Benjamin G. Shatz, a certified Appellate Specialist, co-chairs the Appellate Practice Group at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP.

He has briefed hundreds of civil appeals, writs, and petitions to the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals, California Supreme Court and California Courts of Appeal, covering areas of law including entertainment, employment, copyright, land use, banking, insurance, product liability, professional liability, wrongful death, punitive damages, class actions, unfair competition, and anti-SLAPP.

He has Chaired the California State Bar Committee on Appellate Courts, the Los Angeles County Bar Appellate Courts Committee, and LACBA’s State Appellate Evaluation Committee.

He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of California Litigation, the journal of the CLA’s Litigation Section, is a Trustee of the LA County Bar, and on the Executive Committee of LACBA’s Appellate Courts Section.

Before private practice he clerked for The Honorable Robert J. Johnston, United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Nevada, and externed for The Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

He is a frequent lecturer and author, having been published in California Litigation, California Lawyer, Los Angeles Lawyer, The Daily Journal, The Recorder, Inside Counsel, For the Defense, California Defender, CEB Civil Litigator Reporter, and many other legal publications.