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 22, 2013

    Employment Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings

    Paul Hastings LLP's labor and employment lawyers won a blockbuster overtime case at the U.S. Supreme Court for drug company GlaxoSmithKline and helped bankrupt American Airlines Inc. make crucial moves to cut labor costs, two of the achievements that earned them a place among Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 18, 2013

    Employment Group Of The Year: Morrison & Foerster

    Employment attorneys from Morrison & Foerster LLP notched many notable wins last year, but in finally settling the lingering question of whether California employers are required to ensure that meal breaks are taken, the firm easily earned itself a spot on Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2013

    Employment Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    From guiding General Motors LLC and Verizon Communications Inc. in groundbreaking pension derisking transactions to overturning two trial courts' rulings regarding pharmaceutical and steel industry workers' overtime, Jones Day's extensive 2012 employment victories landed them a place among Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2013

    Employment Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    From steering the Third Circuit toward a new test for determining joint employer relationships to preventing class certification in wage suits against Tenet Healthcare Corp. and Sunrise Senior Living Management Inc., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's labor and employment practice group scored an impressive series of wins in 2012 that earned the group a spot on Law360's list of Employment 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

    Employment Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    This past year, Sidley Austin LLP attorneys successfully defended a California hospital in a case with nationwide implications for regular rate overtime calculations, one of many achievements that earned the firm's employment group a spot among Law360's Employment Groups of 2011.

  • January 06, 2012

    Employment Group Of The Year: Seyfarth Shaw

    Seyfarth Shaw LLP filed two amicus briefs that helped shape the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, and then used the Dukes ruling to successfully fight collective action and class certification in cases against Farmers Insurance Exchange and Costco Wholesale Corp., landing the firm's labor and employment team a spot among Law360's Employment Groups of 2011.

  • January 05, 2012

    Employment Group Of The Year: Orrick

    In the face of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC employees claiming compelled patronage, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's employment attorneys successfully fought back with a unique application of federal securities law, just one feat that landed them among Law360's Employment Groups of 2011.

  • January 04, 2012

    Employment Group Of The Year: Greenberg Traurig

    When faced with irate employees out for blood and a multimillion-dollar damages verdict, Greenberg Traurig LLP's labor attorneys snagged a bargain-rate settlement for their clients, just one of many victories that earned the firm's labor and employment practice a position among Law360's Employment Groups of 2011.

  • January 03, 2012

    Employment Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's labor and employment practice group racked up a series of landmark victories in 2011, ranging from helping Wal-Mart Stores Inc. defeat the certification of the largest class in history to getting the National Labor Relations Board's controversial case against The Boeing Co. dropped, earning the group a spot on Law360's list of practice groups of the year.

  • January 10, 2011

    Employment Group Of The Year: Sanford Wittels

    Sanford Wittels & Heisler LLP won the largest jury verdict in a sex bias employment class action in history in 2010 against Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., one of several victories that distinguished the 26-attorney boutique class action firm as one of Law360's Employment Groups of 2010.

  • January 07, 2011

    Employment Group of the Year: Morgan Lewis

    In a case with wide implications in the retail industry, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP convinced a federal appeals court in September that NutriSystem Inc.'s sales commissions need not be based on percentages for employees to be exempt from federal overtime law, one of many reasons it has earned a spot among Law360's Employment Groups of 2010.

  • January 06, 2011

    Employment Group Of The Year: Littler

    Littler Mendelson PC scored a pair of wins in 2010 from the U.S. Supreme Court that helped further define the scope of employment arbitration authority, two of the victories that distinguished it as one of Law360's Employment Groups of 2010.

  • January 05, 2011

    Employment Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    When the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hit Bloomberg LP with a well-publicized pregnancy discrimination suit, the company turned to Jones Day for help, and the firm delivered — including winning the dismissal of all retaliation claims in the case — one of the reasons it earned a spot among Law360's Employment Groups of 2010.

  • January 04, 2011

    Employment Group Of The Year: Covington

    With victories under its belt for clients like Verizon Communications Inc. and Xerox Corp. that shaped precedent for litigation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Covington & Burling LLP has nabbed a spot as one of Law360's Employment Groups of 2010.

  • January 03, 2011

    Law360's Employment Groups Of The Year

    Many law firms posted impressive and precedential employment wins in 2010, but only a few notched achievements on the scale of a landmark sex discrimination victory or the resolution of an epic benefits dispute, earning those firms a spot among Law360's Employment Groups of 2010.