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Practice Areas: Civil Litigation, Securities Law, Entertainment Law, Employment Law, Business Law, Real Estate, and Commercial Law

Additional Information: Mark A. Neubauer is a partner in the Century City office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he practices securities, entertainment, employment, business, real estate, and commercial law. His jury trial experience includes both state and federal courts. Mr. Neubauer’s clients include large corporations such as Johnson & Johnson, Komatsu Forklift USA, Inc., Cummins Cal Pacific, Kyocera Mita America, Inc., John Labatt Company, and City of Hope Medical Group.

Mr. Neubauer has been selected by his peers for a host of leadership positions in the bar, both locally and nationally. In 2006, he served as co-chair of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the 75,000-member Litigation Section of the American Bar Association (ABA), and on the Board of Editors of the ABA Journal. He previously was Editor-in-Chief of the ABA’s Litigation Journal, a member of the Section’s Governing Council, and director of its publications. In addition, he was the Chair, Vice-Chair, and Treasurer of the Litigation Section of the State Bar of California. He also is active in the Association of Business Trial Lawyers (ABTL), and formerly served as its President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer, a member of its Board of Governors, and Editor of the ABTL Report. Mr. Neubauer has been repeatedly recognized by his peers for his jury trial skills. He has been designated several times to give closing argument at the annual mock jury trial at the Association of Business Trial Lawyers' Annual Meeting and in 2008 was picked to give closing argument at the ABA Litigation Section's prestigious Litigation Institute for Trial Training. Mr. Neubauer is a former Assistant Vice President and Trustee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, where he also has participated on its Judicial Appointments Committee. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles County Bar Foundation.

Mr. Neubauer recently received the ACLU Foundation’s Pro Bono Civil Rights Award in recognition of his work for the Plaintiffs in the Harris v. Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors lawsuit, in which the Ninth Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction prohibiting the County of Los Angeles from reducing the hospital services available to the County’s indigent residents at County-USC Medical Center and from closing the famous Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center. He is listed in the publication The Best Lawyers in America as one of the top commercial litigators and in the Super Lawyers list of best lawyers in Southern California.

A recognized authority in civil litigation, Mr. Neubauer has authored or co-authored more than a dozen articles on trial and trial practice including the treatises, The Litigation Manual (ABA Press 1999), California Civil Discovery Practice (1998), and California Civil Procedure Before Trial (1990).

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Firm Members: Rebecca Edelson Carla Veltman Dylan Ruga Edward Gregory Jason Levin