Jessica Phillips
Partner
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, LLP
A partner in the Litigation Department, Jessica Phillips has litigated a variety of complex commercial cases in federal and state trial and appellate courts across the country. She has experience in a diverse array of practice areas, including employment law, contract law, business torts, securities fraud, constitutional law, defamation, healthcare and intellectual property. She has taken five cases to trial in courts around the country and has experience in California arbitrations.
Jessica currently represents individuals who were injured in the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in a lawsuit against 24 neo-Nazis, white supremacists and affiliated hate groups who organized and conspired to commit violence at the rally. Jessica also has extensive experience representing clients in appeals, including before the U.S. Supreme Court; she second-chaired Vance v. Ball State University, one of the most closely watched recent employment discrimination cases. She has also handled appeals before the New Hampshire Supreme Court, the Delaware Supreme Court, and the Second, Fourth, Sixth, Ninth, Eleventh and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeal, clerked for The Honorable Joel Flaum on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and for The Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr. on the United States Supreme Court. As lead counsel, Jessica argued a pro bono ERISA case before Second Circuit.
