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Stacy D. Phillips - Phillips, Lerner, Lauzon & Jamra LLP
Stacy D. Phillips and Phillips, Lerner, Lauzon & Jamra, LLP is a full service family law firm in Los Angeles that provides services in all matters related to family law, divorce, and custody.
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Stacy D. Phillips - Los Angeles Divorce & Custody Lawyer
Stacy D. Phillips specializes in the following family law areas:
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 Divorce/Marriage Dissolution | | Domestic Partnerships |
| Child Custody & Visitation | | Domestic Violence |
| Child & Spousal Support | | Restraining Orders |
| Breach of Fiduciary Duty | | Paternity Matters |
| Alternative Dispute Resolution | | CA Community Property |
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Stacy D. Phillips, a certified family law specialist and author, is a founder and the managing partner of Phillips, Lerner, Lauzon & Jamra, LLP, a full-service family law firm in Los Angeles. Her book, Divorce: It’s All About Control – How to Win the Emotional, Psychological and Legal Wars (2005 ExecuProv Press) is now in its fifth printing.
Ms. Phillips represents business executives, entrepreneurs, homemakers, and high-net worth individuals. She also counsels celebrities in the music, film and television industries, including noted personalities in sports and politics. Former clients of the firm have included Darcy LaPier (former wife of Jean-Claude Van Damme), Darryl Strawberry, Bobby Brown (former husband of Whitney Houston), Erin Everly (former wife of Guns 'n Roses’ Axl Rose), Toni Taupin (former wife of lyricist Bernie Taupin), Corina Villaraigosa (former wife of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa), Charlie Shanian (former husband of Tori Spelling), Jonathan Kaufer (former husband of Pia Zadora), Dean Sheremet (former husband of LeAnn Rimes), and Kelly Rutherford to name but a few. In 2008, she also represented the conservators with regard to Britney Spears’ family law matters.
A graduate of Dartmouth College, cum laude, Ms. Phillips earned her juris doctorate at Columbia University School of Law and began her career as a law clerk for the Honorable Edward Rafeedie of the United States District Court of the Central District of California. She is admitted to practice in all California State Courts and before the United States District Court, Central District of California.
A staunch supporter of victims’ rights, in 1994, Ms. Phillips co-authored Senate Bill 924 which extended the statute of limitations period for victims of domestic violence, to sue their abusers in civil court.
Ms. Phillips is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and has been designated as one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” by Lawdragon. She has also received many accolades over the years, including:
- Super Lawyer® Advisory Board | 2010
- “Top 10 Southern California Super Lawyer®” | 2010 (Los Angeles Magazine and Super Lawyers Magazine)
- “Top 50 Female Super Lawyer® in Southern California” | 2005 – 2010 (Los Angeles Magazine and Super Lawyers Magazine)
- “Women in the Law” | 2010 (Los Angeles Times Magazine)
- “Top 100 vote-getter” | 2005 – 2010 (Los Angeles Magazine and Super Lawyers Magazine)
- “Super Lawyer®” | 2004 – 2010 (Los Angeles Magazine and Super Lawyers Magazine)
- “Women Leaders in the Law” | 2009 - 2010 (Los Angeles Times Magazine)
- “Southern California’s Best Lawyers” | 2008-2009 (Los Angeles Times Magazine)
- “Los Angeles Area’s Best Lawyers” | 2007 (Los Angeles Times’ West Magazine)
- “Top Female Litigators in California,”| 2003 – 2010 (Los Angeles Daily Journal)
- “50 Most Powerful Women in Los Angeles Law.” | (Los Angeles Business Journal)
- “Best of the Bar” | (Los Angeles Business Journal)
Ms. Phillips continues to be the recipient of numerous distinguished honors and awards for her legal expertise and charitable works, including:
- Family Law Attorney of the Year | 2009 (The Century City Bar Association)
- Griffin Bell Award | 2009 (Dispute Resolution Services)
- Jurisprudence Award | 2009 (Anti-Defamation League)
- Spirit of Hope Award | 2008 (Tower Cancer Research Foundation)
- Women to Watch | 2005 (Jewish Women International Organization)
- Certificate of Commendation | 2006 (Presented by Mayor Villaraigosa, Councilman Jack Weiss and the City of Los Angeles for her literary achievement with her book Divorce: It’s All About Control)
- Women Who Make a Difference Award | 2001 (Los Angeles Business Journal)
- Patricia A. McClure Award| 2000 (The Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America)
- Women of Action Award | 2000 (The Israel Cancer Research Fund)
As a columnist, Ms. Phillips has written for such trade publications as the Los Angeles Daily Journal, Lawdragon, California Family Law Monthly, Divorce Magazine and many others. Her authored pieces also run on such Web sites as Yahoo! Personals, HitchedMag.com, DivorceMag.com, Divorce360.com, CNNMoney.com and AOL.com. Ms. Phillips has also appeared in a number of stories featured on major Web sites including TMZ.com, Yahoo.com, MSN.com, Divorce360.com, CourtTV.com, and WomensWallStreet.com. She has been featured by a number of wire services as well, including Associated Press, Radio, Television and Internet Report, Wireless News Flash and Newhouse News Service. She serves regularly as a legal analyst and commentator for many media outlets including the ABC network's Legal and Justice Unit.
Over the years, she has served on numerous philanthropic boards concerned with issues affecting children and their families. Ms. Phillips is on the Board of Directors of Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund) and former co-chair of the California Leadership Council of Legal Momentum. She is also currently a member of both the Chancery Club of Los Angeles and the National Partnership of Women & Families (formerly known as the Women’s Legal Defense Fund). Presently, she is on the Board of Ambassadors of Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services, where she was a former member of the Board of Directors, and she currently sits on the Board of Trustees and was the past President of the Board of Directors of Alternative Living for the Aging (ALA).
Ms. Phillips established the Stacy D. Phillips Endowment Scholarship Fund at The Mirman School, which provides funds to an underprivileged female student from a single-parent home to further her education. At Dartmouth College, her alma mater, she is also involved with the Ethics Institute, which serves the needs of the Dartmouth community as well as the larger academic community, through research and dialogue on emerging ethical issues, and the Phillips Family Fund which her family started over 30 years ago as part of their continued commitment to ethics. The Phillips Family Award in Ethics is presented annually to an undergraduate student from Dartmouth College who has successfully demonstrated strength and interest in applied and professional ethics. In addition, Ms. Phillips, along with members of her firm, founded the “Adopt-A-Center” program, where for the past 11 years they have selected a different local charity each year to assist for a 12-month period, offering hands-on involvement and fundraising support.
She continues to give lectures and speeches, seminars, and programs to numerous professional groups, bar associations, law firms, legal forums, law schools, universities and women’s groups. She has lectured at UCLA, Loyola Law School, Southwestern Law School, Pepperdine University, Western State University College of Law, and Dartmouth College. In 2009, she was the featured speaker at the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association’s 50th Anniversary Convention. In February of this year, Ms. Phillips was a speaker at the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts’ (AFCC) California Chapter Annual Conference.
The daughter and granddaughter of attorneys (her grandfather and father were partners in the New York law firm, Phillips Nizer LLP, founded by Ms. Phillips’ grandfather in 1926), Stacy Phillips resides in Los Angeles with her husband and children.
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| The Law Offices of |
Phillips, Lerner,
Lauzon & Jamra LLP |
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2029 Century Park East
Suite 1200
Los Angeles, CA 90067 |
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Tel:(310) 277-7117
Fax:(310) 277-0971
Web:http://plljlaw.com/
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