Stacy D. Phillips , a certified family law specialist, is a founder and the managing partner of Phillips, Lerner, Lauzon & Jamra, LLP, a full-service family law firm in Los Angeles.  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.  Ms. Phillips is also the author of Divorce: It's All About Control How to Win the Emotional, Psychological and Legal Wars (now in its fifth printing). 

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:

• 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)

In addition to her book, which continues to receive high praise from colleagues and peers, Stacy Phillips has been quoted in dozens of publications such as, People Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Town & Country, Us Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Daily Journal, Chicago Tribune, Business Week and the Los Angeles Times.    She has appeared on numerous television programs, some of which include: CNN Headline News, MSNBC Live, MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show, E! Entertainment, BBC News, Court TV (now TruTv), Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, Access Hollywood, Inside Hollywood, Extra, Inside Edition, CBS The Sunday Show, CBS The Early Show, NBC The Today Show, NBC Dateline, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, CNBC High Net Worth, VH1, Fox News Network, Fox 5 Morning News (San Diego), ABC News' 20/20, ABC Good Morning America, ABC Nightline, ABC Primetime, Interaktiv (Hungary), Asahi TV (Japan), Movie Central (Canada), TV Guide Channel and Star TV.

As a columnist, she 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 eleven years they have selected a different local charity each year to assist for a 12-month period, offering hands-on involvement and fundraising support. 

Ms. Phillips continues to give lectures and speeches.  She also develops and presents instructional and informational 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 the spring of 2009, she was a featured speaker at the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association 50^th Anniversary Convention in Williamsburg, Virginia.  In February of this year, Ms. Phillips spoke at the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts' (AFCC) California Chapter Annual Conference. 

Her lectures have included addressing the Women Lawyers Association on mentor/mentee relationships and alternatives to big firm practice. Ms. Phillips also was invited to speak at the California Women Lawyers 1998, 1999 and 2000 conferences entitled, Business Development for Women Lawyers. At the FindLaw Business Development Conference in 2004, during the  Successful Marketing Techniques for Profitability and Results, Ms. Phillips spoke on two panels: Why These Firms Are Best In Breed, (her firm named among them) and also, along with co-panelist and Fox News' Robert Massi, she discussed Practice Area Marketing: Learn From the Masters. In 2005, she chaired the Successful Marketing conference for FindLaw and moderated its Best of Breed panel. She also spoke at a breakout session on the subject of family law. In addition, Ms. Phillips served as a panelist on mediation and custody issues for the Los Angeles Bar Association on the topic of Effective Representation of Family Law Clients in Mediation and was a panelist for both the California Continuing Education (CEB) organization, focusing on issues of child and spousal support, and the Rutter Group for a course they provided regarding a basic overview of family law. In addition, she also was the 2005 chairperson and a panelist for the Seminar Group's Relationship Agreements where she spoke on cohabitation, the new domestic partnership laws, and alternative dispute resolution. She also spoke at a program sponsored by City National Bank, Divorce Hollywood Style: Avoiding Common Pitfalls. In July 2006, Ms. Phillips co-chaired a conference for West Legal Works called Your Future as a Rainmaker: A Marketing Boot Camp for Lawyers.  Ms. Phillips also speaks on a regular basis to a variety of women's groups.

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.