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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 02, 2013

    IP Group Of The Year: Finnegan

    From winning a key precedent on joint patent infringement to helping AOL Inc. score a $1 billion patent deal, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP has used its range of expertise to notch victories for clients over the past year, earning the firm a place on Law360's list of IP Groups of 2012.

  • 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

    IP Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    WilmerHale attorneys not only convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that inventors were entitled to first claim patent rights this past year, but also helped i4i LP secure a patent ruling against Microsoft Corp. in the high court just three days later, earning it a place among Law360's IP Groups of 2011.

  • January 06, 2012

    IP Group Of The Year: O'Melveny

    Facing an appeal from Psystar Corp. over copyright misuse of the Mac OS X operating system, Apple Inc. turned to O'Melveny & Myers LLP's seasoned intellectual property team, which in September got the Ninth Circuit to uphold an injunction against Psystar in the high stakes case, securing it a place among Law360's IP Groups of 2011.

  • January 05, 2012

    IP Group Of The Year: Munger Tolles & Olson

    The intellectual property team at Munger Tolles & Olson LLP secured a landmark ruling for Abbott Laboratories that tightened the standards for proving inequitable conduct and reached a major settlement with file-sharing software maker LimeWire LLC on behalf of the record industry, earning the firm a spot on Law360's list of Intellectual Property Groups of 2011.

  • January 04, 2012

    IP Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP secured a victory for French appliance maker SEB SA and reshaped the patent litigation landscape by persuading the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt a new legal standard for the mental state that must be proven to show induced infringement, earning the law firm a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property Groups of 2011.

  • January 03, 2012

    IP Group of the Year: Kirkland

    From helping Apple Inc. protect its iPhone patents from HTC Corp. smartphones to leading the Associated Press in its copyright infringement case over Shepard Fairey's Obama "Hope" posters, Kirkland & Ellis LLP's intellectual property team notched big wins across the board in 2011, earning a spot on Law360's list of IP Groups of 2011.

  • January 10, 2011

    IP Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    In one of the most important patent cases of 2010, WilmerHale convinced a federal appeals court that Philips Corp.'s joint efforts to develop standard technology for recordable compact discs with Sony Corp. did not amount to patent misuse, just one of the reasons the firm earned a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property Groups of 2010.

  • January 07, 2011

    IP Group Of The Year: Orrick

    From its successful challenge to a court order requiring MGA Entertainment Inc. to abandon its line of Bratz dolls to helping Microsoft Corp. shut down a network of e-mail spammers based in China, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's victories in the past year have earned it a spot among Law360's IP Groups of 2010.

  • January 06, 2011

    IP Group Of The Year: Howrey

    Despite being called upon late in the game to represent DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials LLC in its complex and long-running patent infringement suit against Cabot Microelectronics Corp., Howrey LLP secured a sweeping victory in its client's favor last year, helping to earn it a spot among Law360's IP Groups of 2010.

  • January 05, 2011

    IP Group Of The Year: Finnegan

    Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP's work representing patent applicant Bernard Bilski and software company i4i LP in two of last year's most talked-about intellectual property battles, among other achievements, has earned the firm a place among Law360's IP Groups of 2010.

  • January 04, 2011

    IP Group Of The Year: Bingham McCutchen

    During the past year, the intellectual property practice group at Bingham McCutchen LLP played a vital role in scoring the largest known copyright infringement award in history for its client Oracle Corp., just one of the accomplishments that has landed the firm a spot among Law360's IP Groups of 2010.

  • January 03, 2011

    Law360's IP Groups Of The Year

    In a year packed with major intellectual property rulings, five law firms distinguished themselves from the pack not only for their wins in bet-the-company disputes but also for their work on cases that led to much-needed clarity in murky areas of the law, earning them a spot among Law360's IP Groups of 2010.

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