82 Manatt Attorneys Named to 2024 Best Lawyers Guide

Eighty-two Manatt attorneys have been named to the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the nation’s leading lawyers each year based on a nationwide peer-review survey. 

Five attorneys were also named Lawyers of the Year by Best Lawyers: Marty Murphy (Criminal Defense: White-Collar) in Boston; Edward Burg (Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law), Timi Anyon Hallem (Leisure and Hospitality Law) and George Kieffer (Administrative / Regulatory Law) in Los Angeles; and Susan Hori (Land Use and Zoning Law) in Orange County. 

Albany 

James Walsh 
Government Relations Practice 
 
Boston 
 
Scott Lashway 
Commercial Litigation 
Privacy and Data Security Law 
 
Christopher Lisy 
Privacy and Data Security Law 
 
Marty Murphy 
Bet-the-Company Litigation 
Criminal Defense: General Practice 
Criminal Defense: White-Collar (Lawyer of the Year) 
 
Chicago 
 
Keith Anderson 
Health Care Law 
 
Linda Moroney 
Health Care Law 
Nonprofit / Charities Law 
 
Megan Thibert-Ind 
Health Care Law 
 
Costa Mesa 
 
Steve Edwards 
Real Estate Law 
 
Susan Hori 
Land Use and Zoning Law (Lawyer of the Year) 
Real Estate Law 
 
Kenneth Julian 
Corporate Compliance Law 
Criminal Defense: White-Collar 
 
Ellen Marshall 
Banking and Finance Law 
International Mergers and Acquisitions 
 
Thomas Phelps 
Banking and Finance Law 
Financial Services Regulation Law 
 
Los Angeles 
 
Keith Allen-Niesen 
Real Estate Law 
 
Gordon Bava 
Banking and Finance Law 
Corporate Law 
Financial Services Regulation Law 
Mergers and Acquisitions Law 
 
Michael Berger 
Appellate Practice 
Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law 
Litigation - Land Use and Zoning 
Litigation - Real Estate 
 
Katherine Blair 
Securities / Capital Markets Law 
 
Jordan Bromley 
Entertainment Law - Music 
 
Kathleen Brown 
Administrative / Regulatory Law 
 
Edward Burg 
Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law (Lawyer of the Year) 
Litigation - Land Use and Zoning 
Real Estate Law 
 
Paul Carr-Rollitt 
Health Care Law 
 
Sirena Castillo 
Criminal Defense: White-Collar 
 
Steve Chiu 
Insurance Law 
 
Craig de Recat 
Commercial Litigation 
Litigation - Environmental 
 
Peter Duchesneau 
Environmental Law 
Litigation - Environmental 
 
Robert Duran 
Tax Law 
 
John Fogarty 
Commercial Litigation 
 
Gary L. Gilbert 
Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television 
Entertainment Law - Music 
 
Timi Anyon Hallem 
Land Use and Zoning Law 
Leisure and Hospitality Law (Lawyer of the Year) 
Real Estate Law 
 
Esra Hudson 
Commercial Litigation 
 
Robert Jacobs 
Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television 
 
Ivan Kallick 
Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law 
Litigation - Bankruptcy 
 
George Kieffer 
Administrative / Regulatory Law (Lawyer of the Year) 
 
Barry Landsberg 
Appellate Practice 
Health Care Law 
Litigation - Health Care 
 
John LeBlanc 
Health Care Law 
Litigation - Health Care 
 
John Libby 
Criminal Defense: White-Collar 
 
Laurence Marks 
Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television 
 
Joanna McCallum 
Appellate Practice 
 
Donald Meaders 
Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law 
Tax Law 
 
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 
 
William Quicksilver 
Banking and Finance Law 
Securities / Capital Markets Law 
 
Christine Reilly 
Advertising Law 
 
Naeun Rim 
Commercial Litigation 
 
James Schwartz 
Health Care Law 
Nonprofit / Charities 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 
Banking and Finance Law 
Financial Services Regulation 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 
 
Melinda Dutton 
Health Care Law 
 
Jeffrey Edelstein 
Advertising Law 
 
Ted Hunter 
Real Estate Law 
 
Anne O’Hagen Karl 
Health Care Law 
 
Andrew Morrison 
Commercial Litigation 
 
Peter Olberg 
Health Care Law 
 
Helen Pfister 
Health Care Law 
 
Randi Seigel 
Health Care Law 
 
Monika Tashman 
Entertainment Law - Music 
 
Jacqueline Wolff 
Criminal Defense: White-Collar 
 
Po Yi 
Advertising Law 
Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television 
 
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 
Real Estate Law 
 
Barry Lee 
Commercial Litigation 
Mass Tort Litigation / 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 
 
Silicon Valley 
 
David Herbst 
Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law 
Tax Law 
 
Michael Polentz 
Real Estate Law 
 
Washington, DC 
 
Deborah Kelly 
Litigation - Labor and Employment 
 
Cindy Mann 
Health Care Law 
 
Andrew Zimmitti 
Criminal Defense: White-Collar 
 

Thirteen Manatt attorneys were also named to the Best Lawyers in America’s 2024 “Ones to Watch” list. See that list here

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