McManis Faulkner’s Managing Partner Elizabeth Pipkin has been recognized by Chambers & Partners in its annual Chambers USA Guide 2026 in the Litigation: General Commercial category.
Chambers USA’s rankings are based on independent and in-depth market analysis, coupled with an assessment of lawyers’ and law firms’ experience, expertise and caliber of talent. The company’s professional researchers conduct extensive client interviews to make their selections, assessing individual attorneys for their knowledge and experience, ability, effectiveness and client service.
Comments about Pipkin shared with Chambers’ researchers include:
- “Elizabeth Pipkin provides in-depth commercial knowledge, legal experience and strategy every step of the way.”
- “She is one of the most collaborative lawyers I have worked with.”
- “Elizabeth is an excellent counselor with great customer service and commercial awareness.”
Pipkin represents companies and individuals in a wide range of disputes, including those involving technology, trade secrets, complex commercial issues and civil rights matters. She is currently a member of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California’s Civil Local Rules Attorney Advisory Committee, a body of five attorneys that assists the court in enforcing standards of professional behavior. In 2024, she served on the Court’s Professional Conduct Committee, and she recently co-chaired the Ninth Circuit Lawyer Representatives Committee for the Northern District. Pipkin is the past president of the Board of Trustees for the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley and on the Executive Committee of the Harvard Law School Association of Northern California. Pipkin received her J.D. from Harvard Law School (2001) and her B.A. from Brigham Young University (1998).
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McManis Faulkner, a San Jose, California-based trial firm, provides a full range of litigation services, representing both corporations and individuals through trial and appeal. The firm handles a wide range of litigation, including business, civil rights, class actions, criminal, employment, family, general civil, intellectual property, personal injury, probate, and professional negligence. With experienced, well-trained trial lawyers and staff, McManis Faulkner prides itself on its ethnic, cultural and religious diversity.