Mark A. Neubauer

Partner

• mneubauer@steptoe.com
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• Century City Office

Mark A. Neubauer is a partner in the Century City office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he practices securities, antitrust, 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. Over 30 years, he has dealt with a wide range of legal issues, including unfair competition and other business torts and statutory claims.

Mr. Neubauer has been selected by his peers for a host of leadership positions in the bar, both locally and nationally. He is currently vice-chair of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Publishing Oversight and co-chair of the ABA’s Litigation Section’s CLE Oversight Committee. In 2006, he served as co-chair of the Litigation Section’s Annual Meeting and sat 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 2008-10 was picked as one of the panel of trial lawyers to demonstrate trial skills 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 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).

Noteworthy

• Best Lawyers in America, Commercial Litigation, Bet-the-Company Litigation, and Intellectual Property Litigation, 2006-2012
• Southern California Super Lawyers, Business Litigation, 2007-2012
• Daily Journal Top Defense Verdicts, 2010
• Daily Journal Top 50 Employment Defense Counsel List, 2010
• Best Lawyers in America, Commercial Litigation, 2008 - See what clients have to say about Mark Neubauer
• Wrote "Taking and Defending Oral Depositions" for the fourth edition of California Discovery Practice, published by CEB

Select News & Events

• Southern California Super Lawyers Recognizes 12 Steptoe Attorneys
• Steptoe Receives 67 Individual Mentions from Best Lawyers
• Anatomy of a Trial, ABA Litigation Section Annual Meeting, April 14, 2011
• Southern California Super Lawyers Honors Steptoe Attorneys
• Steptoe Claims Two Spots on Daily Journal’s Top Defense Verdicts
• Law360 Features Mark Neubauer's Tips for Closing Arguments
• Don't Get Burned: Hot Topics for a New Year - What Will Impact Products Defense in 2010?, February 23, 2010, (A Steptoe-Sponsored Event)
• Southern California Super Lawyers Honors 14 Steptoe Attorneys
• Speaker, eDiscovery: The Pitfalls of Litigation and Email, October 29, 2009, 24th Annual 2009 ISSA SoCal Security Symposium
• Speaker, The Credit Crisis and its Impact on the Mortgage Industry, Corporate Financing, and Business Insolvency, January 22, 2009, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, LA Chapter
• Mark Neubauer Selected to Give Demonstration at Litigation Section Institute for Trial Training, July 11, 2008
• Mark Neubauer Moderates Panel at ABA Editors' Symposium, September 28, 2006

Selected Publications

• The Price of Political Fame
  June 4, 2010, The Los Angeles Daily Journal
• The Burdens of E-Discovery Grow Even Larger
  February 2010
• California Joins the E-Discovery Age
  Fall 2009, Association of Business Trial Lawyers Report
• Anatomy of a Trial: A Primer for Young Lawyers
  Reviewed by Mark. A Neubauer
  Summer 2009, American Bar Association's Litigation Magazine
• Farewell to Fear
  January 2, 2009, Los Angeles Daily Journal. Posted with the permission of Daily Journal Corp. (2009)
• Mastering the Blind Cross-Examination
  January 2009, The Journal of the Section of Litigation - American Bar Association
• Why We Should Graduate from the Electoral College
  October 31, 2008, Los Angeles Daily Journal. Posted with the permission of Daily Journal Corp. (2009)

Professional Affiliations

• Co-Director of Division II - Publications, CLE & Programs, 2011
• National Co-Chair of the Judicial Intern Opportunity Program, 2011
• Vice-Chair of the ABA Standing Committee of Publications (SCOPO), 2008-2010
• Co-Chair of the CLE Oversight Committee for the ABA Litigation Section, 2009-2010
• Co-Division Director of Publications for the ABA Litigation Section, 2008-2009
• Association of Business Trial Lawyers (ABTL)