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.
  • February 13, 2026

    Competition Group Of The Year: Munger Tolles

    Munger Tolles & Olson LLP helped Washington state enforcers bring a successful challenge to Kroger's planned $24.6 billion deal for Albertsons and steered major railroads to a crucial pretrial win in long-running price-fixing litigation, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 12, 2026

    Competition Group Of The Year: Wilkinson Stekloff

    Wilkinson Stekloff LLP negotiated a crucial settlement for the NCAA while successfully defending it against follow-up cases targeting player eligibility rules and name, image and likeness compensation, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 11, 2026

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath scored a win for American Express, convincing a jury not to find it liable for plaintiffs' antitrust claims, and secured the dismissal of more than 50 lawsuits in MDL proceedings in Minnesota for Louis Dreyfus Co., earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 10, 2026

    Competition Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Attorneys from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP helped bring long-running litigation over alleged Libor manipulation to an end, while steering Mattress Firm to a win over a challenge of its $5 billion acquisition by Tempur Sealy, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2025 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2026

    Competition Group Of The Year: White & Case

    White & Case LLP scored early wins against algorithmic price-fixing litigation on behalf of hotel chain Four Seasons and netted a nearly $407 million judgment for client Regeneron against Amgen, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2026

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 48 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, achieving milestones such as high-profile litigation wins at the U.S. Supreme Court and 11-figure merger deals.

  • January 16, 2026

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2025, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • February 25, 2025

    Competition Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP got Apple out of a $200 billion lawsuit that accused the tech behemoth of using an illegal monopoly to boot COVID-19 tracking and bitcoin applications from its App Store, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 24, 2025

    Competition Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    The competition group at WilmerHale helped Tesla score a key ruling last year in a case challenging efforts to block its direct-sales model in Louisiana and also helped Novelis Inc. reach a favorable settlement in a long-standing dispute with a rival aluminum supplier, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2025

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    The competition team at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC helped secure settlements worth hundreds of millions of dollars last year for groups of home sellers, mixed martial arts fighters, poultry plant workers and others, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2025

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP scored a trailblazing antitrust verdict for Epic Games when a California federal jury decided Google's Play Store illegally dominated the Android app market, making Cravath one of the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2025

    Competition Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    Winston & Strawn LLP represented former student-athletes who changed the shape of college sports with a $2.78 billion antitrust settlement over the NCAA's name, image and likeness compensation rules, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 18, 2025

    Competition Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP helped pull off a stunning interception-touchdown on behalf of the NFL, convincing a California federal judge to reverse a $4.7 billion jury verdict and carving out a spot for the firm as one of the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • January 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • February 06, 2024

    Competition Group Of The Year: Wilkinson Stekloff

    Wilkinson Stekloff LLP took on the Federal Trade Commission in the second-largest merger trial in American history and won, defending Microsoft Corp. in the agency's challenge to its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc., earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 05, 2024

    Competition Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal & Manges

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP helped tech behemoths like Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. knock out antitrust challenges left and right last year, tangling with competition enforcers around the world and coming out on top, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2024 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 02, 2024

    Competition Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells secured a midtrial deal to end a U.S. Department of Justice challenge to Assa Abloy's $4.3 billion pickup of Spectrum Brands' hardware and home improvement business, making it one of Law360's 2023 Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2024

    Competition Group Of The Year: Hagens Berman

    Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP was able to score numerous wins in the past year, settling litigation accusing brokerages of anticompetitive conduct as well as claims that Perdue Farms conspired to keep wages low, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2024

    Competition Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    The competition group at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP scored key rulings in cases last year for clients including Merck and Chevron, while also helping guide VMWare's $61 billion sale to Broadcom, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2024

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cleary

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP saw one hotly contested merger through to closing, forced the Justice Department to settle another case and helped guide one of the largest-ever tech deals across the regulatory finish line, earning its place as one of Law360's 2023 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2024

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 55 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2023 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • January 19, 2024

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2023, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • February 10, 2023

    Competition Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells helped the nation's biggest insurer go head-to-head with the U.S. Department of Justice last year and win, clearing the way for UnitedHealth's $13.8 billion vertical merger with health care tech company Change Healthcare and earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2023

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's antitrust practice group scored major trial wins for clients in a pair of merger challenges, while also securing a crucial ruling for Blue Cross Blue Shield in antitrust litigation, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Competition Groups of the Year.