Richard Neal 6139

Justice Richard Neal was born into a family of lawyers, with his father being a law professor and his mother being an Irish girl from Arlington, Massachusetts. He attended the University of Chicago Laboratory High School and Harvard College, and then went to Boalt Hall Law School. After graduating, he took the bar exam and got a job with a law firm in Los Angeles, where he worked on anti-trust and price-fixing class action cases. He was even able to go to the Supreme Court to watch one of these cases be argued.