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 28, 2013

    Insurance Group Of The Year: O'Melveny & Myers

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP's ability to win insurers a say in a reorganization plan in one bankruptcy and to outsmart a state intent on saddling its client with almost $70 million in workers' compensation costs in another is what makes the firm's insurance team a Law360 Insurance Practice Group of the Year.

  • January 25, 2013

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Lawyers with Latham & Watkins LLP's insurance group scored big in 2012, recovering hundreds of millions for clients and advancing novel legal arguments that could eliminate a long-standing defense used in California by insurers to avoid payouts, earning the firm a spot on Law360's Insurance Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2013

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Anderson Kill

    Anderson Kill & Olick PC’s insurance recovery attorneys compelled insurers to cough up coverage for the Stringfellow Acid Pits Superfund cleanup and helped to create Ohio law surrounding insurance coverage for retail computer hacking incidents, landing the firm a spot among Law360’s Insurance 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 17, 2012

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Wiley Rein

    Wiley Rein LLP helped a family law attorney insured by CNA Insurance Co. escape a Nobel Prize winner's malpractice claims and convinced courts that certain directors and officers policies do not cover the costs of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigations, earning it a place among Law360's Insurance Groups of 2011.

  • January 13, 2012

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Skadden Arps

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP guided HealthSpring Inc. through its planned $3.8 billion acquisition by Cigna Corp. and won an appeals battle for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., revealing its broad insurance expertise and earning it a place among Law360's Insurance Groups of 2011.

  • January 12, 2012

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Kasowitz

    Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP attorneys persuaded the Second Circuit that MBIA Inc.'s directors and officers policies covered costs stemming from special litigation committees and government probes into alleged accounting fraud — clearing up a murky area of insurance law and earning the firm a spot among Law360's Insurance Groups of 2011.

  • January 11, 2012

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block

    Jenner & Block LLP's insurance practice group helped Tyson Foods Inc. score coverage for $30 million in defense costs tied to environmental litigation and struck favorable settlement deals for investor clients and Duke University, making it one of Law360's Insurance Groups of 2011.

  • January 10, 2012

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Dickstein Shapiro

    When the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus needed to come up with insurance money to pay victims of sexual abuse, or when San Diego Gas & Electric had to tap more than $1 billion in policies to settle wildfire damage claims, they knew to turn to Dickstein Shapiro LLP, whose dominance of the policyholder bar makes it one of Law360's Insurance Groups of 2011.

  • January 27, 2011

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's impressive track record representing American International Group Inc. and its entities in a string of victories, including dodging coverage of investors' purported losses in Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme, has landed the firm among Law360's Insurance Groups of 2010.

  • January 26, 2011

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Pillsbury Winthrop

    Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP secured victories for clients on a wide range of coverage issues in the past year, including a landmark victory that struck down a "pollution exclusion" that has been standard in nuclear liability policies since 1990, placing the firm among Law360's Insurance Groups of 2010.

  • January 25, 2011

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Creative litigation tactics helped the Kirkland & Ellis LLP insurance team land a precedent-setting win for The Dow Chemical Co. in a $145 million coverage dispute last year, one of several pivotal victories for policyholders that earned the firm a place among Law360's Insurance Groups of 2010.

  • January 24, 2011

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Dickstein Shapiro

    Dickstein Shapiro LLP's insurance team garnered victories and hammered out deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars for clients including Tyson Foods Inc., San Diego Gas & Electric Co. and Sempra Energy last year, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Insurance Groups of 2010.

  • January 21, 2011

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP's insurance group has spent the past year securing favorable verdicts and more than 100 settlements in litigation, arbitration and negotiations for corporate policyholders such as Sprint Nextel Corp., Chiquita Brands International Inc. and NCR Corp., earning the firm a place among Law360's Insurance Groups of 2010.

  • January 20, 2011

    Law360's Insurance Groups Of The Year

    In a year marked by large-scale insurance cases stemming from disasters both environmental and financial, five law firms stood out for the significant victories they scored for insurers and policyholders, making them Law360's Insurance Groups of 2010.