Philip is a senior partner in the firm's business group in the New Orleans office. His business practice includes banking, commercial, real estate and probate. Philip represents various financial institutions in dozens of transactions involving financing of real estate construction, mergers and acquisitions and working capital. He also represents several real estate developers in connection with various development projects, from major office buildings to shopping centers. Philip represents as general counsel a large petrochemical manufacturer in connection with all aspects of business, from contract preparation and review to financing and real estate matters, to corporate formation and restructuring, and also supervised for the manufacturer other activities, such as environmental, personal, tax, and employee benefit matters. He is among a select group of lawyers, recognized in the categories of Banking & Finance and Real Estate, listed in a nationwide client survey published in Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business. In addition, Philip has been recognized by the publication Best Lawyers in America as well as Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Law.

• Tulane University, J.D., 1966; Index Editor, Associate Editor, Tulane Law Review; Order of the Coif; Phi Delta Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa
• Princeton University, A.B., magna cum laude, 1963

• Member: Louisiana State Bar Association; American Bar Association; New Orleans Bar Association; Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American Bar Foundation (Fellow); Louisiana Bar Foundation (Fellow); Louisiana State Law Institute; American Judicature Society; Board of Advisory Editors, Tulane Law Review; Children's Hospital (Board member since 1978; Executive Committee member since 1984; President 1985-1987); New Orleans Police Foundation (Board member since 1997)

• Co-author: Louisiana Commercial Financing Forms (1991), an 1100-page compendium of forms used in all types of commercial financing transactions published by Read-Elsevier, Inc..

• Representation of local, regional and national financial institutions in term and construction financings of several major office buildings and hotels in New Orleans area.
• Representation of local, regional and national financial institutions in dozens of lines-of-credit and term and construction financings of apartment buildings, hotels, assisted-living facilities and shopping centers throughout Gulf South area.
• Representation of financial institutions as agent for multi-bank financing of international offshore service company ($600 million), oilfield equipment fabricator ($40 million) and farm/construction equipment dealer ($40 million).
• Representation of owners in acquisitions, operations and sales of several major office buildings and hotels in New Orleans area.
• Representation of owner in development, leasing and financing of more than 20 locations for national drug store chain.
• Representation of large national retailer in acquisition of several store sites in Louisiana.
• General representation of major petrochemical joint venture plant in Louisiana.