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 14, 2014

    Privacy Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray

    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.

  • January 13, 2014

    Privacy Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    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.

  • January 10, 2014

    Privacy Group Of The Year: Cooley

    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.

  • January 09, 2014

    Privacy Group Of The Year: BakerHostetler

    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.

  • 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 23, 2013

    Privacy Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray

    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.

  • January 22, 2013

    Privacy & CP Group Of The Year: Perkins Coie

    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.

  • January 18, 2013

    Privacy Group of the Year: Morrison & Foerster

    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.

  • January 17, 2013

    Privacy & CP Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    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.

  • January 16, 2013

    Privacy & CP Group Of The Year: Covington & Burling

    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.

  • 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 09, 2012

    Privacy & CP Group Of The Year: Wilson Sonsini

    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.

  • January 06, 2012

    Privacy & CP Group Of The Year: Reed Smith

    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.

  • January 05, 2012

    Privacy & CP Group Of The Year: Covington

    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.

  • January 04, 2012

    Privacy & CP Group of the Year: Cooley

    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.

  • January 03, 2012

    Privacy & CP Practice Group Of The Year: Arnold & Porter

    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.

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