Hogan Lovell’s Katyal on Gorsuch, Diversity and the President’s ‘Corrosive’ Influence

What’s the trick to building an effective Supreme Court practice?

Interview at 30 different law firms, ask how they do it, and then steal all of their ideas, Hogan Lovell’s Neal Katyal joked last week in an interview with Big Law Business. As the saying goes, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.

“I ruthlessly ripped them off,” Katyal said with a smile, of his transition out of government and into private practice, where he landed at Hogan Lovells in 2011.

The sit-down at his firm’s Washington, D.C. office came shortly after he hit a milestone: Katyal argued 34 cases before the Supreme ...