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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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January 11, 2011
Law360's Product Liability Groups Of The Year
In a year marked by high-profile recalls of everything from automobiles to eggs, five firms rose to the top by capitalizing on long-running relationships and trial savvy to shield top-tier clients from potentially crippling losses, placing them among Law360's Product Liability Groups of 2010.
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January 10, 2011
Securities Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
After the financial crisis hit, Citigroup Inc. faced a mountain of litigation so, as the bank usually does, it turned for help to Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, which won outright victories in some of those cases and negotiated favorable settlements in others, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Securities Groups of 2010.
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January 10, 2011
Competition Group Of The Year: WilmerHale
The close-knit relationship between WilmerHale's competition attorneys and its intellectual property lawyers has helped the firm land some huge clients — including Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and Cephalon Inc. — caught up in controversial and cutting-edge cases, earning the firm's antitrust and competition practice group a spot on Law360's Competition Groups of 2010.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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January 07, 2011
Securities Groups Of The Year: Ropes & Gray
Ropes & Gray LLP protected its clients last year by landing a high court ruling that ensured the interests of the mutual fund industry and shielding the largest U.S. children's clothing marketer from a regulatory crackdown with a novel nonprosecution agreement, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Securities Groups of 2010.
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January 07, 2011
Competition Group Of The Year: Latham
Through its careful counsel on major mergers and landmark courtroom wins in cases such as Lundbeck Inc.'s defeat of the Federal Trade Commission, Latham & Watkins LLP demonstrated the kind of success and versatility that are hallmarks of Law360's Competition Firms of 2010.
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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.
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January 06, 2011
Competition Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis
With courtroom victories including the dismissal of Redbox Automated Retail LLC's trade restraint lawsuit against Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. and the defeat of landmark litigation against Barr Laboratories Inc. over the antibiotic ciprofloxacin, Kirkland & Ellis LLP has earned a spot among Law360's Competition Firms of 2010.
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January 06, 2011
Securities Group Of The Year: King & Spalding
In a practice area where trials are rare, the willingness of King & Spalding LLP's securities group to take cases to a jury has netted the firm big wins in 2010 — including one for former Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier — and earned it a place among Law360's Securities Groups of 2010.
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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.
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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.
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January 05, 2011
Securities Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP kicked off 2010 with a groundbreaking triumph in multidistrict litigation over the market timing of mutual funds, and the strength of the firm's securities litigation victories only grew from there, earning it a spot as one of Law360's Securities Groups of 2010.
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January 05, 2011
Competition Group Of The Year: Jones Day
By winning arguably the most important antitrust case of the year — the U.S. Supreme Court decision that rejected an NFL push for broader protections from antitrust scrutiny — among other legal battles, Jones Day has earned itself a place among Law360's Competition Groups of 2010.
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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.
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January 04, 2011
Competition Group Of The Year: Howrey
Always ready to face its clients' regulatory and litigation challenges head-on, Howrey LLP won clearance for oil field service giant Smith International Inc.'s $11 billion sale in one of the largest deals of last year and successfully defended Merck & Co. Inc. against an onslaught of reverse payment cases, earning it a spot among Law360's Competition Groups of 2010.
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January 04, 2011
Securities Group Of The Year: Cravath
Helping Barnes & Noble Inc. secure a win in a bitter proxy fight, working at the forefront of transnational securities fraud litigation and winning a case with implications for third-party liability were among the successes last year that earned Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP a place among Law360's Securities Groups of 2010.
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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.
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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.
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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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January 03, 2011
Law360's Competition Groups Of The Year
Faced with a quiet U.S. antitrust enforcement regime, several law firms' competition practices stood out in 2010 by steering controversial transactions through merger reviews and recording big wins for major corporations in civil antitrust suits, earning them a spot among Law360's Competition Groups Of 2010.
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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.
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January 03, 2011
Law360's Securities Groups Of The Year
In a year of big decisions and even bigger settlements in the securities arena, a handful of firms stood out for their ability to score results that not only protected their clients but also influenced the future of the law, earning them a spot among Law360's Securities Groups of 2010.