Philip E. Cook (Phil)
Partner
Los Angeles
Tel: 1.213.243.2846
Fax: 1.213.243.2539
Email:
pcook@jonesday.com
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Phil Cook has a broad background in commercial civil litigation and has worked on matters involving contract disputes, business torts, trade secrets, insurance coverage and bad faith, governmental liability, corporate governance and securities, patent infringement, product liability and toxic torts, health care, labor and employment, real estate and secured transactions, construction defect, religion and First Amendment, antitrust and trade regulation, trademark, and environmental liabilities. Phil has been lead counsel in jury trials, bench trials, and in domestic and international arbitrations. In addition to his trial work, Phil has successfully resolved a significant number of matters through mediation, negotiation, and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.
Prior to attending law school Phil spent 12 years in the computer and consumer electronics fields. His business experience ranges from marketing and management positions with national Fortune 500 companies to his own entrepreneurial ventures.
As an adjunct professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law from 1994 to 1996, Phil taught a clinical course in trial practice. He also regularly participates in seminars and workshops teaching deposition, advocacy, mediation, and trial techniques and has appeared on the faculty at local and national continuing legal education seminars.
As the public interest Partner in Jones Day's Los Angeles Office, Phil has directed office pro bono activities since 2000, which includes significant and ongoing representation of Public Counsel and Bet Tzedek clients, among others. Phil also serves as a voluntary settlement conference officer for the Second District Court of Appeal, working to resolve in mediation matters pending in the California appellate courts.
Phil currently serves on the board of directors of Public Counsel, the board of governors of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, and the Steering Committee of the statewide ABTL Discovery Rules Task Force. He has been appointed by the Los Angeles County Superior Court as an early neutral evaluator and is a member of the Litigators' Liaison Committee of the Southern California Mediation Association as well as the litigation sections of the State Bar of California and the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He has been recognized by Chambers & Partners' Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers, has regularly been listed in Southern California "Super Lawyers," and is AV Peer Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
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California, all U.S. District Courts in California, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and pro hac vice in courts in Indiana and Texas
Education
Pacific Christian College (B.A. 1979); University of California, Los Angeles (Federal Communications Law Journal; Editor, Law Review; J.D. 1990)
Clerkship
Law Clerk to Judge Consuelo B. Marshall, United States District Court, Central District of California (1991-1992)