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

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Morrison Foerster

    Morrison Foerster LLP's white collar attorneys were selected as independent FDIC monitors, helped free a client wrongfully detained by the Nigerian government and adeptly guided McKinsey though both opioid and bribery investigations, earning them a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2026

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP lawyers pulled out wins last year for a crypto founder in a major U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission litigation and got the Commodity Futures Trading Commission sanctioned after a high-profile forex case dismissal, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • February 25, 2026

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Barnes & Thornburg

    Barnes & Thornburg helped rewrite the playbook for defending crypto traders by securing a complete dismissal of federal criminal and civil charges against an operator of one of the earliest bitcoin exchanges, and then convincing the government not to appeal, earning the firm's place among the 2025 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • February 24, 2026

    White Collar Group Of The Year: A&O Shearman

    Allen Overy Shearman Sterling guided Swiss global bank UBS AG through the resolution of a cross-border tax fraud dispute in France and helped crypto exchanges KuCoin and BitMEX reach separate resolutions in U.S. criminal cases, securing the firm's place among the 2025 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2026

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP played a leading role in resolving one of the largest emissions fraud cases in U.S. history for an arm of Toyota Group, secured a deferred prosecution agreement for Kimberly-Clark Corp. and helped Stanley Black & Decker navigate parallel foreign bribery investigations, securing the firm's place among the 2025 Law360 White Collar 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 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.