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Global law firm Hogan Lovells partner and former Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States, Neal Katyal, and two other Indian American lawyers have been named in Forbes’ America’s Top 200 Lawyers list for 2024.
Katyal is an American appellate lawyer and professor of law. He is a partner at the Hogan Lovells law firm and is the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center.
This series profiles some of the top practitioners in the profession — lawyers with stellar track records in their areas of focus, those who have broken barriers to emerge as leaders in their fields, and attorneys most respected by peers and clients. According to Forbes, the elite lawyers on this list were selected through a rigorous, multi-stage process of researching, evaluating and rating thousands of candidates, conducted by an editorial team with broad experience in law practice and the legal marketplace.
Forbes notes that Katyal has argued 50 cases before the US. Supreme Court, detailing his extensive experience constitutional law and litigation. Included in the profile is Katyal’s role as the Special Prosecutor for the State of Minnesota in the murder of George Floyd. Additionally, the feature underscores Katyal’s monumental win in a case upholding the constitutionality of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, as well as winning another landmark voting rights-related case in 2023 when the Court rejected the “independent state legislature theory” in a North Carolina gerrymandering case.
