year, earning it a place as one of Law360's Environmental Groups of 2011.