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Best Lawyers Recognizes Manatt Attorneys as Nation’s Leading Lawyers for 2012

September 6, 2011 - The Best Lawyers in America recognized 56 Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, attorneys for inclusion in its list of America’s leading lawyers for 2012.  Best Lawyers compiles its list of outstanding attorneys through a rigorous peer-review process, which this year included more than 3.9 million detailed evaluations.

Representing a broad spectrum of 34 practice areas and expertise from five of the firm’s offices, Manatt’s lawyers on the prestigious list for 2012 include:

Los Angeles

Keith M. Allen-Niesen 
 Real Estate Law

Gordon M. Bava
 Banking and Finance Law
 Corporate Law
 Financial Services Regulation Law

Michael M. Berger
 Appellate Practice
 Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law

Charles J. Biederman
 Entertainment Law – Motion Pictures and Television
 Entertainment Law – Music

T. Hale Boggs III
 Banking and Finance Law
 Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law

Alan M. Brunswick
 Employment Law – Management
 Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures & Television
 Labor Law – Management
 Litigation - Labor & Employment

Edward C. Burg
 Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law

Craig J. de Recat
 Commercial Litigation
 Litigation – Environmental

Blase P. Dillingham
 Corporate Law

Gene R. Elerding
 Banking and Finance Law
 Financial Services Regulation Law

Robert M. Eller 
 Real Estate Law

T. J. Mick Grasmick
 Financial Services Regulation Law

Timi A. Hallem 
 Real Estate Law

Chad S. Hummel
 Commercial Litigation

Ivan L. Kallick
 Litigation – Bankruptcy

Gideon Kanner
 Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law

Barry S. Landsberg
 Healthcare Law

Margaret Levy
 Insurance Law

Craig A. Moyer
 Energy Law
 Environmental Law

Jill M. Pietrini
 Copyright Law

Gregory N. Pimstone 
 Healthcare Law

William T. Quicksilver
 Banking and Finance Law
 Financial Services Regulation Law

Harold P. Reichwald
 Banking and Finance Law
 Financial Services Regulation Law

James R. Schwartz
 Healthcare Law
 Non-Profit/Charities Law

Masood Sohaili
 Public Finance Law

George M. Soneff
 Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law

Lisa Specht
 Corporate Law

Charles E. Washburn, Jr.
 Banking and Finance Law
 Financial Services Regulation Law

New York

Marcia D. Alazraki
 Insurance Law

Robert D. Belfort
 Healthcare Law

William S. Bernstein
 Healthcare Law

Aydin S. Caginalp
 Entertainment Law – Motion Pictures and Television
 Entertainment Law - Music

Melinda J. Dutton
 Healthcare Law

Jeffrey S. Edelstein
 Advertising

Linda A. Goldstein
 Advertising
 Commercial Litigation

Thomas C. Morrison
 Advertising

Peter F. Olberg
 Corporate Law

L. Peter Parcher
 Entertainment Law – Motion Pictures and Television
 Entertainment Law - Music

Orange County

Steve Edwards
 Real Estate Law
  
Susan K. Hori
 Land Use & Zoning Law
 Real Estate Law

Ellen R. Marshall
 Banking and Finance Law

Thomas D. Phelps
 Banking and Finance Law
 Financial Services Regulation Law

Martin J. Thompson
 Antitrust Law
 Healthcare Law

Thomas J. Umberg
 Commercial Litigation

Dean J. Zipser
 Bet-the-Company Litigation
 Commercial Litigation
 Litigation - Banking & Finance
 Litigation - Intellectual Property
 Litigation - Real Estate

San Francisco

Jill S. Dodd
 Litigation - Trusts & Estates
 Non-Profit/Charities Law
 Tax Law
 Trusts and Estates

Daniel B. Higgins
 Healthcare Law

Alvin T. Levitt 
 Tax Law

Jeff C. Nguyen 
 Non-Profit/Charities Law

Jordan P. Rose 
 Tax Law

Washington, D.C.

Kerrie L. Campbell 
 Litigation - First Amendment

Christopher A. Cole
 Advertising

James R. Jones
 International Trade and Finance Law

Kenneth M. Kaufman
 Copyright Law
 Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures & Television
 Entertainment Law – Music
 Litigation - Intellectual Property

John L. Ray
 Corporate Law

Ivan J. Wasserman
 Advertising