A giant of appellate lawyering, Neal Katyal is no stranger to the Supreme Court, having argued 35 cases there in the last 9 years alone. After serving as Acting Solicitor General, Neal now works as a partner at Hogan Lovells and a professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center. An expert in a diverse array of practice areas (patent, constitutional, technology, and securities law, to name only a few) Neal has argued some of the most notable cases in recent memory, including a successful defense of the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Northwest Austin v. Holder. It may not be his greatest achievement, but perhaps his most public cameo was playing himself on a 2015 episode of the wicked D.C. drama House of Cards.