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