Series II. Legal contains a collection of documents relative to murder trials, separation agreements, probate work, and corporate matters. Subseries A. Legal Practice contains records from his partnership with George P. Sanger and other law offices. Subseries B. Insurance Litigation/Legislation contains correspondence and records from Phillips' work at various insurance companies. Subseries C. Spaulding Partnership includes a register of cases handled in 1878 and 1879. Documentation of about 40% of the cases has survived. Each case is separated with a blank sheet of acid-free paper. Within each case, legal documents are filed first, then correspondence, followed by receipts and notes. A list of cases appearing in the register, but with no documentation, is listed in Appendix I. Of interest is an 1861 letter from Edwin M. Stanton to Phillips regarding Massachusetts vs. Rhode Island, a border dispute. Subseries E. Miscellaneous consists of cases that could not be associated with any particular Phillips office or partner. The cases are separated from each other by a blank sheet of acid-free paper. Within each case legal documents are filed first, followed by correspondence, receipts, and notes. Of interest is a deposition relative to litigation between Edward Muybridge and Leland Stanford concerning early experiments in motion photography.