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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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February 04, 2015
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.
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February 03, 2015
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.
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February 02, 2015
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.
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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 15, 2014
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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January 14, 2014
Ropes & Gray LLP maintained a leadership position in some of the most closely watched data security and privacy cases of 2013, earning the firm a repeat recognition on Law360's Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 13, 2014
Latham & Watkins LLP's privacy team burnished its reputation as a global ally for businesses handling increasing threats to their data — seeking rapid and discrete legal guidance — and secured key wins for clients including Delta Air Lines Inc., work that earned it a spot on Law360's list of Privacy Practice Groups of 2013.
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January 10, 2014
No conversation about privacy law in 2013 would be complete without the mention of Cooley LLP's game-changing results for Facebook Inc. or its high-profile work with Google Inc., evidence of the growing prominence that landed Cooley among Law360's Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 09, 2014
BakerHostetler's privacy and data protection team used its knack for guiding clients through data breach responses to help Schnucks Markets Inc. and Eisenhower Medical Center escape regulatory probes and secure the dismissal of a class action over the loss of data by Omnicell Inc., earning the group a spot among Law360's Privacy 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 23, 2013
Ropes & Gray LLP's innovative work on high-stakes data breach cases involving Sony Corp. and Heartland Payment Systems Inc. and several pioneering data security cases in 2012 landed the firm on Law360's list of top Privacy and Consumer Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2013
Perkins Coie LLP's full-service approach to providing companies with coordinated expertise from top litigation, regulatory and counseling attorneys has landed the firm an impressive roster of high-profile clients like Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. and secured it a place on Law360's list of Consumer Protection and Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 18, 2013
For not only helping defend clients against several major data security class actions but also for its work staying on top of legal and technological trends to help avoid litigation, Morrison Foerster has earned a spot among Law360’s top privacy and Consumer Protection Practice Groups of The Year.
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January 17, 2013
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP attorneys left their mark on the emerging privacy landscape by helping Flurry Inc. and others escape claims over their allegedly unlawful collection of user data located on Apple Inc. mobile devices and securing a pair of regulatory settlements that allowed Facebook Inc. and Myspace LLC to preserve their data use practices, earning them a place among Law360's Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 16, 2013
Covington & Burling LLP's privacy and data protection practice group secured a victory for LinkedIn Corp. last year by scoring the dismissal of a putative class action that accused the online networking site of transmitting user IDs to third parties, work that helped land the firm a spot among Law360's Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.
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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
When Google Inc. found itself on the receiving end of two major multidistrict litigations challenging its Street View photography program and Android mobile operating software, it turned to the ground-breaking practice of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC for the deep bench and tech-sector expertise that make the firm one of Law360's Privacy and Consumer Protection Groups of 2011.
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January 06, 2012
Reed Smith LLP finessed plaintiffs in multimillion-dollar Web tracking class actions into refining their claims, then flexed its technical expertise to free E-Trade Financial Corp. and two other clients from the suits, showcasing the strength that put the firm on Law360's list of Privacy and Consumer Protections Groups of 2011.
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January 05, 2012
Microsoft Corp.'s swift $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype Technologies SA over five months in October belied the complexity of the data privacy issues that Covington & Burling LLP helped longtime client Microsoft navigate on both sides of the Atlantic, landing the firm on Law360's list of Privacy and Consumer Protection Groups of 2011.
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January 04, 2012
Few technology companies are more closely entwined with the personal information of their users than Facebook Inc., and Cooley LLP earned a spot on Law360's list of Privacy and Consumer Protection Groups of 2011 by helping the social networking giant fend off a string of class actions over its use of users' personal data.
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January 03, 2012
Arnold & Porter LLP attorneys helped convince the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a Vermont law prohibiting pharmaceutical companies from marketing physician prescription data, one of several victories that earned the firm a spot among Law360's Privacy and Consumer Protection Groups of 2011.