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Stacy D. Phillips and Kristina Royce Named 2023 Top 100 Lawyers by the Los Angeles Business Journal

Los Angeles Business Journal

Blank Rome partners Stacy D. Phillips and Kristina Royce, who also serves as co-chair of the firm’s Matrimonial and Family Law practice group, have been named 2023 Top 100 Lawyers by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Stacy, who was also recognized in the inaugural Top 100 Lawyers Awards supplement in 2022, received the "Champion of Mentorship" award, which was one of six specialty awards given "to those who continue to excel in the profession in unique and impactful ways." 

The Top 100 Lawyers are recognized for their legal achievements, community involvement, and impacts on the legal profession. The honorees have "demonstrated exceptional legal skill and achievements across the full spectrum of responsibility, exemplary leadership, and contributions to the Los Angeles community at large." 

The honorees were recognized at an awards event on May 18, 2023, in Los Angeles and in a special supplement of the Los Angeles Business Journal

To view the 2023 Top 100 Lawyers supplement, please click here


Stacy's and Kristina's honoree profiles, as published by the Los Angeles Business Journal, are copied below. 

Top 100 Lawyers Profile

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Stacy D. Phillips

Blank Rome LLP

Stacy D. Phillips is one of the country’s most well-known and respected family lawyers and litigators, handling primarily high-net-worth and high-profile divorce cases. She has skillfully guided her clients through critical transitions for nearly 40 years, including complex divorce actions, high-conflict custody cases, domestic violence matters, same-sex dissolutions, paternity cases and pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements. Phillips is known for her skilled negotiation, aggressive advocacy and compassion, whether in litigation, mediation or collaborative divorce.

Phillips is one of Southern California’s most sought-after attorneys. But what sets her apart from other attorneys is the breadth and depth of her leadership, involvement, giving and commitment to her clients, her firm and colleagues, young professionals, the legal industry and the Greater Los Angeles community. Phillips is an author, philanthropist, mentor and in-demand speaker and commentator on family law and other issues in the news.

Champion of Mentorship Profile

Stacy D. Phillips

Blank Rome LLP

What sets Phillips apart is the breadth and depth of her leadership, involvement, giving and commitment to her clients, her firm and colleagues, young professionals, the legal industry, and the Greater Los Angeles community. Phillips is also a particularly admirable mentor on a number of levels.

Phillips is a frequent speaker and moderator on a wide range of topics including divorce and family matters, other legal topics, mentoring, business development, lifestyle, entrepreneurship, female empowerment and other current issues. Within Blank Rome, Phillips has significant impact on the firm and the Los Angeles office as a leader, connector, savvy marketing strategist and a champion of women’s opportunities and advancement. Her stature as a rainmaker and strategic cross-marketer has allowed her to help expand her firm’s Los Angeles office with some of the most respected professionals in their fields. She serves the firm as a member of its Distribution Committee and Lateral Recruiting Committee and as a mentor to young attorneys.

Phillips also inspires solutions for empowering, equipping and enabling women in business and the community. She promotes a climate within Blank Rome for women attorneys to succeed, meet the challenges of life’s many demands, and to practice law as their authentic selves. She is the founder of Blank Rome’s annual Women’s Leadership Summit, an event designed to accelerate leadership skills and network development for female firm attorneys and clients, now in its seventh year.


Top 100 Lawyers Profile

Kristina Royce

Kristina Royce

Blank Rome LLP

Kristina Royce has established herself in a highly competitive field as one of the preeminent family law attorneys in Los Angeles. For more than two decades, she has dedicated her law practice to advising distinguished individuals in high-stakes divorce and custody matters. In 2020, Royce was tapped by her firm Blank Rome to co-chair its bi-coastal Matrimonial & Family Law Practice, one of the largest such practices in the country with 35 attorneys. In this leadership role, Royce consults firm attorneys on matters, mentors younger attorneys and keeps a vigilant eye on the practice group’s productivity.

Through a series of high-profile representations for a client roster that includes A-list celebrities, professional athletes, C-suite executives and other high-profile individuals, Royce is evolving the practice of matrimonial law, ushering in a shift that better suits the needs of many modern-day spouses.