Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP represents a broad array of clients across key industry sectors, including transportation, healthcare, financial services, and retail. Los Angeles-based practitioner Naeun Rim heads up the team. Also in Los Angeles is seasoned trial lawyer Ronald Turovsky, whose practice emphasizes trade secrets, unfair competition, ERISA, and real estate cases. Barry Lee has extensive experience in both jury and bench trials and splits his time between the firm’s San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.
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Key clients
- League of Women Voters of San Luis Obispo County
- Fremont Bank
- The Ark Watch Foundation
- The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
- Tufts University School of Medicine
- Collegium
- Margaret Sheehan and Susan Sheehan
- Harvard University
- Equity Resource Investments
- Massachusetts Mutual Insurance Company
- Argo Group
Work highlights
- Represented Metropolitan Water District of Southern California in connection with a complaint for determination of invalidity filed by San Diego County Water Authority over alleged violation of cost-of-service requirements in regards to the rates and charges adopted on April 10, 2018.
- Represented the League of Women Voters of San Luis Obispo County as intervenor in a lawsuit that successfully challenged the County Board of Supervisors’ adoption of a supervisorial district map that violated California’s FAIR MAPS Act and the California Constitution.
- Represented the President and Fellows of Harvard College in connection with several putative class actions brought by family members of deceased individuals who had donated their remains to the Harvard Medical School Anatomical Gift Program and whose remains were subsequently allegedly stolen by a rogue morgue employee and sold on the black market.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Naeun Rim