This year, The National Law Journal honors six top firms in our nation’s capital for excellence in six categories: general litigation, labor and employment, insurance, intellectual property, products liability/mass torts and white collar. As always, competition was fierce. Two stellar firms share top honors and three score wins in more than one category. For more about their work, read on. — Lisa Helem 

GENERAL LITIGATION WINNER
GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s winning streak in 2017 was marked by cases that may prove instructive for future litigation, including those that took down an Obama-era regulation, enabled a controversial $4 billion oil pipeline project to move forward and squashed class actions directed at wide-reaching cyberattacks and claims of mislabeled snack food.