The American Lawyer reflected on a year full of change, growth and innovation at the first American Lawyer Industry Awards in New York last week. One of the winners at that event was Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, who took home the award for Texas Litigation Department of the Year.

Gibson Dunn is a national firm, but its Texas litigation practice functions like a local one. Among its large local clients, the firm co-led the defense of AT&T’s $108 billion acquisition of Time Warner against an antitrust challenge from the Department of Justice, and secured a victory for Fort Worth-based BNSF Railway in a multibillion-dollar price-fixing class action. The firm also won a take-nothing judgment in an $8 billion bet-the-company arbitration for construction clients Bechtel Corp. and Jacobs Engineering, and convinced the EPA to voluntarily dismiss all Clean Air Act claims against Texas-based Luminant Energy.