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 24, 2026

    Securities Group Of The Year: Weil

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's attorneys secured a win for chipmaker Silicon Motion Technology Corp. in a securities fraud class action over a busted $3.8 billion merger, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2026

    Securities Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP secured a ruling in the Delaware Supreme Court ending a lawsuit against Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison, and won a case of first impression that greenlighted a client's move out of the state, earning the firm a spot on the 2025 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2026

    Securities Group Of The Year: Skadden

    With more than 100 practicing attorneys across the globe, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's securities practice continues to dominate, securing a $48 million settlement in an event-driven litigation, as well as a unanimous defense verdict in a multibillion-dollar class action jury trial, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2026

    Securities Group Of The Year: Glancy Prongay

    Glancy Prongay Wolke & Rotter LLP has helped secure hundreds of millions of dollars from companies accused of misleading investors, navigating high-profile controversies such as the collapse of Archegos Capital Management LP, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 18, 2026

    Securities Group Of The Year: Labaton Keller

    Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP was named one of the 2025 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year after it finalized a $200 million shareholder settlement with Uber, along with settlements on behalf of investors in Walmart, Discovery Inc. and Olaplex Holdings Inc., capping a year of victories that was also marked by tragedy when its chairman Christopher Keller died of cancer at age 54.

  • February 17, 2026

    Securities Group Of The Year: Robbins Geller

    Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP secured one of the largest shareholder class settlements of all time in a deal with Under Armour Inc. and has defeated multiple attempts by Disney to fend off a lawsuit filed by its investors, making the firm one of the 2025 Law360 Securities 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

    Securities Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP helped Robinhood successfully navigate sprawling "meme stock" litigation, steered freight provider Forward Air to a soft landing in a merger suit and secured a pair of precedential appellate wins for insurance startup Root and Mylan, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 24, 2025

    Securities Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz

    Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP's attorneys recently secured over half a billion dollars for investors of government-sponsored mortgages in their suit against the federal government, and millions more for investors of publicly traded companies like Qualcomm and Perrigo, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2025

    Securities Group Of The Year: Labaton Keller

    Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP continued its work battling big-name companies in corporate fraud cases last year, including securing a $200 million settlement for the Boston Retirement System against Uber Technologies Inc. for allegedly misleading investors, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2025

    Securities Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP won a Fifth Circuit ruling last year that repealed a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule that would have given the agency more oversight over hedge funds and private equity funds, earning the firm a spot on the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2025

    Securities Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    Winston & Strawn LLP secured a unanimous victory on behalf of client Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. before the U.S. Supreme Court last year, winning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 18, 2025

    Securities Group Of The Year: Robbins Geller

    Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP guided investors in securing a $490 million settlement from Apple Inc. in California federal court after alleging CEO Tim Cook had misled them, and obtained a $434 million settlement with Under Armour Inc. in Maryland federal court to settle claims the company had artificially inflated stock prices, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 06, 2025

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP notched critical wins as the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an Eighth Amendment challenge to a city's public camping law and gave insurers a voice in mass tort bankruptcies, making it one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate 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.

  • March 04, 2024

    Securities Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel obtained a complete victory for Elon Musk in an investor class action arising from an infamous tweet, as well as for Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the LA Times who previously helmed immunotherapy company NantCell, in a series of court cases and arbitrations with rival cancer-drug companies, earning it a place among Law360's 2023 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • March 01, 2024

    Securities Group Of The Year: Munger Tolles

    The Munger Tolles & Olson LLP securities group's multiple victories for high-profile clients over the past year, including successfully appealing a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ruling on Grayscale Investment's bitcoin exchange-traded product, has earned it a spot among Law360's 2023 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 29, 2024

    Securities Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins successfully helped Oracle company executive Lawrence J. Ellison and CEO Safra Catz beat a derivative challenge to a $9.4 billion acquisition deal, one of the largest challenges against a corporate deal to go to trial before the Delaware Court of Chancery, earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 28, 2024

    Securities Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    The securities litigation team at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP played a central role in winning a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of Slack Technologies LLC, putting in place new barriers to shareholder suits against companies that go public via direct listings, winning it a spot on Law360's 2023 Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 27, 2024

    Securities Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC's securities team made headlines last year by securing one of the largest securities class action recoveries of all time for Wells Fargo investors and by introducing major corporate governance reforms at several financial institutions after their alleged attempts to obstruct the stock loan market, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2024

    Securities Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz

    Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP recently secured $1 billion for Wells Fargo investors who claimed losses over the bank's risk management practices and reached a $145 million settlement on behalf of investors in Allianz's Structured Alpha Funds, earning the firm a place among Law360's Securities Practice 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.