87 Manatt Attorneys Named to 2025 Best Lawyers Guide
Eighty-seven Manatt attorneys have been named to the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the nation’s leading lawyers each year based on a nationwide peer-review survey.
In addition to the main list, six attorneys were named Lawyers of the Year by Best Lawyers: James Walsh (Government Relations Practice) in Albany; Linda Moroney (Nonprofit / Charities Law) in Chicago; and Michael Berger (Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law; Litigation - Land Use and Zoning), Kathleen Brown (Administrative / Regulatory Law), Barry Landsberg (Litigation - Health Care) and Charles Washburn (Financial Services Regulation Law) in Los Angeles.
Twenty Manatt attorneys were also named to the Best Lawyers in America’s 2025 “Ones to Watch” list. See that list here.
Albany
Meghan McNamara Administrative / Regulatory Law Government Relations Practice Health Care Law
James Walsh Government Relations Practice (Lawyer of the Year) Administrative / Regulatory Law Government Contracts
Boston
Joan Lukey Appellate Practice Bet-the-Company Litigation Commercial Litigation Employment Law - Individuals Litigation - First Amendment Litigation - Labor and Employment Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Marty Murphy Bet-the-Company Litigation Criminal Defense: General Practice Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Jerry Tichner Health Care Law
Chicago
Keith Anderson Health Care Law
Linda Moroney Nonprofit / Charities Law (Lawyer of the Year) Health Care Law
Megan Thibert-Ind Health Care Law
Costa Mesa
Steve Edwards Real Estate Law
Susan Hori Land Use and Zoning Law Real Estate Law
Kenneth Julian Commercial Litigation Corporate Compliance Law Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Jennifer Lynch Land Use and Zoning Law
Thomas Phelps Banking and Finance Law Financial Services Regulation Law
Los Angeles
Keith Allen-Niesen Real Estate Law
W. Joseph Anderson Copyright Law
Gordon Bava Banking and Finance Law Corporate Law Financial Services Regulation Law Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Michael Berger Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law (Lawyer of the Year) Litigation - Land Use and Zoning (Lawyer of the Year) Appellate Practice Litigation - Real Estate
Jesse Brody Advertising Law
Jordan Bromley Entertainment Law – Music
Kathleen Brown Administrative / Regulatory Law (Lawyer of the Year)
Edward Burg Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law Litigation - Land Use and Zoning Real Estate Law
Paul Carr-Rollitt Health Care Law
Sirena Castillo Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Steven Chiu Insurance Law
Eric Custer Entertainment Law – Music
Victor De la Cruz Land Use and Zoning Law
Craig de Recat Commercial Litigation Environmental Law Litigation – Environmental
Peter Duchesneau Environmental Law Litigation – Environmental
Robert Duran Tax Law
John Fogarty Commercial Litigation
Gary Gilbert Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television Entertainment Law - Music
Timi Hallem Land Use and Zoning Law Leisure and Hospitality Law Real Estate Law
Esra Hudson Commercial Litigation
Ivan Kallick Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law Litigation – Bankruptcy
George Kieffer Administrative / Regulatory Law Government Relations Practice
Barry Landsberg Litigation - Health Care (Lawyer of the Year) Appellate Practice Health Care Law
John LeBlanc Health Care Law Litigation - Health Care
Laurence Marks Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television
Joanna McCallum Appellate Practice
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
Robert Platt Commercial Litigation
William Quicksilver Banking and Finance Law Securities / Capital Markets Law
Christine Reilly Advertising Law
Naeun Rim Commercial Litigation
Craig Rutenberg Health Care 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 Financial Services Regulation Law (Lawyer of the Year) Banking and Finance 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
Aydin Caginalp Entertainment Law - Music
Melinda Dutton Health Care Law
Jeffrey Edelstein Advertising Law
Ted Hunter Real Estate Law
Anne Karl Health Care Law
Andrew Morrison Commercial Litigation
Peter Olberg Health Care Law
Helen Pfister Health Care Law
Randi Seigel Health Care Law
Jacqueline Wolff Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Po Yi Advertising Law Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television
Silicon Valley
David Herbst Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law Tax Law
Michael Polentz Real Estate Law
San Diego
Randy Grossman Commercial Litigation Criminal Defense: White-Collar
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 Land Use and Zoning Law Real Estate Law
Joseph Laska Litigation – ERISA
Barry Lee Commercial Litigation Mass Tort Litigaiton / 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
Washington, D.C.
Edo Banach Health Care Law
John Dalton Real Estate Law
Deborah Kelly Employment Law - Management Litigation - Labor and Employment
Andrew Zimmitti Criminal Defense: White-Collar