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Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Baker Botts
Attorneys in Baker Botts LLP's intellectual property practice successfully resolved a patent infringement case against Ericsson after wiping out a monster verdict against the company and fended off a decade-long licensing case against MasterCard, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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Construction Group Of The Year: Nossaman
Nossaman LLP attorneys advised the city of Los Angeles on the close and groundbreaking of a $2.6 billion convention center renovation, and guided Georgia's tolled transportation authority on an $11 billion freeway project, landing the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Construction Groups of the Year.
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Fintech Group Of The Year: Skadden
As the fintech sector continues to evolve and grow, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP is dominating from the legal side, leading more than a dozen fintech initial public offerings in 2025, including the $713 million IPO of eToro Group Ltd., and earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Fintech Groups of the Year.
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Employment Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP scored wins for several major companies over the last year, including a Second Circuit ruling for X Corp. that courts cannot compel payment of arbitration fees mid-proceeding and one for AstraZeneca in a nearly $50 million equal pay dispute, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath
Cravath scored a win for American Express, convincing a jury not to find it liable for plaintiffs' antitrust claims, and secured the dismissal of more than 50 lawsuits in MDL proceedings in Minnesota for Louis Dreyfus Co., earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.
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Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Skadden
From orchestrating one of the largest initial public offerings in 2025 to navigating Japan's biggest stock listing since 2018, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP demonstrated its ability to execute high-stakes transactions and continued to punch above its weight, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.
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Banking Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's financial services practice steered Discover through its nearly $51 billion merger with Capital One and shepherded SVB Financial Group through its Chapter 11 proceedings after Silicon Valley Bank failed, earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 Banking Groups of the Year.
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Ogletree Brings On Nixon Peabody's OSHA Practice Chairs
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has announced it hired a pair of longtime colleagues who most recently chaired Nixon Peabody LLP's Occupational Safety and Health Administration practice.
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Latham Adds Kirkland, Winston & Strawn Litigators In Texas
Latham & Watkins LLP has strengthened its complex commercial litigation practice with two new partners in the Lone Star State, one arriving from Winston & Strawn LLP and the other coming aboard from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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Legal Services Hiring Started New Year Off With A Bang
The legal sector is off to a good start in 2026, with 5,500 more people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in December, according to seasonally adjusted data released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Morgan Lewis Adds 30-Year Baker McKenzie Atty, Ex-Tax Chair
The former chair of Baker McKenzie's Americas tax practice has joined Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Washington, D.C., team, where he'll work as a partner on transfer pricing disputes and tax matters, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Eversheds Sutherland's US AI Leader To Help Steer Global AI
Eversheds Sutherland has elevated its U.S. head of artificial intelligence based in Atlanta to help lead the firm's global AI team, fortifying its efforts to serve clients in AI-related matters around the world as many companies across industries adopt the technologies.
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Ex-McDermott Atty Fights 'Harassing' Subpoena In Bias Suit
A Black attorney accusing McDermott Will & Schulte LLP of firing her for calling out racial bias has urged an Illinois federal court to reject the firm's bid to get employment records from her previous employer, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, saying the request serves no other purpose than to harass her.
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Axiom Closes Ariz. Law Firm Amid Suit Alleging PE Control
Legal staffing and services provider Axiom received approval Tuesday to shutter its Arizona law firm subsidiary, while a pending lawsuit claims the experiment was tainted by Axiom's private equity backer putting "revenue over ethics."
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Akerman Names Leaders For Corporate, Tax Practices
Akerman LLP announced Tuesday it has appointed new leaders for its corporate practice group and that one of the co-chairs of its tax practice will continue to be the lone leader for the group.
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Seyfarth Adds 2 Co-Leaders To Trade Secrets Group
Seyfarth Shaw LLP has welcomed two new leaders to its trade secrets, computer fraud and non-competes group following the retirement of a longtime attorney at the firm.
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Paul Hastings Lands 8 More Attys For New Charlotte Office
A second group of fund finance lawyers has joined Paul Hastings LLP's new Charlotte, North Carolina, office from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP, Haynes Boone and Mayer Brown LLP.
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O'Melveny Gains Baker McKenzie Tax, Benefits Atty In Calif.
O'Melveny & Myers LLP is expanding its tax and benefits team, bringing in a Baker McKenzie executive compensation expert as a partner in its Silicon Valley office.
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Technology Group Of The Year: Wilson Sonsini
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC's significant victories in high-profile cases, which included helping Google beat a $1.3 billion breach of contract claim over its digital advertising technology and assisting Via Transportation in netting almost $3.5 million in damages in a patent case, earned the firm a spot as a 2025 Law360 Technology Group of the Year.
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International Trade Group Of The Year: Barnes & Thornburg
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has been overseeing the federal government's largest export compliance monitorship and booked several wins for U.S. ceramic tile manufacturers, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Trade Groups of the Year.
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Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Wachtell Lipton
An integrated approach allowed Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz to deftly pivot between transactional work — like the sale of the NBA's Boston Celtics — to representing the NFL's Cleveland Browns in their fight to relocate, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.
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Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells helped clients prevail in protests challenging billion-dollar federal contract awards and guided Lockheed Martin and other companies through major aerospace and defense acquisitions, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.
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Intellectual Property Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP attorneys broke new ground in intellectual property matters last year, successfully defending Cisco in three big-dollar patent infringement cases and prevailing in a trademark dispute at the U.S. Supreme Court, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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Competition Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Attorneys from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP helped bring long-running litigation over alleged Libor manipulation to an end, while steering Mattress Firm to a win over a challenge of its $5 billion acquisition by Tempur Sealy, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2025 Competition Groups of the Year.
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Fintech Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings
Paul Hastings LLP's fintech work has spanned the industry in the past year, from leading FTX's official committee of unsecured creditors through a historic crypto bankruptcy, to counseling Wyoming through the launch of the first state-issued stablecoin and shaping the earned wage access dialogue with its representation of EarnIn, securing its place among the 2025 Law360 Fintech Groups of the Year.
Expert Analysis
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Guest Feature
5 Ways Firms Can Avoid Female Atty Exodus During Pandemic
The pandemic's disproportionate impact on women presents law firms with a unique opportunity to devise innovative policies that will address the increasing home life demands female lawyers face and help retain them long after COVID-19 is over, say Roberta Liebenberg at Fine Kaplan and Stephanie Scharf at Scharf Banks.
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Series
BigLaw Needs More Underrepresented Attorneys As Leaders
Hiring more women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community to BigLaw positions of power is the first key to making other underrepresented attorneys believe they have an opportunity for a path to leadership, says Ernest Greer, co-president at Greenberg Traurig.
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BigLaw firms often focus on increasing their diversity numbers, but without much attention to equity and inclusion, minority lawyers face substantial barriers after they get their foot in the door, says Patricia Brown Holmes, managing partner at Riley Safer.
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Advancing Racial Justice In The Legal Industry And Beyond
In addition to building and nurturing a diverse talent pipeline, law firms should collaborate with general counsel, academics and others to focus on injustices within the broader legal system, says Jonathan Harmon, chairman at McGuireWoods.
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How Law Firms Can Hire And Retain More Black Attorneys
The pipeline of Black lawyers is limited, so BigLaw firms must invest in Black high school students, ensure Black attorneys receive origination credit and take other bold steps to increase Black representation in the industry, says Benjamin Wilson, chairman at Beveridge & Diamond.
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If enough law firms undertake some universal diversity best practices, such as connecting minority lawyers to key client relationships and establishing accountability for those charged with spearheading progress, the legal industry could look a lot different in the foreseeable future, says Frederick Nance, global managing partner at Squire Patton.
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Guest Feature
Diversity Work Doesn't Have To Be Reserved For Partners
Serving on my firm's diversity committee as an associate has allowed me to improve access, support and opportunity for minority attorneys at the firm, while building leadership skills and fostering meaningful relationships with firm management and industry professionals, says Camille Bent at BakerHostetler.