NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ALM's The American Lawyer has awarded a second consecutive Litigation Department of the Year award to Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher – unprecedented in the decade-old competition -- citing the firm’s extraordinary string of significant victories in landmark cases. Runners-up for the biennial prize, which is based on results in the two-year period ending last July, were Boies, Schiller & Flexner; Mayer Brown; O’Melveny & Myers; Sidley Austin; and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
"We initially didn’t want to give the award to the same firm two times in a row," said Editor in Chief Robin Sparkman, "but it was hard to argue with Gibson, Dunn's spectacular work for Wal-Mart, proponents of gay marriage, former AIG executive Joseph Cassano, and Chevron—among many other clients."
The January issue of The American Lawyer, posted at www.americanlawyer.com, also recognizes top firms in three litigation specialties, and for the first time selects three Litigators of the Year:
- Product Liability Litigation Department of the Year. Winner: Shook, Hardy and Bacon. Finalists: King & Spalding and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
- Labor and Employment Litigation Department of the Year. Winner: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Finalists: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and Proskauer Rose.
- Intellectual Property Litigation Department of the Year. Winner: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner. Finalists: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
- Litigators of the Year. Winners: David Boies of Boies, Schiller & Flexner; Joshua Rosenkranz of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; and Anton Valukas of Jenner & Block. Finalists: James Hurst of Winston & Strawn; William Lee of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr; Theodore Olson of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Diane Sullivan of Dechert; and Charles Verhoeven of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.
Separately, The American Lawyer looked back at 2011’s “Newsmakers of the Year”, profiling such legal headliners as U.S. district court judge Jed Rakoff, who refused to sign off on a Securities and Exchange Commission settlement with Citigroup Inc.; the lawyers at Quinn Emanuel and Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman who sued many of the world’s largest banks on behalf of the Federal Housing Finance Agency; and U.S. attorney Preet Bharara for his wide-ranging insider-trading investigation.
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