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 03, 2025

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP pulled off a legal high-wire act guiding FTX Trading Ltd. through a complex $16 billion bankruptcy proceeding while navigating a parallel criminal investigation into the crypto exchange's collapse, securing the firm's place among the 2024 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2025

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP successfully ended a five-year government investigation into alleged illegal monkey importation by two drug development companies with no enforcement actions and secured a favorable plea for a private equity manager accused of what prosecutors claimed was the most significant white collar case ever in Oregon, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2025

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Kaplan Marino

    Kaplan Marino secured a client's acquittal of federal bribery charges, dismissal of state charges for an attorney accused in a kickback scheme and negotiated a probated sentence for a doctor accused of over 40 state crimes, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2025

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP won a showdown with the IRS that resulted in a rare public apology from the government and then dismantled a high-profile manslaughter case against actor Alec Baldwin, to name a few achievements that landed the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2025

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP secured a $4.3 billion plea agreement to resolve an investigation by multiple agencies into cryptocurrency exchange Binance and achieved a no-penalty resolution for Mercedes-Benz in the "Dieselgate" scandal that caused other car companies to pay out billions, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 White Collar 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 11, 2024

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    Winston & Strawn LLP is serving as lead counsel to Hunter Biden in several different legal matters, including a federal gun charge and a congressional inquiry, and won full acquittal for Matthew Grimes, a former assistant to Trump ally Thomas Barrack, on charges that he'd assisted in a foreign influence campaign in the U.S., earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • March 08, 2024

    White Collar Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    WilmerHale's white-collar attorneys advised mining giant Glencore in resolving bribery and market manipulation charges and steered Alameda Research's former CEO through criminal proceedings over FTX's collapse, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • March 07, 2024

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Shearman

    Shearman & Sterling LLP showcased the firm's global reach and expertise in navigating tricky cross-border challenges while defending Danske Bank in a major money laundering probe, one of several achievements that secured the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • March 06, 2024

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Kramer Levin

    Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP won strong outcomes last year for clients including former New York Lieutenant Gov. Brian Benjamin in a prosecution over bribery charges, a Deerfield Management Co. LP analyst accused of insider trading, and a regional bank facing the collapse of a merger agreement, earning the team recognition as one of Law360's 2023 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • March 05, 2024

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    The white collar and investigations team at Jones Day scored an acquittal in the retrial of a man who had spent 15 years in prison, notched an appellate victory that rippled across the Varsity Blues college admission cases, and has deftly guided Minneapolis through the aftermath of George Floyd's murder, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 White Collar 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

    White Collar Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP had a hand in some of the highest profile and most complex white collar cases of the past year, including ongoing actions against Nissan ex-chairman Carlos Ghosn and Archegos Capital Management, securing the firm's place among Law360's 2022 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • March 08, 2023

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    White collar attorneys at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP are representing the co-founder of Ripple Labs Inc. in a government lawsuit that could determine whether cryptocurrency trading on U.S. platforms requires registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • March 07, 2023

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP guided crypto lender BlockFi through a first-of-its kind regulatory action with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and several dozen state regulators, and reached a quick $5.8 billion settlement for insurance giant Allianz in what it called one of the largest corporate criminal cases ever, earning a spot in Law360's 2022 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • March 06, 2023

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Levine Lee

    Levine Lee LLP's landmark win in a Libor-rigging case and a knack for fending off prosecutions before they wind up in the news are among the achievements that helped the boutique firm earn a spot among Law360's 2022 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • March 03, 2023

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings

    Paul Hastings LLP took home white collar wins last year, including securing a $475 million deferred-prosecution resolution for Credit Suisse over financing for development in Mozambique, making it one of Law360's 2022 White Collar 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.

  • January 27, 2022

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings

    Paul Hastings LLP guided Goldman Sachs through a $2.9 billion plea deal that resolved a criminal investigation into the bank's role in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd. scandal, and helped reverse the fraud convictions of former Wilmington Trust Corp. executives, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2022

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP won a full defense verdict for an engine maker's CEO and narrowed what the feds described as a multibillion-dollar trade secret case against a Taiwanese chipmaker to a one-count guilty plea and nominal fine, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 White Collar Groups of the Year.  

  • January 25, 2022

    ​White Collar Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP deftly navigated a shifting regulatory landscape as it clinched favorable resolutions in SEC probes of Kraft-Heinz and Deutsche Bank — and exposed significant prosecutorial missteps defending a $500 million real estate fraud case — earning the firm a place among Law360's 2021 White Collar Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2022

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Debevoise

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP helped Toyota and Capital One exit yearslong U.S. Department of Justice investigations without any criminal charges and secured a not guilty verdict for Shell in an Italian bribery trial, earning it a spot among Law360's 2021 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2022

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Cleary Gottlieb

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP investigated sexual harassment claims against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and convinced Manhattan federal prosecutors to drop their fraud case against a Wall Street executive, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2021 White Collar Groups of the Year.

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