About Manatt
Manatt is a multidisciplinary, integrated national professional services firm known for quality and an extraordinary commitment to clients. We are keenly focused on specific industry sectors, providing legal and consulting capabilities at the very highest levels to achieve our clients’ business objectives.
Our groundbreaking approach—bringing together legal services, advocacy and business strategy—differentiates us from our competitors and positions us to provide a unique and compelling value proposition. We strive to be essential to our clients.
From our roots in banking, entertainment and government, we work with clients from industries as diverse as health care, financial services, media, technology, retail and consumer products, real estate, and energy. Our practice mix and deep understanding of the industries that drive the U.S. and global economies benefit clients as we resolve complex and potentially enterprise-threatening disputes.
Our Offices
Manatt gives women the opportunities they need to succeed.
It’s one thing to bring more women into the legal profession. It’s quite another to give them the opportunities they need to succeed in an intensely competitive marketplace.
That’s what we set out to do when we launched the Manatt Women’s Initiative in 2007. We saw then that there were compelling business reasons to move our women up the career ladder as quickly as their talents would allow. Since then, much has been accomplished, yet there is plenty left to do.
Professional development
From mentoring to coaching, from practice tips to sponsored events with clients, professional development is year-round at Manatt. Each office conducts a wide variety of programs aimed at helping women overcome the obstacles—both professional and personal—that have too often held them back. In addition, we schedule all manner of social activities to encourage less formal—but no less important—mentoring and co-worker relationships. All these programs are specifically geared towards creating and nurturing business and career advancement opportunities for our women professionals.
Innovative Initiatives for Impactful Change
Empowering Communities, Enabling Entrepreneurs, Enhancing Health
Manatt Celebrates 60th Anniversary
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP is proud to celebrate its 60th anniversary. Since the Firm's founding in Van Nuys, California, in 1965, we have exceedingly expanded into a variety of practice areas and have grown to become a legal and consulting powerhouse with deep ties across the country.
Manatt Recognized on Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2025 Corporate Equality Index
Manatt is proud to once again be recognized on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index.
Manatt Supports Kedren Community Health Center with First-of-its-Kind Children’s Mental Health Care Facility in Los Angeles
Manatt is proud to support Kedren Health (Kedren) in the negotiations and development of a landmark mental health care facility in Los Angeles. This innovative resource for children will offer a wide range of mental health services to children and their families under one roof, including urgent care, psychiatric inpatient care, outpatient services, transitional housing units and primary care as a federally qualified health center.
The Manatt multidisciplinary team is led by Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Partner John Heber, who serves as Kedren’s outside general counsel, Government and Regulatory Partner Randy Keen, Government and Regulatory National Advisor Wendy Greuel, Employment and Labor Leader and Partner Esra Hudson, and Manatt Health Managing Director Megan Ingraham. The team is also supported by Antoinette Bedros and Jake Itzkowitz. The Manatt team partnered closely with Kedren on the project, playing key roles including navigating communications and approvals with City officials, negotiating agreements surrounding land transfers and liaising with contractors ahead of the project’s construction.
A major milestone was achieved in the project's development when Manatt helped Kedren successfully acquire the land they had long occupied under a lease from the City of Los Angeles. The team’s efforts culminated in the Los Angeles City Council's official approval of the land transfer in October 2024, marking a significant step forward for the project and paving the way for the realization of this state-of-the-art health care facility for children.
A groundbreaking ceremony will be held on April 4, 2025, where the land will be publicly recognized by city officials to signal the start of the project’s construction.
