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Thomas D. Phelps

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Co-Founder Emeritus

Manatt Financial Services
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  • tphelps@manatt.com
  • Phone: 714.371.2520
  • Phone: 310.312.4141
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  • Orange County
  • Los Angeles
Bar Admissions
  • Formerly admitted to practice in California

Education
  • George Washington University Law School, J.D., 1963
    Board of Editors, George Washington Law Review

    Iowa State University, B.S., 1959

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  • Corporate and Finance
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  • Manatt Financial Services

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Profile

Tom Phelps, co-founder of the firm and now retired from the practice of law, boasted a long and distinguished career serving banking, thrift and nonbank financial institutions. During his 58+ year career, he worked with scores of financial institutions throughout the country.

He has been active in banking industry groups, including the California Bankers Association, where he previously served on the State Government Relations Committee and the Federal Government Relations Committee.

Tom has been a featured speaker at numerous seminars on law and banking and is frequently quoted in banking industry publications.

Honors & Awards

Honors & Awards

Recipient of the California Bankers Association’s 2014 Inaugural Chairman’s Award

Recipient of the 2020 Power-Packet Philanthropy Award, Orange County Business Council

Recipient of the 2020 Orange County Business Council Honoring Thomas D. Phelps Extraordinary Leadership Award

Selected by peers to be listed in The Best Lawyers in America for over twenty years, and Orange County Banking and Finance “Lawyer of the Year” for 2012

Recipient of the Anti-Defamation League’s 2011 Marcus Kaufman Jurisprudence Award

Selected by peers to be listed as a “Southern California Super Lawyer” in the 2007–2010 annual editions of the Southern California Super Lawyers magazine

Recipient of the California Bankers Association’s 1999 Robert Frandzel Award

Recipient of the City of Hope’s Professions and Finance Associates’ 1992 Award of Hope

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Memberships

Formerly admitted to practice in California

Formerly admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court

Former member of OC Bar Foundation

Past Chairman and Board Member, Orange County Business Council; Co-Chair of the Chairman’s CEO Leadership Caucus; and Chairman of annual Economic Forecast Conference

Former member of the California and Orange County Bar Associations

Chairman, Board of Advisors, Chapman University Fowler School of Law

Past President of the Board of Trustees, South Coast Repertory Theater

Former member, Iowa State University Foundation Board of Governors

Former member, Board of Advisors, U.S. Bank

Member, Dean’s Advisory Board, California State University, Fullerton, College of Business and Economics

Past Director, Constitutional Rights Foundation

Past Congregation President, Mt. of Olives Lutheran Church

Board Member, Children’s Hospital of Orange County (present)

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    Seventy-seven Manatt attorneys have been named to the 2022 edition of Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the nation’s leading lawyers ...

  • 08.20.20

    Best Lawyers in America Names 76 Manatt Attorneys to 2021 List

    Seventy-six Manatt attorneys have been named to the 2021 edition of the Best Lawyers in America report, which recognizes the nation’s leading...

  • 08.15.19

    Best Lawyers in America Names 64 Manatt Attorneys to 2020 List

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