Patricia Phillips
Work in Phillips Jessner LLP
Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 55 years of experience
Litigation, Mediation, Family Law, Business Law, Employment
Two California Plaza, 350 South Grand Avenue, Suite 3550, Los Angeles, CA 91071
About Patricia Phillips
Practice Areas
- Litigation
- Mediation
- Family Law
- Business Law
- Employment
Education
- Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California, 1967J.D.
- University of California at Santa Barbara, 1956B.A.
Classes and Seminars
- Lecturer, Continuing Education of the Bar and Rutter Group, 1980 - 1985
- Trial Advocacy Instructor, Attorney General's Advocacy Institute
- Lecturer, Numerous Courses, Department of Justice's Office of Legal Education
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- California, 1968
Other Affiliations
- The State Bar of California (Former Vice President, Board of Governors)
- The State Bar of California (Former Member, Board of Governors)
- The State Bar of California (Former Chair, Commission on the Future of the Legal Profession)
- The State Bar of California (Former Chair, State Bar Committee of Bar Examiners)
- The State Bar of California (Former Member, State Bar Committee of Bar Examiners)
- The State Bar of California, Litigation, Family Law Sections
- The State Bar of California (Former Chair, Delay Reduction Consortium)
- Los Angeles County Bar Association (Former President (First Woman President))
- Los Angeles County Bar Association (Precedent Offices)
- Los Angeles County Bar Association (Board of Trustees)
- Los Angeles County Bar Association (Dispute Resolution Development Committee)
- Los Angeles County Bar Association, 1988 - 1989 (Blue Ribbon Committee on the Superior Court)
- Los Angeles County Bar Association (Former Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Court Unification)
- Los Angeles County Bar Association (Former Co-Chair, Know Your Judge Committee)
- Los Angeles County Bar Association (Former Chair, 100th and 125th Anniversary Committees)
- United States District Court - Central District, CA, 2001 - 2004 (Member, Lawyers Disciplinary Committee)
- Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, 1990 - 1993 (Representative)
- Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, 1998 - 2000 (Senior Lawyer's Advisory Committee)
- Judicial Council, 1990 - 1994 (Member)
- Judicial Council, 1991 - 1994 (Executive Committee)
- Judicial Council, 1991 - 1993 (Ad Hoc Committee on Private Judging)
- Judicial Council, 1990 - 1991 (Committee on Court Profiles)
- Judicial Council, 1990 - 1991 (Family Law Advisory Committee)
- Los Angeles County Commission on Judicial Procedures, 1991 - 1996
- Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, 1988 - 1990 (Chair, Board of Visitors)
- Loyola Law School of Los Angeles (Member)
- Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law (Advisory Committee)
- Maternal and Child Health Access, Inc.
- Children's Law Center - Los Angeles County
- American Bar Association (Committee on Research on the Future of the Legal Profession)
- American Bar Association (Task Force on Outreach to the Public)
- American Bar Association (Committee on Communications)
- American Bar Association, Litigation, General Practice, Family Law, Senior Lawyers Sections
- American Bar Association (National Conference of Bar Presidents)
- American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (Legislative Committee)
- American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (Bench-Bar Committee)
- Women Lawyers of Los Angeles, 1969 - Present
- California Women Lawyers Association, 1974 - Present (Founding Member)
- Chancery Club (First Woman President)
- Association of Business Trial Lawyers, 1975 - Present
- Black Women Lawyers, 1981 - Present
- Downtown Women Partners, 1983 - Present
- Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association, 1982 - Present
- University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990 - 1994 (Foundation Board of Trustees)
- Professional Association of Judicial Mediators & Arbitrators, 1996 - Present
- Senior Matrimonial Network, 1998 - Present
- Dalkon Shield Cases (Arbitrator)
- Los Angeles Daily Journal (Columnist)
- Los Angeles County Superior Court (Mediator - Family Law)
- Center for International Commercial Arbitration (Director)
- Los Angeles County Superior Court (Court Coordination Committee)
- Los Angeles County Superior Court (A.B. 3820 Committee)
- Los Angeles County Superior Court (Member, Ad Hoc Committee to Develop an Informal Complaint Policy)
- The Trusteeship
- Commission on the Future of Loyola Marymount University Task Force
- City Club on Bunker Hill, 1999 - 2001 (Chair, Board of Governors)
- City Club on Bunker Hill (Member of Board)
Past Positions
- Morrison & Foerster LLP, Senior Counsel
- Hufstedler & Kaus (formerly Beardsley, Hufstedler & Kemble), Partner, 1969 - March 17, 1995
- Hon. Robert Feinerman, Los Angeles Superior Court, Law Clerk, 1968
Fraternities and Sororities
- Phi Alpha Delta
Office Info
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