Eighty-seven Manatt attorneys have been named to the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the nation’s leading lawyers each year based on a nationwide peer-review survey.
In addition to the main list, six attorneys were named Lawyers of the Year by Best Lawyers: James Walsh (Government Relations Practice) in Albany; Linda Moroney (Nonprofit / Charities Law) in Chicago; and Michael Berger (Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law; Litigation - Land Use and Zoning), Kathleen Brown (Administrative / Regulatory Law), Barry Landsberg (Litigation - Health Care) and Charles Washburn (Financial Services Regulation Law) in Los Angeles.
Twenty Manatt attorneys were also named to the Best Lawyers in America’s 2025 “Ones to Watch” list. See that list here.
Albany
Meghan McNamara
Administrative / Regulatory Law
Government Relations Practice
Health Care Law
James Walsh
Government Relations Practice (Lawyer of the Year)
Administrative / Regulatory Law
Government Contracts
Boston
Joan Lukey
Appellate Practice
Bet-the-Company Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Employment Law - Individuals
Litigation - First Amendment
Litigation - Labor and Employment
Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Marty Murphy
Bet-the-Company Litigation
Criminal Defense: General Practice
Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Jerry Tichner
Health Care Law
Chicago
Keith Anderson
Health Care Law
Linda Moroney
Nonprofit / Charities Law (Lawyer of the Year)
Health Care Law
Megan Thibert-Ind
Health Care Law
Costa Mesa
Steve Edwards
Real Estate Law
Susan Hori
Land Use and Zoning Law
Real Estate Law
Kenneth Julian
Commercial Litigation
Corporate Compliance Law
Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Jennifer Lynch
Land Use and Zoning Law
Thomas Phelps
Banking and Finance Law
Financial Services Regulation Law
Los Angeles
Keith Allen-Niesen
Real Estate Law
W. Joseph Anderson
Copyright Law
Gordon Bava
Banking and Finance Law
Corporate Law
Financial Services Regulation Law
Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Michael Berger
Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law (Lawyer of the Year)
Litigation - Land Use and Zoning (Lawyer of the Year)
Appellate Practice
Litigation - Real Estate
Jesse Brody
Advertising Law
Jordan Bromley
Entertainment Law – Music
Kathleen Brown
Administrative / Regulatory Law (Lawyer of the Year)
Edward Burg
Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
Litigation - Land Use and Zoning
Real Estate Law
Paul Carr-Rollitt
Health Care Law
Sirena Castillo
Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Steven Chiu
Insurance Law
Eric Custer
Entertainment Law – Music
Victor De la Cruz
Land Use and Zoning Law
Craig de Recat
Commercial Litigation
Environmental Law
Litigation – Environmental
Peter Duchesneau
Environmental Law
Litigation – Environmental
Robert Duran
Tax Law
John Fogarty
Commercial Litigation
Gary Gilbert
Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television
Entertainment Law - Music
Timi Hallem
Land Use and Zoning Law
Leisure and Hospitality Law
Real Estate Law
Esra Hudson
Commercial Litigation
Ivan Kallick
Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Litigation – Bankruptcy
George Kieffer
Administrative / Regulatory Law
Government Relations Practice
Barry Landsberg
Litigation - Health Care (Lawyer of the Year)
Appellate Practice
Health Care Law
John LeBlanc
Health Care Law
Litigation - Health Care
Laurence Marks
Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television
Joanna McCallum
Appellate Practice
Craig Moyer
Energy Law
Environmental Law
Natural Resources Law
Tom Muller
Real Estate Law
Lee Phillips
Entertainment Law – Music
Gregory Pimstone
Appellate Practice
Health Care Law
Litigation - Health Care
Robert Platt
Commercial Litigation
William Quicksilver
Banking and Finance Law
Securities / Capital Markets Law
Christine Reilly
Advertising Law
Naeun Rim
Commercial Litigation
Craig Rutenberg
Health Care Law
Brad Seiling
Commercial Litigation
Benjamin Shatz
Appellate Practice
George Soneff
Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
Utilities Law
Ronald Turovsky
Administrative / Regulatory Law
Appellate Practice
Commercial Litigation
Charles Washburn
Financial Services Regulation Law (Lawyer of the Year)
Banking and Finance Law
Charles Weir
Health Care Law
Sophia Yen
Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television
Bruce Zisser
Litigation - Intellectual Property
New York
Deborah Bachrach
Health Care Law
Robert Belfort
Health Care Law
Bill Bernstein
Health Care Law
Aydin Caginalp
Entertainment Law - Music
Melinda Dutton
Health Care Law
Jeffrey Edelstein
Advertising Law
Ted Hunter
Real Estate Law
Anne Karl
Health Care Law
Andrew Morrison
Commercial Litigation
Peter Olberg
Health Care Law
Helen Pfister
Health Care Law
Randi Seigel
Health Care Law
Jacqueline Wolff
Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Po Yi
Advertising Law
Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television
Silicon Valley
David Herbst
Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Tax Law
Michael Polentz
Real Estate Law
San Diego
Randy Grossman
Commercial Litigation
Criminal Defense: White-Collar
San Francisco
Lynn Cadwalader
Leisure and Hospitality Law
Real Estate Law
Jill Dodd
Litigation - Trusts and Estates
Nonprofit / Charities Law
Tax Law
Trusts and Estates
Clayton Gantz
Land Use and Zoning Law
Real Estate Law
Joseph Laska
Litigation – ERISA
Barry Lee
Commercial Litigation
Mass Tort Litigaiton / Class Actions – Defendants
Alvin Levitt
Tax Law
Marv Pearlstein
Real Estate Law
David Smith
Land Use and Zoning Law
Sigrid Waggener
Land Use and Zoning Law
Christopher Wanger
Commercial Litigation
Washington, D.C.
Edo Banach
Health Care Law
John Dalton
Real Estate Law
Deborah Kelly
Employment Law - Management
Litigation - Labor and Employment
Andrew Zimmitti
Criminal Defense: White-Collar