Recognition of Phillips & Cohen's attorneys for their work on whistleblower cases
- "Plaintiffs' Hot List" of law firms selected for "exemplary work," track record and significant wins – National Law Journal, 2004, 2007, 2009 and 2010.
- Top 10 "Winning" Attorney for 2008 – National Law Journal.
- "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" – National Law Journal, all lists since 2000.
- "The nation's premier whistleblower attorney" – The Wall Street Journal and The National Law Journal.
- California "Attorney of the Year" for 2009 – California Lawyer magazine.
- "Considered ... to be the premier false claims [whistleblower] plaintiffs' firm." –The (San Francisco) Recorder.
- "Three months of research convinced me that Phillips & Cohen, with its breadth of experience in filing and pursuing whistleblower cases, was the top gun in the field" – John W. Schilling, author of Undercover: How I Went from Company Man to FBI Spy – and Exposed the Worst Healthcare Fraud in U.S. History and former client.
- The work of Phillips & Cohen with the Justice Department was a "collaboration of a group of impressive professionals acting skillfully in concert" – U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday.
- "These are the finest lawyers I've ever met that didn't have an agenda besides doing the right thing"— a whistleblower client, as reported in the book, Giant Killers: The Team and the Law That Help Whistleblowers Recover America's Stolen Billions.
- "Remarkable work rooting out corporate corruption" – Lifetime Achievement Award, ACLU of Southern California, 2006.
- Inclusion in Super Lawyers' listings of the Top 5 percent of lawyers by state, based on a survey of attorneys and other information.
- "The LawDragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America," based on a survey of attorneys.
- AV ratings – the highest ratings for legal ability and ethical standards – by Martindale-Hubbell legal directory.
