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January 10, 2013
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.
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January 09, 2013
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.
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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 24, 2012
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.
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January 23, 2012
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.
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January 20, 2012
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.
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January 19, 2012
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.
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January 18, 2012
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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January 27, 2011
With a bevy of high-stakes victories, including a clean sweep at the U.S. Supreme Court that recalibrated hundreds of years of copyright law and a Third Circuit win in an antitrust fight over control of the men's professional tennis tour, Proskauer Rose LLP's is one of Law360's Appellate Groups of 2010.
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January 26, 2011
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling narrowing the scope of the honest services law in the case of former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling is among the headline-making victories that earned O'Melveny & Myers LLP a spot among Law360's Appellate Groups of 2010.
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January 25, 2011
Jones Day's appellate team last year helped a headwear manufacturer win a U.S. Supreme Court antitrust fight against the National Football League and had the setup of a Sarbanes-Oxley Act government entity declared unconstitutional, helping the firm win a spot among Law360's Appellate Groups of 2010.
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January 24, 2011
Greenberg Traurig LLP appellate lawyers helped secure a U.S. Supreme Court decision that forced the National Labor Relations Board to reconstitute board staffing levels and, working pro bono, won a ruling that wiped out Florida's ban on gay adoption, making the 56-attorney group one of Law360's Appellate Groups of 2010.
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January 21, 2011
Where some firms' appellate groups swoop in for appeals only, the team at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP is there for clients from the beginning, defending same-sex couples' rights to marry, overturning a fraud conviction for a former media magnate and affixing itself as one of Law360's Appellate Groups of the Year.
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January 20, 2011
Whether they focused on intellectual property, employment or white collar law, several firms stood out for their significant victories at the U.S. Supreme Court and other appellate venues over the last year, earning them a spot among Law360's Appellate Groups of 2010.