Stephen Neal (lawyer)
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Stephen C. Neal is the CEO and chairman of Cooley Godward Kronish.
Neal successfully argued the case before the Delaware Supreme Court in which the Supreme Court upheld General Motors’ buy-out of Ross Perot under the business judgment rule.[1]
Neal argued and won one of the first cases upholding a so-called “flip-in” poison pill in Delaware Chancery Court and argued and won an early case upholding poison pill in the Northern District of Illinois.[citation needed]
In 2006 Stephen Neal was named by The National Law Journal as one of “The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America”.[2]
In September 2009, he was named in The Daily Journal’s[disambiguation needed 
] Top 100 Lawyers in California list.[3] Neal has also been named in the Northern California Super Lawyers list in 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2009.[4]
On October 2, 2007, Steven C Neal was elected to sit on the board of directors for Levi Strauss & Co.[5]
[edit] External links
- Stephen “Smooth as Butter” Neal Wins Acquittal for Former McAfee GC, October 6, 2008 Wall Street Journal Retrieved 2010-04-02
- http://www.stephencneal.com/
[edit] References
- ^ http://content.lawyerlinks.com/default.htm#http://content.lawyerlinks.com/library/sec/cases/539_a2d_180.htm LawyerLinks Retrieved 2010-03-30
- ^ Author unknown June 19, 2006 Corporate Board Member Ranks Cooley Godward as a Leading Corporate Law Firm in San Diego and San Francisco. http://www.judged.com/jdlawfirmnews.php?¤tpage=3214 Judged Retrieved 2010-03-29
- ^ Author unknown www.bingham.com/Media.aspx?MediaID=9782 Retrieved 2010-03-28
- ^ Author unknown http://www.superlawyers.com/california-northern/lawyer/Stephen-C-Neal/addbbdbf-d167-45f8-9bc5-f7f72430fe43.html Super Lawyers Retrieved 2010-03-29
- ^ http://www.levistrauss.com/Company/OurBoard.aspx
