Seventy-six Manatt attorneys have been named to the 2021 edition of the Best Lawyers in America report, which recognizes the nation’s leading lawyers each year based on a national peer-review survey.

Eight attorneys were also named “Lawyer of the Year” in this year’s report, including Michael Berger, Edward Burg, George Kieffer, Craig Moyer and James Schwartz in Los Angeles; Ellen Marshall in Orange County; Jill Dodd in San Francisco; and David Herbst in Silicon Valley.

The 2021 list includes the following Manatt attorneys in the below categories:

Albany

James Lytle Government Relations Practice Health Care Law

Boston

Scott Lashway Privacy and Data Security Law

Chicago

Keith Anderson Health Care 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

Jeff Biederman Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television Entertainment Law - Music

Kathleen Brown Administrative / Regulatory Law

Jordan Bromley Entertainment Law - Music

Edward Burg Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law Litigation – Land Use and Zoning

Paul Carr-Rollitt Health Care Law

Lindsay Conner Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television

Victor De la Cruz Land Use and Zoning Law

Craig de Recat Commercial Litigation Litigation - Environmental

Blase Dillingham Corporate Law

Peter Duchesneau Litigation - Environmental

John Gatti Litigation - Intellectual Property

Gary Gilbert Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television Entertainment Law - Music

Timi Anyon Hallem Leisure and Hospitality Law Real Estate Law

Robert Jacobs Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television

Ivan Kallick Litigation - Bankruptcy

George Kieffer Administrative / Regulatory Law

Barry Landsberg Health Care Law Litigation - Health Care

Frank LaPallo Health Care Law

John LeBlanc Litigation - Health Care

John Libby Criminal Defense: White-Collar

Laurence Marks Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television

Donald Meaders Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law Tax Law

David Moran Commercial Litigation

Craig Moyer Energy Law Environmental Law

Tom Muller Real Estate Law

Lee Phillips Entertainment Law - Music

Gregory Pimstone Health Care Law

Robert Platt Commercial Litigation

Bill Quicksilver Banking and Finance Law Financial Services Regulation Law

Anita Famili Real Estate Law

James Schwartz Health Care Law Nonprofit / Charities Law

Brad Seiling Commercial Litigation

Benjamin Shatz Appellate Practice

George Soneff Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law

Ronald Turovsky Administrative / Regulatory Law 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

New York

Deborah Bachrach Health Care Law

Robert Belfort Health Care Law

Bill Bernstein Health Care Law

Aydin Caginalp Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television Entertainment Law - Music

Melinda Dutton Health Care Law

Jeffrey Edelstein Advertising Law

Peter Olberg Corporate Law 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

Orange County

Steve Edwards Real Estate Law

Susan Hori Land Use and Zoning Law Real Estate Law

Kenneth Julian Criminal Defense: White-Collar

Ellen Marshall Banking and Finance Law International Mergers and Acquisitions

Thomas Phelps Banking and Finance Law Financial Services Regulation Law

Silicon Valley

David Herbst Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law

Michael Polentz Real Estate Law

San Francisco

Jill Dodd Litigation - Trusts and Estates Nonprofit / Charities Law Tax Law Trusts and Estates

James Eastman Real Estate Law

Clayton Gantz Real Estate Law

David Huard Energy Law

Barry Lee Commercial Litigation Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants

Jeff Nguyen Nonprofit / Charities Law

Marv Pearlstein Real Estate Law

Alvin Levitt Tax Law

Lenard Weiss Utilities Law 

Washington, D.C.

Robert Fabrikant Health Care Law

Deborah Kelly Employment Law - Management Litigation - Labor and Employment

Cindy Mann Health Care Law

John Ray Corporate Law

In addition to the above attorneys, 11 Manatt professionals were recognized on Best Lawyer’s inaugural “Ones to Watch” list. Learn more about these honorees here.