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 06, 2026

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Cohen Ziffer

    Policyholder attorneys at Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna secured wins for AMC Theatres in a novel directors and officers coverage matter and for a life insurer in a suit against its own carriers, making the firm a 2025 Law360 Insurance Group of the Year.

  • February 05, 2026

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Rivkin Radler

    Rivkin Radler LLP scored precedent-setting wins for Allianz in opioid coverage litigation before the Delaware Supreme Court and in an Ohio Supreme Court case over coverage for Sherwin-Williams' lead paint abatement fund payments, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • February 04, 2026

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP's insurance practice group advanced key insurance recovery victories for the NFL and former Paramount head Shari Redstone, securing the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • February 03, 2026

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Reed Smith

    Reed Smith LLP secured coverage for aircraft lessors following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and successfully challenged an insurer's underpayment for a semiconductor manufacturing facility's Winter Storm Uri losses, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • February 02, 2026

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Wiley

    Insurance carrier attorneys at Wiley Rein LLP won rulings in 2025 that included an influential decision in a suit involving coverage for COVID-19 losses under policies affording disease coverage, and a determination that a bank wasn't owed more than $100 million in an acquisitions dispute, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Insurance 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 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.

  • January 27, 2025

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's insurance coverage group helped Great Lakes Insurance SE secure a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling that a New York choice-of-law provision in a maritime policy was enforceable, in a case that headlined a banner year for the group — and solidified its place among the 2024 Law360 Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2025

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Covington

    From cementing Merck's win in a $1.4 billion cyber coverage dispute to securing insurance coverage for Tyco in sprawling multidistrict litigation over forever chemicals, Covington & Burling LLP's work in precedent-setting cases has earned it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2025

    Insurance Group Of The Year: O'Melveny

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP attorneys scored important wins for insurers in pandemic business interruption litigation before the California Supreme Court and in a Ninth Circuit case on defense of numerous underlying opioid lawsuits, landing the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2025

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Cohen Ziffer

    Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP gained coverage for opioid litigation against Walmart Inc., convincing an Arkansas court that damages were sought in opioid cases because of bodily injuries, cementing the firm for the second year running among the 2024 Law360 Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2025

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Wiley

    Insurance lawyers at Wiley Rein LLP secured rulings that adopted a carrier's methodology for calculating business expenses under a cyber policy, and strengthened the distinction between civil and criminal defense costs under professional liability policies, helping the Washington, D.C., firm earn a spot among the 2024 Law360 Insurance 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 16, 2024

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Wiley

    Wiley Rein LLP helped major insurers score wins while navigating complex and novel coverage issues, including the applicability of "bump-up" exclusions and the scope of cyber liability policies, cementing the firm as one of Law360's 2023 Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • February 15, 2024

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Insurance attorneys at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP helped Travelers score a win against CVS in a coverage fight over claims stemming from the opioid epidemic, securing the firm a spot on Law360's 2023 Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • February 14, 2024

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP cemented an appellate court victory for Merck in a $1.2 billion dispute over the applicability of a war exclusion in the health giant's property policies this past year, topping a remarkable list of wins that earned the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • February 13, 2024

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Cohen Ziffer

    Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna's attorneys won a rare, pro-policyholder reversal in COVID-19 insurance litigation and secured an even rarer reversal of a jury verdict in a dispute over coverage for a settlement of Medicaid fraud claims, landing the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • February 12, 2024

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Carlton Fields

    After a year of achieving precedential wins defending the travel insurance industry in COVID-19-related class actions and other complex litigation, Carlton Fields has secured its first Law360 Practice Group of the Year award.

  • 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 03, 2023

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Pillsbury

    Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's success in convincing insurers to pony up hundreds of millions of dollars to policyholders, including funds that would later benefit victims of the 2021 Champlain Towers South condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, has earned it a place among Law360's 2022 Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • February 02, 2023

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Wiley

    Wiley Rein LLP successfully defended insurers in two separate Delaware Supreme Court cases whose outcomes gave new weight to insurance policy language, affirming long-held industry positions and earning the firm a spot on Law360's 2022 Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2023

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Steptoe & Johnson

    Law firms like Steptoe & Johnson LLP stand apart among Law360's 2022 Insurance Groups of the Year not only for victories in COVID-19 coverage cases but also for its ability to lead in the $1 billion settlement following the deadly condo collapse in Surfside, Florida.