Neil Steiner

Member of Advisory Board

Neil Steiner (T’94, P’29) is a partner in Dechert’s Securities and Complex Litigation group. He represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies, hedge funds, investment advisers, corporations and their senior executives in litigations and regulatory investigations and works seamlessly with Dechert’s private equity team to resolve issues as they arise during transactions. Neil also devotes significant time to pro bono matters, with a particular emphasis on voting rights cases, and serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He received the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award in 2020 and the Second Circuit Federal Bar Council’s Thurgood Marshall Award in 2021 for his voting rights work and was named one of the ten most innovative lawyers in North America by the Financial Times in 2015. Neil served as a member of the Advisory Board of Jewish Life at Duke from 2019 through 2025. He lives in New York City with his wife, Amy, and children, Sam (T’29) and Rachel.