Manatt, Phelps & Phillips

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
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Headquarters	Los Angeles
No. of offices	8
No. of attorneys	336
Major practice areas	General practice
Revenue	$303 million (2014)
Date founded	1965
Company type	LLP
www.manatt.com

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP is a Los Angeles-based law firm of more than 400 attorneys and other professionals founded in 1965. The firm earned revenues of $303 million in 2014. Manatt also operates a subsidiary ManattJones Global Strategies which offers a range of consulting services to public and private corporations with professionals in all of the firm's US offices plus outposts in Mexico City and São Paulo. James R. Jones, a former Congressman from Oklahoma and Ambassador to Mexico is a member of ManattJones. William T. Quicksilver is the firm's Chief Executive and Managing Partner.

History

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips was founded by Charles Taylor Manatt, who later became chairman of the Democratic National Committee and U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, and Thomas Phelps, a banking and finance attorney. Litigation and sports lawyer Alan Rothenberg joined them soon after; Rothenberg remained a named partner in the firm until he moved to Latham & Watkins in 1990.^[1] Former U.S. Senator John V. Tunney was a named partner from 1976 until early 1987.^[2]^[3] L. Lee Phillips, an entertainment lawyer, joined the firm in 1977 and became a named partner in 1985.^[4]^[5] Democratic activist Mickey Kantor joined the firm in 1976; he was a named partner from 1991^[6] until his departure in 1993 to become United States Trade Representative, and, later, Secretary of Commerce during the Clinton Administration.

Major Practice Areas

Notable Partners

In 1978 John B. Emerson joined the firm.

Notable Clients

In Advertising: AT&T Mobility, Expedia, Ticketmaster, Best Buy Co.
In Banking: East West Bancorp, U.S. Bank
In Energy: Sun Edison, Goodrich Corporation, Peabody Energy, Tesoro Petroleum Corporation
In Entertainment: Sony Pictures Entertainment, NBC Universal, Twentieth Century Fox Television, Atlantic Records
In Financial services: Pacific Capital Bank, US Bancorp
In Healthcare: Pfizer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Aetna
In Intellectual Property: Barbra Streisand, Estate of Bob Marley
In Real Estate: Lowe Enterprises, Pacific Gas & Electricity

Pro Bono Work

Manatt's pro bono program ranked No. 28 in The American Lawyer’s 2014 Pro Bono Report.^[7] The average pro bono hours per Manatt lawyer is 69.3 hours.

Holocaust Survivors Justice Network

In 2007, Manatt and Bet Tzedek launched a nationwide pro bono program, the Holocaust Survivors Justice Network, to help holocaust survivors.^[8] The Network has since assisted thousands of survivors and has grown to be the single largest coordinated pro bono effort in U.S. history. At the height of its activity in 2009, clinics operated in 31 cities across the country with the assistance of more than 100 corporate partners, providing free legal services to survivors seeking German “Ghetto Work” reparations. The Network has been recognized by the American Bar Association, the National Law Journal and the Pro Bono Institute.^[9]^[10]^[11]

Significant Matters

In 2012, Manatt lawyers and staff spent more than 1,300 hours assisting clients of the Inner City Law Center, the only provider of legal services on skid row in downtown Los Angeles. In June 2013, the center presented Manatt and partner Margaret Levy with the Humanitarian Award for their consistent support.^[12]
In late 2010, Manatt secured a landmark victory on behalf of a pro bono client who was victimized by policies and practices of her high school and its administrative district. The U.S. District Court ruled in favor of client Desiree R., then a 17-year-old high school senior, in a precedent-setting Americans with Disabilities Act case.^[13]
Manatt represented female high school athletes on a pro bono basis in a Title IX class action against Eastern San Diego County’s Sweetwater Union High School District. This was the first Title IX K-12-level case to ever go to trial, and it is the first case in which a class of high school female athletes has won a summary judgment motion under Title IX on the issue of failure to provide equal participation opportunities to girls.^[14]
Manatt secured a victory in an environmental battle to safeguard the rights and quality of life for residents of McCloud, California, against Nestlé Waters North America. In September 2009, Nestlé abandoned its plans to build a million-square-foot bottling plant that was opposed by environmentalists and McCloud residents.^[15] Manatt received the National Law Journal’s Pro Bono Award for the second consecutive year in 2010 for its work with McCloud.^[16]
Manatt was honored with the 2010 Award of Merit by the Legal Aid Association of California for its work in support of the passage of the AB 590 bill. The bill marked a milestone in California’s history, making it the first state in the nation to establish a right to counsel for low-income citizens in critical need.^[17]

Rankings & Recognitions

Manatt is an AmLaw 200 ranked firm, listed at number 112 on the 2014 list.^[18] The firm also appears in:

Chambers and Partners: 24 firm lawyers and 11 firm practices were ranked for 2014.^[19]
U.S. News: 7 Tier 1 national rankings and 29 Tier 1 metropolitan designations were received for 2014.
Best Lawyers in America: 62 Manatt attorneys were named to the guide for 2015.
The Legal 500: 7 Manatt practices are ranked in the 2014 edition.

Organizations promoting workplace diversity include:

Women in Law Empowerment Forum: Manatt has received its Gold Standard Certificate for four years.
American Lawyer: Manatt ranked 37 out of 223 surveyed U.S. law firms in The American Lawyer’s 2014 Diversity Scorecard.
Working Mother and Flex-Time Lawyers named Manatt to its 2014 list of the 50 best law firms for women in the country.^[20]

Manatt Health Solutions

Manatt Health Solutions (MHS) is an interdisciplinary policy and business advisory division of Manatt. MHS professionals provide counsel on healthcare coverage and access, healthcare information technology, healthcare financing and reimbursement, and healthcare restructuring.

MHS is composed of healthcare consultants, lawyers, project managers, technology strategists, analysts and policy advisors. They frequently publish by-lined articles and speak with media on major health industry issues.^[21]^[22]^[23]^[24] Clients include hospitals, payers, physician practices, state policymakers and agencies, foundations, associations, and technology companies.

In November 2011, the group added Joel Ario as a managing director. He is a former director of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Health Insurance Exchange.^[25] Other notable professionals include Deborah Bachrach, former director of New York State Medicaid and Deputy Commissioner of Health;^[26] Wendy Krasner, former Deputy Vice President for Policy at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America;^[27] and, Jonah P.B. Frohlich, California’s Former Deputy Secretary of Health Information Technology.^[28]

Recent Work

In early 2012, MHS prepared an Overview of Final Exchange Regulations, as well as a report on State Milestones for ACA Implementation, for the State Health Reform Assistance Network.^[29]^[30]
Maryland Health Benefit Exchange Board retained MHS to study the design and operations of Maryland’s Navigator program in November 2011.^[31]
New York State retained MHS in October 2011 to evaluate existing income verification resources and products that may be used to support real-time, automated verification of income in New York’s health insurance exchange.^[32]
MHS prepared a report for the California Healthcare Foundation in July 2011; the report outlined the programmatic and legal considerations for Accountable Care Organizations in the state.^[33]
In June 2011, MHS launched www.KidsWellCampaign.org, a website that monitors state and national healthcare reform implementation and opposition activities across the country. The Campaign was launched with funding from The Atlantic Philanthropies and seeks to ensure health insurance coverage for all children.^[34]
In March 2011, MHS released a report titled “Medicaid’s Role in the Health Benefits Exchange: A Road Map for States.” The report is a product of Maximizing Enrollment: Transforming State Health Coverage, which is a $15 million, four-year initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.^[35]

Manatt Digital Media

In May 2013, Manatt launched Manatt Digital Media to serve as a one-stop, full-service legal and business consulting branch for clients in the digital media, entertainment and advertising industries.^[36] Services include business consulting, partner negotiations, venture capital, strategic relationship-building and artist access, creative deal-making and mergers and acquisitions.^[37]

Manatt Digital Media is headed by T. Hale Boggs, a partner in Manatt’s capital markets and corporate/finance practices. It also receives key leadership from Manatt’s chair of Advertising, Marketing & Media practice, Linda Goldstein, who is nationally recognized in the industry.^[38]

Manatt Digital Media Ventures

The firm hired technology entrepreneur and digital media veteran Peter Csathy to run the investment operation, Manatt Digital Media Ventures, which aims to cultivate start-ups and growth companies in and around the digital media landscape.^[39]

Manatt Digital Media Ventures will make investments in early-stage companies, expecting to make 10 to 15 investments a year. The firm’s partners provide capital annually and also have the opportunity to personally invest alongside the fund. Since 2000, Manatt has made more than 90 investments in companies and funds focused on digital media, including Etsy, MaxPreps, Pinterest and DFJ Frontier.^[40]

Offices

Controversy

In 2010, it was revealed that the Government of Jamaica had undertaken the services of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in an attempt to re-establish diplomatic talks with the United States Government over the extradition request for alleged Jamaican drug lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke. Jamaican prime minister Bruce Golding and his ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) had refused to extradite Coke, a notable supporter of the party, and an alleged enforcer and strongman—indicted by federal prosecutors in Manhattan in August 2009 on drug and gun trafficking charges—by claiming that evidence cited by federal prosecutors in the U.S. for an August 2009 indictment relied on wiretaps illegally obtained under Jamaican law. The revelation sparked a wave of controversy in Jamaica, and a public commission of enquiry was set up in 2011 with the same name as the law firm.^[41]

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