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 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 03, 2025

    Technology Group Of The Year: Fenwick

    Fenwick & West LLP attorneys guided Smartsheet in its $8.4 billion acquisition by private equity giants Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners, and notched a number of significant patent litigation victories for Amazon, earning the law firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Technology Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2025

    Technology Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP won a significant victory for Google in an ongoing antitrust case and advised longtime client Apollo Global Management on one of the year's most significant technology deals, a joint venture with Intel, earning recognition as a 2024 Law360 Technology Group of the Year.

  • January 30, 2025

    Technology Group Of The Year: Orrick

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's technology practice has advised on a range of high-value deals and litigation matters in the sector over the past year, including handling over $20 billion in venture financing transactions for artificial intelligence companies and overturning a $2 billion trade secrets verdict, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Technology Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2025

    Technology Group Of The Year: Weil

    Weil Gotshal & Manges' tech lawyers litigated antitrust issues over Microsoft's $69 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard, defended Apple from customers who claimed they were scammed by an app they downloaded from the App Store, and handled the bankruptcy of a major bitcoin miner, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Technology Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2025

    Technology Group Of The Year: Cooley

    Cooley LLP has had a mix of wins in litigation, such as defending Meta in a copyright case stemming from its artificial intelligence product LLaMA, but also helping artificial intelligence-powered diagnostics company Tempus AI with its $410.7 million initial public offering, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Technology 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 07, 2024

    Technology Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's technology team last year led a slew of multibillion-dollar acquisitions, including one involving Cisco, and beat back a DOJ antitrust challenge of UnitedHealth's $13.8 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Technology Groups of the Year.  

  • March 06, 2024

    Technology Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP led Uber to a major victory in a case dealing with driver pay calculation, won a major bench trial in Nevada federal court on behalf of Oracle in a copyright infringement dispute, and advised IBM on three large-scale acquisitions, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2023 Technology Groups of the Year.

  • March 05, 2024

    Technology Group Of The Year: Orrick

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP attorneys advised artificial intelligence companies including MosaicML and Casetext on multibillion-dollar sales and venture capital financings while leading Sonos' ongoing patent infringement fight against Google over the last year, cementing their place among Law360's 2023 Technology Practice Groups of the Year.

  • March 04, 2024

    Technology Group Of The Year: Irell

    Irell & Manella LLP won a $303 million judgment for a company that designs circuit boards in a patent lawsuit against Samsung, a ruling a Texas federal judge upheld later in the year, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Technology Groups of the Year.

  • March 01, 2024

    Technology Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP blocked a Montana law from going into effect that would have banned TikTok across the state and is currently taking on a challenge lobbed at Microsoft over privacy issues stemming from artificial intelligence, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2023 Technology 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.

  • March 09, 2023

    Technology Group Of The Year: Irell

    Irell & Manella LLP secured a $2.3 billion final judgment for VLSI Technology LLC in a suit against Intel Corp., and helped USAA get a $218.45 million jury verdict in a patent infringement suit over mobile technology, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Technology Groups of the Year.

  • March 08, 2023

    Technology Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    WilmerHale beat a $2.75 billion judgment against Cisco on appeal, defeated antitrust claims against Meta in the Ninth Circuit and reached a multimillion-dollar settlement between Intuit and 50 states, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Technology Groups of the Year.

  • March 07, 2023

    Technology Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP showed off its versatility in the past year, helping technology companies like Rivian Automotive hit historic highs with its initial public offering while winning court battles on behalf of Oracle, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Technology Groups of the Year.

  • March 06, 2023

    Technology Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's technology team had another phenomenal year in 2022, as it shepherded more than 80 technology mergers and acquisitions deals valued at more than $415 billion, and successfully defended Micron against allegations of price manipulation, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Technology Groups of the Year.

  • March 03, 2023

    Technology Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP handled some of the year's most headline-making deals, including the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk and the $75 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft Corp., earning the firm's technology group a spot among Law360's 2022 Technology Groups of the Year.

  • February 24, 2023

    Health Care Group Of The Year: McDermott

    McDermott Will & Emery LLP helped push through numerous deals in the health care realm last year, including guiding CVS Health's decision to buy Signify Health in an $8 billion deal, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Health Care Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2023

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2022, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • February 17, 2022

    Technology Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray

    Ropes & Gray LLP in the past year worked on multibillion-dollar deals for tech companies like McAfee and represented Samsung and Roku in patent litigation, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Technology Groups of the Year.

  • February 16, 2022

    Technology Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP advised IBM Corp. on forming a major offshoot business and assisted clients in securing a win before the First Circuit and forming large-scale mergers and acquisitions, cementing the firm's place among Law360's 2021 Technology Groups of the Year.

  • February 15, 2022

    Technology Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped Apple fend off antitrust challenges, successfully defended Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.'s record $3 billion verdict before the Ninth Circuit and secured a victory for Uber in a ruling that found the ride-hailing company's drivers would have to arbitrate their class action, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Technology Groups of the Year.

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