Phil Cook is a trial lawyer with first-chair experience in jury and bench trials and domestic and international arbitrations. His successful track record runs the gamut of commercial litigation, with a focus on financial transactions, corporate governance, securities, and insurance recovery. He also has experience in individual cases and class actions involving antitrust and trade regulation, patent infringement, product liability and toxic torts, governmental liabilities, real estate, First Amendment, and environmental law.

As an adjunct law professor, Phil has taught clinical courses in trial practice. He regularly participates in workshops teaching deposition, advocacy, and trial techniques and has appeared on the faculty at local and national CLE seminars.

Phil directed the pro bono activities of the Los Angeles Office from 2000 to 2013 and has represented dozens of Public Counsel clients, receiving its Volunteer of the Year recognition in 2012 and 2013. He is an approved voluntary settlement officer for the California Court of Appeal.

Before 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 a number of his own entrepreneurial ventures.

Phil is the immediate past president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers. He serves on Public Counsel's board of directors, its executive committee, and co-chairs its volunteer and strategic planning committees. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Litigation Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.