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 27, 2026

    Energy Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP attorneys convinced the Delaware Supreme Court to reverse a $200 million judgment stemming from a $13 billion pipeline merger, and helped create a novel, cross-border clean energy development platform, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2026

    Energy Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's energy practice has played a central role in the rapid expansion of data centers throughout the U.S. and in record-setting utility transactions, and it even secured a more than $666 million damages verdict against Greenpeace, landing it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 25, 2026

    Energy Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP guided Chevron in its all-stock, $55 billion acquisition of Hess Corp., marking the fourth-largest energy deal of all time and earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 24, 2026

    Energy Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP secured a major victory for Revolution Wind LLC against the Trump administration and represented Brookfield on its $5 billion strategic partnership with Bloom Energy, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2026

    Energy Group Of The Year: Orrick

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP attorneys shepherded several lucrative clean energy deals to completion and convinced the D.C. Circuit to undo its stoppage of an $18 billion liquefied natural gas project, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Energy 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 19, 2025

    Energy Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block

    Jenner & Block LLP's recent work on behalf of power industry players has resulted in cutting-edge courtroom wins and boardroom deals, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 18, 2025

    Energy Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's energy attorneys led EQT Corp. in its $35 billion merger with Equitrans Midstream Corp. and counseled Global Infrastructure Partners in its $12.5 billion acquisition by BlackRock Inc., earning the team a place among the 2024 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 14, 2025

    Energy Group Of The Year: V&E

    Vinson & Elkins LLP helped clients advance billions of dollars of energy transactions, from Permian Basin mega-mergers to major offshore wind acquisitions, and also helped clients embroiled in litigation secure courtroom wins, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 13, 2025

    Energy Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP secured groundbreaking legal wins for some of the U.S. energy industry's biggest players, including Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and The Williams Cos., earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 12, 2025

    Energy Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP worked on large matters for energy clients over the past year, including representing Pattern Energy in securing $11 billion in financing for the largest clean energy infrastructure project in U.S. history, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 11, 2025

    Energy Group Of The Year: Norton Rose

    Norton Rose Fulbright has capitalized on momentum in the energy market to help guide multiple first-of-their-kind projects, including what deal participants have called the largest clean energy infrastructure project in U.S. history, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Energy 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 27, 2024

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    With an achievement list spanning an unusual private market community solar portfolio, financing the Las Vegas Sphere, toll roads and New York City subway connectivity, Winston & Strawn LLP has solidified a place on Law360's 2023 Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2024

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    A $7 billion deal to finance a liquefied natural gas facility in Texas is one of several clean or renewable energy transactions in which Sullivan & Cromwell LLP played a leading role in 2023, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2024

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP guided financing for a Pennsylvania bridge replacement project of unrivaled proportions and navigated a first-of-its-kind tax credit transfer transaction amid a renewable energy portfolio buy, landing the firm a spot among Law360's 2024 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • February 14, 2024

    Energy Group Of The Year: Vinson & Elkins

    Vinson & Elkins LLP won a $280 million judgment for an Antero Midstream Corp. subsidiary in a water treatment facility dispute with Veolia, successfully defended Aera Energy LLC in an oil field development fight in California and also advised on billions of dollars of projects, earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 13, 2024

    Energy Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP was a strong force in the energy sector in 2023, guiding Duke Energy in the $2.8 billion sale of its renewables subsidiary and aiding Venture Global LNG in the largest liquid natural gas project financing in history at $21.1 billion, earning it a spot among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 12, 2024

    Energy Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins LLP attorneys advised Magellan Midstream Partners LP on the largest U.S. energy M&A deal of the year, coming in at $18.8 billion, and were also involved in seeing through four of five industry initial public offerings finalized last year, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2023 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2024

    Energy Group Of The Year: King & Spalding LLP

    King & Spalding LLP won a $16 billion judgment for investors suing Argentina over its nationalization of YPF SA and a nearly $2 billion award for Colombia's Refinería de Cartagena SA in a high-profile construction dispute, while also helping clients advance billions of dollars in projects, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 08, 2024

    Energy Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Attorneys at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP worked on a merger between Exxon Mobil Corp. and Pioneer Natural Resources Co., steered Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co.'s development of the world's largest renewable energy microgrid and expanded the firm's global footprint, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2024

    Energy Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP helped ExxonMobil Corp. pull off the largest deal of 2023 with a $60 billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources Co., earning the firm a place among Law360's Energy 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.