Try our Advanced Search for more refined results
Modern Lawyer
-
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Davis Polk
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP attorneys advised Intra-Cellular Therapies Inc. on its $14.6 billion sale to Johnson & Johnson, guided Endo Inc. through its $6.7 billion merger with Mallinckrodt PLC and advised Novo Nordisk in its proposed $9.1 billion acquisition of Metsera, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
-
Construction Group Of The Year: Cozen O'Connor
Cozen O'Connor's construction practice group has had major achievements such as successfully representing a joint venture for a $6 billion Massachusetts wind farm project and obtaining a $65 million settlement for Japanese transportation company Hitachi Rail in its yearslong lawsuit against the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, earning the group a spot among the 2025 Law360 Construction Groups of the Year.
-
Corporate Clients Want Receipts On Law Firm AI
Both law firms and in-house legal teams say they are noticing an uptick in requests for proposals that demand greater detail on how outside counsel uses artificial intelligence to increase efficiency for client work.
-
Bradley Arant Adds Maynard Nexsen Real Estate Duo In Dallas
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has bulked up its real estate offerings with a pair of partners in Dallas who came aboard from Maynard Nexsen PC.
-
Taft Adds 5-Person IP Team From McAndrews Held
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP announced on Wednesday that it has hired a group of four attorneys and one patent agent from McAndrews Held & Malloy Ltd. in the Chicago, Minneapolis and West Palm Beach, Florida, offices.
-
Manhattan Legal Sector Notches 18% Spike In Leasing Activity
Demand for office leasing in Manhattan's legal sector increased nearly 18% year-over-year in 2025, with 3.74 million square feet of office leasing activity — the second-highest annual total on record, according to a report released Tuesday by Colliers.
-
Senior Energy Department Atty Joins Holland & Knight In DC
Holland & Knight LLP announced that it has brought the former acting deputy chief counsel with the U.S. Department of Energy to its office in Washington, D.C., touting her expertise in federal finance and energy law.
-
How Introverted Lawyers Can Build Confidence And Thrive
Despite being a third-generation lawyer, Claire E. Parsons had a recurring fear in the early part of her career that she did not belong as an attorney, at her firm, or in her practice.
-
Alston & Bird Litigator Jumps To LA Boutique Rushing McCarl
Los Angeles-based business litigation boutique Rushing McCarl LLP is adding to its ranks, announcing Tuesday that it is bringing in an Alston & Bird LLP litigator as a partner.
-
A&O Shearman Adds Latham Atty With CFIUS Experience
Allen Overy Shearman Sterling has rehired a former senior Treasury Department lawyer in Washington, D.C., whose practice focuses on Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States matters and a range of other trade compliance issues.
-
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.
-
Trials Group Of The Year: WilmerHale
When WilmerHale isn't defending itself against the Trump administration, its trial lawyers are winning libel cases for clients like The New York Times, helping M. Night Shyamalan beat copyright infringement allegations, and securing millions of dollars for wrongful convictions, placing the firm among the 2025 Law360 Trial Groups of the Year.
-
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.
-
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Lieff Cabraser
The efforts of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP attorneys last year on headline-making litigation, such as the massive wave of lawsuits against social media giants over alleged ills to youth mental health, and their part in a $4 billion settlement for those affected by the deadly wildfires in Hawaii just a few years ago secured their place in the 2025 Law360 Product Liability Groups of the Year.
-
Energy Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP secured a major victory for Revolution Wind LLC against the Trump administration and represented Brookfield on its $5 billion strategic partnership with Bloom Energy, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.
-
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP advised 89bio in a complex sale to Roche Holdings that could be worth up to $3.5 billion and won a precedent-setting victory that allowed Sun Pharma to launch an innovative alopecia treatment, earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
-
Benefits Group Of The Year: McDermott
McDermott Will & Schulte's high-profile executive compensation work, including representing Tesla's special committee on a compensation package for CEO Elon Musk, and multiple litigation victories defending employers against federal benefits lawsuits helped to earn the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Benefits Groups of the Year.
-
Freshfields Bicoastal M&A Tech Duo Move To Covington
Covington & Burling LLP has strengthened its mergers and acquisitions group on both coasts with the additions of two former Freshfields LLP tech M&A partners.
-
Mintz Lands IP Pro From Wilson Sonsini In San Francisco
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC. announced Tuesday that it has added a patent litigation attorney who was at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC for more than two decades to bolster its intellectual property division.
-
ABA Mulls Repeal Of Embattled Law School DEI Standards
The American Bar Association's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has voted to move forward with a plan to repeal its diversity and inclusion standards for law schools, which have been suspended since last February amid the White House crackdown on DEI initiatives.
-
DoorDash In-House Atty Returns To Gordon Rees In Atlanta
A senior counsel for DoorDash has returned to Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP in its Atlanta office, strengthening the firm with her experience with complex litigation in the Southeast.
-
K&L Gates Corporate Attys Jump To Blank Rome In Pittsburgh
Two veteran K&L Gates LLP attorneys, including the longtime former co-leader of its corporate practice, have joined Blank Rome LLP.
-
Kilpatrick Taps Longtime IP Attorney To Lead New York Office
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP announced on Monday that it has appointed a longtime intellectual property attorney to lead its office in New York.
-
Greenberg Traurig Hires Morgan Lewis Benefits Atty In Boston
Greenberg Traurig LLP added to what it called its "strategic expansion" by bringing on a benefits and employment attorney who had previously served as managing partner of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Boston office.
-
Orrick Expands Seattle Team With Reed Smith Energy Expert
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired a former Reed Smith LLP partner to its energy and infrastructure team in Seattle.