Neal Katyal

Neal Kumar Katyal (born March 12, 1970) is an American corporate lawyer and academic. He is a partner at Hogan Lovells and the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center. During the Obama administration, Katyal served as Acting Solicitor General of the United States from May 2010 until June 2011. Previously, Katyal served as an attorney in the Solicitor General's office, and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the U.S. Justice Department. He has argued more U.S. Supreme Court cases than any other minority lawyer in American history. Katyal was born in Chicago, Illinois, to immigrant parents originally from India.