Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

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.

Areas of Practice

• Financial Institutions Litigation & Regulation
• Trial Practice
• Alternative Dispute Resolution & Mediation
• Insurance Coverage
• International Litigation & Arbitration
• Antitrust & Competition Law
• Securities and Shareholder Litigation & SEC Enforcement
• Product Liability & Tort Litigation
• Intellectual Property
• Insurance

Representative Cases

• 3D Systems, Inc. v. Vantico International, S.A., et al
• BayStar Capital Management v. Core Pacific-Yamaichi International
• Board of Regents, University of Texas, et al. v. EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems
• Chui Yee Ju v. Carmela Gutierrez, Roman Torres , (2009)
• City of Vernon v. Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority
• Doctors Medical Center Modesto, et al. v. Health Net Inc. et al., and related cross-claims
• Echelon v. Dreiss
• EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems v. DTM Corporation, and related cross-actions
• Franks v. Altegra Credit Company, United States District Court Case No. CV 02 6951
• Fred Young v. Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
• Gillespie v. TAP Pharmaceuticals, et al.
• Holmgren v. County of Los Angeles, , 159 Cal.App.4th 593 (2008). Appeal No. B194130, ___ Cal.App.4th ___, 71 Cal. Rptr. 3d 611 (Jan. 30, 2008); Shiell v. County of Los Angeles, Appeal No. B194042 (unpublished)
• In re Reformulated Gasoline (RFG) Antitrust & Patent Litigation and Lossada v. Union Oil Company of Calif., and consolidated / coordinated actions
• Iryami v. National City Bank of Pennsylvania, Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. BC 230926
• Kudrave v. County of Los Angeles
• Lawrence Bezirdjian, IRA v. O'Reilly, No. C07-01144 (Contra Costa County Superior Court)
• Leib v. Unocal Corporation, et al., and consolidated / related actions
• Margarita Hinojosa v. Leasecomm Corporation
• Microsoft v. GigaMedia
• NIPSCO v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London
• OCM v. Citibank et al.
• Partnership Placements Inc. v. Landmark Ins. Co., Los Angeles County Superior Court; California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Case No. B112272
• PPI v. Landmark Ins. Co.
• Shiell, et al. v. County of Los Angeles, et al., and related Employment Class Actions
• Stewart v. Mine Safety Appliances Company, et al (C.D. Ca)
• Tomey v. Altegra Credit Company, Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. BC 258329
• Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Cement & Gypsum Corp.
• Wardrop v. Amway Asia Pacific Ltd., No. 99-12093, 2001 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2857 (S.D.N.Y. March 19, 2001), aff'd, No. 01-7461, 2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 1658 (2nd Cir. Jan. 29, 2002)
• Wardrop v. Amway Asia Pacific, Ltd., No. 99-12093, 2001 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2857 (S.D.N.Y. March 19, 2001), aff'd, No. 01-7461, 2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 1658 (2nd Cir. Jan. 29, 2002)
• West Basin Municipal Water District v. Rice Financial Products, et al
• Zurich Insurance Company v. Southern California Regional Rail Authority d.b.a. Metrolink, California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Appeal No. B157582
• Advice to shelter residents relating to quality of life offenses, etc. , (2002)
• Jones Day attorneys assist victims of domestic violence
• Los Angeles Community Action Network Skid Row Pro Bono Legal Clinic , (2009)

West Practice Categories

Alcoholic Beverages, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Antitrust Law, Apparel, Asbestos, Bankruptcy Litigation, Business & Commercial Law, Capital Markets, Chemicals & Cosmetics, Class Actions, Commodities, Complex Litigation, Copyrights, Deceptive Trade Practices, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, Firearms, Food & Agricultural Products, Foreign Investment, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Antitrust, International Intellectual Property, International Law, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Machinery & Tools, Medical Products & Devices, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Military & Veterans Appeals, Motor Vehicle Defects, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, Patents, Pharmaceutical Products, Private Placements, Products Liability Law, Public Offerings, Recreational Products, RICO Act, Securities Fraud & Insider Trading, Securities Law, Securities Regulation, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, Technology Licensing, Tobacco, Trade Dress, Trade Regulation, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Unfair Competition, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• U of California - Los Angeles

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