Full-service law firm integrating legal, advocacy, and business strategy
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips is a 500+ person law partnership headquartered in Los Angeles, operating since 1965. The tech footprint is lean—Microsoft stack plus Workday and Carta—but the project list reveals a firm in operational transformation: building a data lakehouse, automating contract review, implementing procurement strategy, and designing conflict-detection workflows. The hiring mix (48 legal roles, plus finance, HR, marketing, and a small data team) mirrors that shift, with sustained mid-to-senior level recruitment suggesting internal re-platforming rather than simple headcount scaling.
Notable leadership hires: Procurement Director, Director, Business Director
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips combines legal services, government and regulatory advocacy, and business consulting within a single partnership structure. The firm serves mid-market and enterprise clients across multiple practice areas, supported by in-house finance, HR, and business operations teams. Current operational priorities include compliance remediation, conflict-of-interest detection, billing optimization, and contract automation—areas where the firm is actively recruiting finance, data, and administrative talent alongside attorney hiring. The firm is US-based and operates across a single country hiring footprint.
The firm uses Microsoft Office (Outlook, Teams, Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Zoom for conferencing, Workday for HR and finance operations, and Carta for cap-table management. A data lakehouse architecture implementation is underway.
Current initiatives include compliance corrective action plans, contract automation playbooks, conflict-of-interest detection systems, procurement strategy implementation, and a data lakehouse architecture project.
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