Stephen C. Neal, 60

Litigation

Neal scored for clients in two white-collar cases in 2008. In the first, he won acquittals on 20 fraud and larceny charges for a former executive of New York-based Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. in New York state court. After a 10-month trial, Edward McNenney was convicted on only one state antitrust count, which is on appeal. Then, in October 2008, a San Francisco federal jury acquitted Neal's client, Kent H. Roberts, the former general counsel of Santa Clara-based McAfee Inc., on two counts of mail fraud related to stock options backdating. The jury hung on other charges and, after trial, the government dropped the case. Neal was also part of a team that defeated a class certification motion in an antitrust case against client Santa Clara-based NVIDIA Corp., and he represented San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc. against Irvine-based Broadcom Corp. before the International Trade Commission.