Paul N. Phillips

Biography:

Paul N. Philips, Esq., Of Counsel, who is located in Southern California, is a well-known civil litigator and transactional business and real estate attorney. Mr. Philips’ reputation is built on his proven complex litigation skills and his ability to provide corporate and other business clients with informed legal solutions for formations, purchases and sales, and entity maintenance.

Mr. Philips has had consistent success handling complex litigation actions against large and powerful corporate defendants. For example, Mr. Philips has faced Glaxo Wellcome, General Motors, Ford Motor Company, MGM, Sumitomo Chemical Company, Dow Chemical, Specialized Bicycles, and various insurance carriers and governmental entities.

Mr. Philips has been involved in several newsworthy cases. For example, he was selected to be a member of the litigation team that successfully represented residents of Hinkley, California against Pacific Gas & Electric. As a result, Mr. Philips’ clients received more than $300,000,000.00 in settlement of the action. The story behind this case was retold in the feature film "Erin Brockovich."

Mr. Philips has also:

• Participated in a $ 20,000,000.00 settlement resolving a bad faith insurance claim alleging failure to pay life insurance policy benefits to heirs of survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915;
• Represented policyholders in a complex action against a major insurer following the 1994 Northridge, California earthquake, which was resolved for more than $7,000,000.00; and
• Successfully represented a celebrity client in large-scale litigation against Zsa Zsa Gabor that garnered international media attention.

Mr. Philips has advocated on behalf of numerous high-profile professional athletes, as well as celebrity film, television, and stage performers. He has also advised and represented many businesses and has written numerous articles for nationally distributed business publications on topics of state and federal business law.