Gregory Phillips

Practice Areas

For the last six years, Greg has been named by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America® in the Commercial Litigation field. Best Lawyers in America® is based entirely on peer review and the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues. In 2025, Greg received “Lawyer of the Year” honors for Litigation – Mergers and Acquisitions (Cleveland). Since 2015, Greg has received accolades from Benchmark Litigation, including being named a “Litigation Star” for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026.

As one of Benesch’s lead commercial litigators, Greg has directly contributed to the upward progression of the firm’s litigation practice in recent years and to retaining and growing the firm’s litigation client base. During this time, Benesch’s Litigation Practice Group has more than tripled in size.

Since joining Benesch, Greg has served as lead counsel on a number of significant matters for Benesch’s clients, including an international arbitration in which Greg secured an eight-figure recovery for a Fortune 200 company and other complex commercial arbitrations in which Greg obtained multimillion-dollar victories for his clients after trials on the merits. Greg’s clients include some of the largest companies in Northeast Ohio, as well as the largest U.S. debit and credit card processor; a global leader in sports, fashion, and media; and a leading international manufacturer with its U.S. headquarters in Silicon Valley.

Greg’s high-profile cases have attracted substantial media attention. His cases have been covered by prominent national and Ohio news outlets, including USA Today, Reuters, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, CBS Sports, Golfweek, Computerworld, Law360, Crain’s Cleveland Business, The Plain Dealer and The Columbus Dispatch.

As a member of Benesch’s Risk & Ethics Committee, Greg educates and trains colleagues on risk avoidance and mitigation, and provides advice and counseling on ethics matters when needed. Greg has significant experience in professional responsibility matters and the attorney-client privilege, having actively litigated legal malpractice claims and served as his former firm’s General Counsel and chair of its Ethics Committee.

Professional Memberships

• Member, American Bar Association

• Member, Ohio State Bar Association

• Member, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association

• Law Clerk for Senior Judge Albert V. Bryan, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1998-1999

Education