Prosecutorial Misconduct

Neal Stephens, a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School, began his career as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Alicemarie H. Stotler in United States District Court in the Central District of California. Neal later served as Chief of Narcotics in the United States Attorney’s Office in Miami. As a federal prosecutor, Neal received national awards from the Attorney General, FBI Director, and DEA Administrator for leading international roving wiretap investigations that resulted in the extradition and conviction of Colombian cocaine cartel leaders. Neal has spent the past 25 years as a criminal defense attorney representing clients in complex white-collar prosecutions and has litigated every possible aspect of prosecutorial misconduct in federal courts throughout the United States. Neal is a partner at Jones Day in Palo Alto, California.  Amanda Stephens James, a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Michigan Law School, served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Sarah L. Ellis in United States District Court in the Northern District of Illinois. Amanda has also worked for the Northern California Innocence Project and externed at the Public Defender’s Office in New Orleans and the Federal Defender’s Offices in Chicago and Detroit. Amanda is a litigation associate at Winston & Strawn LLP in Chicago, Illinois.