Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP elevated Benjamin Shatz to partner yesterday. He is a part of the firms appellate practice group in their Los Angeles office. Shatz is the Chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Appellate Court Committee and Vice Chair of the California State Bar Committee on Appellate Courts. He was named “Lawyer of the Year (Private Sector) by the Constitutional Rights Foundation and served as a law clerk Robert J. Johnston, United States Magistrate Judge in the district o Nevada.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips is a Los Angeles based general practice firm founded in 1965. The firm has 380 attorneys and offices located in San Francisco, New York City, Washington, D.C., Orange County, Palo Alto, Sacramento and Albany in addition to Los Angeles.