Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Healthcare

• World-class transaction practice.Our extensive experience in healthcare transactional work has placed us at the center of many important transactions in recent years. Manatt healthcare transactional attorneys are often called on to deploy comprehensive teams to address issues related to transaction planning and negotiation, due diligence, healthcare transactional regulatory matters (including antitrust, Medicare and Medicaid audits, investigations, compliance and certification, anti-kickback issues, and licensing and accreditation), debt issues, and corporate restructuring. Our healthcare attorneys handle the full range of healthcare industry transactional matters, including hospital and health system mergers and acquisitions, provider integration transactions, financings of all types, joint venture transactions, and workout and turnaround projects.
• A nationally ranked litigation practice.Our healthcare litigators have been at the forefront of virtually every significant litigation issue of the past several years including rescission, capitation, vicarious liability, and ERISA preemption. Our litigators regularly defend and win significant class actions for our provider and payer clients. Our class action victories have resulted in the making of new laws impacting consumer health insurance rates, provider reimbursement, antitrust issues, nursing home staffing and the freedom of entities to publish information measuring provider performance; protecting consumers and supporting their choices.
• Highly effective healthcare regulatory practice. Hospitals, health plans, clinics and other healthcare services are subject to a bewildering array of federal, state and private regulation from multiple branches of CMS, as well as FDA, IRS, FTC, DOJ, OIG, state attorneys general, state Medicaid agencies, state licensing agencies and private accreditation bodies such as The Joint Commission. Manatt lawyers have extensive experience dealing with these agencies, and many were involved with the related agencies before coming to Manatt. Our professionals work daily with the underlying regulations in matters of interpretation, related business transactions, agency contact, regulatory comment and enforcement matters. Our success is evidenced in providing our clients with comprehensive and practical understanding of the regulation and the regulators, as well as finding sensible solutions in the real world.
• A first-class consulting practice. Manatt’s consulting practice – Manatt Health Solutions – understands the complexities of government health insurance programs and federal and state financing mechanisms. This ability, combined with knowledge of payer requirements and provider delivery systems, enables the firm to develop innovative and strategic solutions for both public and private sector clients.Manatt is engaged in a broad range of cutting-edge initiatives, including the design and implementation of health benefit exchanges, health information exchanges, and new models for the payment and delivery of healthcare services through accountable care organizations, medical homes and other hospital-physician-payer collaboration approaches. The Manatt team possesses deep technical knowledge of government programs, including proficiency in the eligibility, benefits, financing and administration of Medicaid, and CHIP, and in the interpretation and implementation of Medicare reimbursement and policy requirements. Manatt professionals are leading complex strategy engagements for state governments, major insurance companies, major health delivery systems and leading pharmaceutical companies.

Diversity at Manatt

Manatt considers diversity to be a fundamental component of our institutional identity. As a law firm, we have a professional responsibility, and as individuals, we have a personal responsibility to our respective communities. Incorporating diversity into our culture allows us to enhance the high-quality, creativity and excellence in legal services that our clients have come to expect.

Manatt has invested a significant amount of human and financial resources in our own diversity program. Our philosophy is simple: include women and minority lawyers at all levels of Firm leadership and promote diversity in the legal profession through our support and active involvement in various minority civic and bar organizations.

The mix of our minority and women attorneys has consistently exceeded the national average among the country's top law firms. Our talented mix includes minority and women lawyers serving as heads of offices, members of the firm's Board of Directors and management team, and chairs of some of the firm's most important practice groups.

Inclusive Culture
Our progressive culture allows us to maintain a growing mix of women and minority lawyers, and the results illustrate this commitment.  The American Lawyer ranked our Firm 29th (in the top 12%) on its Diversity Scorecard for the largest 250 law firms in the country for 2009.  Multi Cultural Law Magazine included our Firm on its 2008 lists of the Top 100 Law Firms for Diversity, Top 25 Law Firms for Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders, and Top 25 Law Firms for Openly Gay/Lesbian Americans.

Despite our progress and diversity success, we can do better.  Our challenge extends far beyond exceeding national averages.  Our plan cannot succeed if we focus only on recruiting minority and women attorneys.  The true challenge and measure for achieving success lies in creating and preserving an inclusive environment where our minority and women lawyers will stay, progress, prosper and succeed.  We have implemented a formal diversity program designed to enhance our recruiting and retention of diverse attorneys through an executive mentoring program intended to cultivate personally and professionally meaningful relationships between our diverse lawyers and our partners. 

Our commitment to diversity exists in a living document – a plan – that is concrete, easy to understand and publicly available.  The plan demonstrates to every law school student, lateral associate candidate, lateral partner candidate, recruiter, existing client, and potential client that we are serious about creating a workplace that mirrors the breadth of the communities where we and our clients live and work.

We focus on the following key areas to accomplish our mission.

Targeted Recruitment Effort
At Manatt, recruiting women and minority attorneys does not end on law school campuses. Our recruiting efforts focus on locating talented women and minority lawyers at all levels. At law schools, we seek out and interview students who share our core values in ways shaped and enhanced by their own experience. Manatt's 2005 Summer Program was the most diverse in the Firm's history. Our nine 2005 Summer Associates included two African-American students, three Hispanic students, one Asian-American student and three Caucasian students. Five of these nine students were women.

Mentoring as a Cornerstone
Minority attorneys who join Manatt as new or lateral hires immediately become the focus of a mentoring program. They are paired with senior attorneys who take an active role in encouraging their career development. Mentors actively work with their protégés, helping them form business plans and involving them in firm-wide marketing and development opportunities. Management holds mentors accountable for their roles and their protégés' progress at the Firm, including reviewing their efforts as part of the evaluation and compensation process.

Access to Opportunity
Success is a matter of talent and opportunity. At Manatt, we believe that the key to retaining talented minority attorneys -- and therefore the key to the success of our diversity efforts -- is providing a distinctive experience that offers clear access to professional accomplishment. We provide women and minority attorneys with important responsibilities and leadership opportunities in client development activities, complex litigation, large transactional matters and high-profile community and civic organizations. We also encourage and support minority and women attorneys who take leadership positions within the firm and outside in the community at large.

Long-Term Commitment
We challenge ourselves to make our young lawyers feel valued, involved and invested in the future of the firm. We know that they will eventually occupy the most important financial, management and executive positions at Manatt. Our professionals thrive in an atmosphere that encourages and supports responsibility, ambition, and entrepreneurship. We offer true opportunity equal to individual commitment to success and advancement. That's the history of opportunity at Manatt, where professionals with talent and drive are rewarded with a nurturing, dynamic and energizing climate.

Promoting Diversity
Promoting diversity in the legal profession requires both an investment of money and time. Our women and minority attorneys are prominently involved and hold leadership positions in some of the most important minority civic and bar organizations in the country including:

• Asian Americans of Equality
• Asian Pacific American Legal Center
• Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association
• California Association of Black Lawyers
• California Black Chamber of Commerce
• California Women's Law Center
• Chilean Association of Attorneys
• D.C. Commission on Asian & Pacific Islander Affairs
• Hispanic National Bar Association
• Inner City Law Center
• International Human Rights Committee of the Association of the Bar of City of New York
• Korean American Bar Association
• Korean American Coalition
• L.A. Conservation Corps
• La Raza Galeria Posada
• Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
• Los Angeles Urban League
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund Board
• Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association
• The Association of Women in International Trade
• Women Lawyers Association
• Women's Bar Association of District of Columbia
• Women's Forum of Washington D.C.