Phillips & Cohen attorneys have decades of experience working with whistleblowers and winning successful outcomes.
The Wall Street Journal and the National Law Journal have called founding partner John R. Phillips “the nation’s premier whistleblower attorney.” Partner Eric R. Havian was named a Top 10 “Winning Attorney” for 2008 by the National Law Journal. Claire M. Sylvia, another partner, is the author of The False Claims Act: Fraud Against the Government (West, 2004), a leading treatise on the False Claims Act and its qui tam (whistleblower) provisions.
Many Phillips & Cohen's attorneys come from positions of public service and public interest. Our staff includes a former U.S. Attorney, a former assistant U.S. Attorney, a former Senate committee counsel, a former Department of Justice appeals court attorney and a former co-director of a California public interest group that successfully fought oil companies, defense contractors and the city of Los Angeles. Our roster also includes experienced litigators recruited from the nation's top law firms.
Phillips & Cohen attorneys have received the highest ratings from Martindale-Hubbell and Lawdragon. Our lawyers also have been included in Superlawyers, which lists the top 5 percent of attorneys in each state, and in top lawyers lists in local publications, such as Washingtonian magazine.
- John R. Phillips
- Mary Louise Cohen
- Eric R. Havian
- Erika A. Kelton
- Peter Wilson Chatfield
- Mary A. Inman
- Colette G. Matzzie
- Claire M. Sylvia
- Stephen S. Hasegawa
- Timothy P. McCormack
- Jessica T. Moore
- Matthew Smith
- Harry Litman
- Larry Zoglin
- Edward H. Arens
- Julie Figueira
- Molly Beth Knobler
- Erin C. Krimbill
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