Former acting Solicitor General joins Hogan Lovells

Hogan Lovells has hired Neal Katyal, the former acting U.S. solicitor general, to join the firm’s appellate group in Washington DC. Katyal served as the acting solicitor general from May 2010 until June 2011, between the tenure of Elena Kagan and Donald Verrilli. Katyal has worked outside of law firms since his time as a summer associate at Hogan & Hartson in 1995. Since then he has served as a national security adviser in the U.S. Department of Justice under President Bill Clinton and as Al Gore's co-counsel in the case over the disputed Florida election results in 2000 that went to the Supreme Court. He been a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a post from which he served as lead counsel for Guantánamo Bay detainees in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which resulted in the 2006 Supreme Court ruling that the Bush administration's military tribunals violated prisoners' human rights.

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