Elizabeth Mann is the founder of Mann Legal Team. She is a successful trial lawyer as well as a trusted advisor to many companies providing healthcare and pharmaceutical products and services. She concentrates her practice on complex litigation matters and health care regulatory and transactional activities.

Elizabeth's clients report that they have been very satisfied with the results that she delivers. They attribute this success to her mature sense of risk assessment, allowing her to give odds beating advice when it comes to strategic decisions involving how hard to push a case, whether to try it, and when, and under what circumstances, to settle. In transactional and regulatory matters, Elizabeth’s clients report that she is a “steady hand” guiding the process forward to secure excellent results. Many of Elizabeth's clients report that over time she has become a valuable member of their management team, having developed a strong understanding of their business needs and imperatives. Elizabeth's clients often refer her services to their colleagues.

Litigation Experience

• Represented healthcare provider and pharmaceutical companies in defending Department of Justice investigations.
• Represented health insurer and provider group in defending Department of Labor investigation.
• Represented real estate developers in dispute with lender, obtained multimillion dollar verdict after jury trial.
• Represented an individual plaintiff in a defamation and tort case, obtained multimillion dollar verdict after jury trial.
• Represented pharmaceutical companies in antitrust litigation with successful trial results and favorable settlement.
• Represented numerous health insurers in ERISA cases, securing defense judgments and favorable settlements.
• Represented healthcare insurer defending against claims alleging that the insurer engaged in unfair business practices and violated antitrust laws in its structuring of provider reimbursement, case defensed by summary judgment.
• Represented a national insurer bringing antitrust claims against competitors and others with successful resolution.
• Represented a large Korean company defending against U.S. antitrust claims with successful resolution.
• Represented hotel chain defending against class claims that the hotels’ practices violated landlord-tenant laws designed for property rentals, defenses and favorably settled.

Transactional Experience

• Led regulatory efforts to secure approval for various health insurers to purchase licensed insurers.
• Led regulatory efforts for health insurer seeking to expand its services to offer individual and family plans on and off of the Covered California exchange.
• Providing healthcare and FDA compliance advice to international online retailer of medical devices.
• Provided HIPAA compliance advice to healthcare companies engaged in all aspects of the finance, insurance or delivery of healthcare products and services.
• Providing FDA advice to a public company acquiring a biologics manufacturer.
• Represented a pharmaceutical company negotiating with a large GPO for a newly-FDA approved drug.
• Provided healthcare regulatory advice to an international health sciences company in purchase and sale transactions involving pharmaceutical companies/assets.
• Provided healthcare regulatory advice in transaction where health insurer was purchasing an interest in a large revenue cycle management, EHR and data analytics firm.
• Provided healthcare regulatory and change of control advice to international lending syndicate concerning multimillion dollar loans secured by failing healthcare assets.
• Advised a nationwide privately held senior living organization concerning captive GPO ownership and safe harbor compliance.
• Advised public company health insurance agency concerning compliance with healthcare regulatory requirements.

AWARDS, HONORS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

BTI “Client Service All-Star” – 2020

National Law Journal “Healthcare Trailblazer” – 2019

Daily Journal Top 100 Women Lawyers – 2016 and 2018

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles – Pro Bono Project of the Year - 2007

Elizabeth is very active in the Los Angeles legal community. She is the Co-Chair of the Los Angeles Complex Courts Committee and the Court Funding Committee of the Los Angeles Bar Association. She is also Chair Emeritus of the Litigation Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. She is a member of the California Chancery Club. She is a former member of the Board of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers. In these capacities Elizabeth regularly interacts with prominent Los Angeles judges and attorneys

EDUCATION

University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, JD

Pomona College, BA, phi beta kappa

Stephanie received her Paralegal Certificate with Distinction, from UCLA in 2020. She also holds a B.A. In English from Eastern Connecticut State University. Stephanie is a member of the Los Angeles Paralegal Association and a California Notary Public. Stephanie has prepared major cases for trial, and has experience in litigation preparation, e-Discovery. She has assisted in preparing estate planning documents and contracts.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Labor and employment counsel, defending clients in state and federal courts
• Successful 1st or 2nd chair of over twenty bench and jury trials and arbitrations
• Drive cases from inception to resolution, including formulating case strategy; taking and defending depositions of plaintiffs, expert witnesses and third-party witnesses; successful motions (including summary judgment); representing clients in mediations; preparing for arbitration and trial
• Conduct internal investigations and interview witnesses regarding claims of harassment, discrimination, whistleblowing, retaliation, and wrongful termination
• Provide counseling and advice to clients on various employment issues, including reasonable accommodations, leaves of absence, terminations of high level executives, and investigations of harassment and discrimination claims to minimize potential litigation
• Conduct harassment and discrimination prevention training and other training courses
• Work with clients regarding pre-litigation and litigation strategies as well as litigation prevention
• Supervise junior associates, summer law clerks and paralegals
• Past mediator, Los Angeles Superior Court ADR Panels, California Court of Appeal Panel

Representative Successes:

• Second-chaired jury trial in disability in discrimination, receiving a complete defense verdict. (This was the second trial after mistrial declared in the first trial after more than a week of testimony.)
• successfully obtained summary judgment against FEHA claims of discrimination, retaliation and failure to accommodate prompting dismissal of two additional actions filed by same plaintiff’s counsel asserting similar claims.
• Successfully compelled arbitration for clients under challenging circumstances including develop supporting evidence to compel enforcement of agreements against plaintiffs’ challenges to the validity of the agreements.
• Developed winning strategy for arbitration resulting in defense award on first morning of schedules three-day arbitration.

EDUCATION

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL -- Cambridge, Massachusetts, Juris Doctor

PITZER COLLEGE -- Claremont, California, Bachelor of Arts, Economics/Psychology

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

MORGAN, LEWIS, Los Angeles, California - 2007-Present
Senior Attorney –Labor & Employment Practice Group.

OFFICES OF TERI E. KIRKWOOD, Los Angeles, California - 2003-2007
Litigator and Mediator with extensive experience representing individuals and businesses in various employment matters, Business, Homeowners Association, complex environmental pollution, and fair housing litigation.

WILION, KIRKWOOD, HOFFMAN & DEANE, LLP - 1999-2003
(Formerly Wilion, Kirkwood & Kessler, LLP), Los Angeles, California Partner, Head of Employment Practice Group. Litigator and Mediator. Practice focused on employment (70%) and civil litigation in a variety of subject matter areas in state and federal courts, at trial and appellate levels, including: wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, disability discrimination, defamation, and Homeowners Association claims and issues.

ADMISSIONS

State Bar of California, U.S. District Court, Central, Eastern, Southern Districts of California