Neil Phillips is an associate in the firm’s New York office. He represents individuals and companies in complex civil and criminal matters in state and federal courts nationwide. Neil has experience in an array of practice areas and subject matters, including consumer class actions, administrative proceedings against the Federal Trade Commission, antitrust, and federal grand jury investigations and felony criminal proceedings.
Neil also has significant trial experience. Most recently, Neil was counsel to an energy trading executive charged with Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and money laundering charges in an eight week federal criminal jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Neil also was counsel in an expedited trial in Delaware Chancery Court that resulted in a victory for client Arranta Bio against ThermoFisher Scientific.
Prior to joining Quinn Emanuel, Neil graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center and served as a law clerk to District Judge William J. Martinez in the District of Colorado and Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck in the Southern District of New York.
- Georgetown University Law Center
- (J.D., cum laude, 2014)
- University of Massachusetts
- (M.A., English, 2011)
- Roger Williams University
- (B.A., English, 2009)
The State Bar of New York; The State Bar of Massachusetts; The State Bar of Connecticut
- United States v. Hoskins: Reshaping the Agency Theory of Corporate Criminal Liability, Reuters (2022)
- How Poor is Poor Enough? Tracking the Evolution of Student Loan Dischargeability from Judge Haight to Judge Easterbrook, 12 Geo. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 329 (2014)