Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP is a multidisciplinary, integrated national professional services firm known for quality and an extraordinary commitment to clients. We are keenly focused on specific industry sectors, providing legal and consulting capabilities at the very highest levels to achieve our clients' business objectives.

Our groundbreaking approach-bringing together legal services, advocacy, and business strategy-differentiates us from our competitors and positions us to provide a unique and compelling value proposition. We strive to be essential to our clients.

From our roots in banking, entertainment, and government, we work with clients from industries as diverse as health care, financial services, media, technology, retail and consumer products, real estate, and energy. Our practice mix and deep understanding of the industries that drive the U.S. and global economies benefit clients as we resolve complex and potentially enterprise-threatening disputes.

Our professionals are leaders-they have served in senior positions, including Chairman and CEO, American Stock Exchange; United States Ambassador to Mexico; United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic; White House Chief of Staff; Chairman, Democratic National Committee; Member, United States House of Representatives; Minority Leader, New York State Assembly; Counsel to the President of the United States; Solicitor General, State of New York; Member, District of Columbia City Council; Chair, Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce; Executive Director, Chair, University of Southern California Law Center Financial Services Institute; Executive Director, State Bar of California; Executive Director, Public Counsel Law Center; President, California Bankers Association; and Chair, Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission.

Our professionals are accomplished-having served as judicial clerks in many Federal District Courts, U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, United States Bankruptcy Courts, and state trial and appellate courts; teaching at major institutions, including Harvard, UCLA, Columbia, USC, NYU, Georgetown, Loyola, and Fordham; participating in prestigious professional organizations such as the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Association of Trial Lawyers, the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, the American Law Institute, and the American Bar Association.

Our professionals understand the intersection of business and government-as alumni of numerous federal and state agencies, including the United States Department of Justice; the Internal Revenue Service; the United States State Department; the United States Department of the Interior; the Federal Trade Commission; the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; the New York State Department of Insurance; the Office of the California Attorney General, and many other regulatory and administrative bodies.

Our professionals are recognized-Manatt partners have regularly appeared in such lists as "Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business"; "The Legal 500 United States"; "The Best Lawyers in America"; "Most Influential Lawyers in Copyright, Trademark, Patent, and New Media"; "Most Influential Women in Real Estate"; and "The Top 25 Legal Stars in California."

Our professionals are interesting-they come from large cities and small towns, from around the country and around the world; they have studied as Rhodes Scholars, played in jazz clubs, written books, served in the armed forces, built businesses, and played high-level sports. We employ both legal acumen and real-world experience in service to our clients.

As we look for new opportunities to serve, we continue to enhance long-term relationships of trust with our clients. That sense of partnership, coupled with a superior record of success, is responsible for Manatt's reputation for excellence, and identity as the firm where professionals perform, not merely practice.