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