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10.17.11

Learning Rights Law Center Honors Manatt for Pro Bono Victory

Manatt received the Breaking Education Barriers Award from the Learning Rights Law Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to education equity. CBS-Los Angeles reporter Randy Paige presented Manatt with the award at the Center’s Cause for Celebration event, held October 15 in Marina del ...


10.10.11

LABJ Recognizes Manatt Partners as Top M&A Attorneys

Manatt partners Gordon M. Bava and David M. Grinberg have been recognized as two of the city’s Top 40 M&A Lawyers in the October 10 Los Angeles Business Journal’s “Who’s Who in L.A. Law” report. For 2011, the annual report focused exclusively on ...


10.10.11

NLJ Features Julian’s Successful Defense of Transplant Doc

The National Law Journal interviewed Manatt litigation partner Kenneth Julian for his successful representation of Dr. Richard Lopez, Jr., who was recently acquitted of charges he engaged in a cover-up following the misallocation of an organ while he served as head of a hospital’s liver ...


10.07.11

Best Lawyers Recognizes Manatt Partners as “Lawyers of the Year”

The Best Lawyers in America recognized Manatt partners Thomas D. Phelps, Michael M. Berger, Daniel B. Higgins, and L. Peter Parcher for inclusion in its “Lawyers of the Year” list. The organization designated only one attorney from their previously announced Best Lawyers list in each ...


10.01.11

Julian Secures Acquittal of Liver Transplant Doc

The Los Angeles Times covered the acquittal of Manatt client Dr. Richard R. Lopez Jr., who once ran the liver transplant program at St. Vincent Medical Center, of charges that he led a conspiracy to cover up the misallocation of an organ in 2003. At issue was what role Lopez may have played in an ...


09.27.11

Turovsky Recognized as One of CA's Top 100

Manatt’s Ronald B. Turovsky, chair of the firm's Government Litigation and Administrative Law practice, has been named by the Daily Journal as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California for 2011. Published in the San Francisco and Los Angeles editions, the prestigious list recognizes 100 ...


09.27.11

California Legislature Remembers Charles T. Manatt

In honor of Chuck Manatt's passing in July 2011, the California State Senate adjourned in memory of Ambassador Manatt on August 15.Manatt's Tom McMorrow, chair of the firm's California Policy Practice Group and administrative partner of the Sacramento office, was asked to join the state ...


09.26.11

Manatt Supports 2011 Diversity Scholarships Through California Bar Foundation

Manatt partnered with the California Bar Foundation on the organization’s 2011 Diversity Scholarship Program, which awards more than $150,000 in scholarships to law students who come from communities underrepresented in the legal profession. The Foundation, a nonprofit committed to building a ...


09.14.11

Manatt Named a 2011 Best Law Firm for Women

Manatt has been named among the 50 Best Law Firms for Women for 2011. The list, determined by the National Association for Female Executives and Flex-Time Lawyers, recognizes firms who are “encouraging the retention and promotion of women, in addition to creating conducive work environments ...


09.06.11

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

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 ...