Bill” Neukom, Microsoft’s top lawyer during its pivotal corporate milestones and legal cases of the 1980s and 1990s, has died at the age of 83. Known for his trademark bow tie in a sea of Oxford ...

The American Bar Association is deeply saddened by the passing of William H. “Bill” Neukom, who served as ABA president in 2007 and 2008, and offers its sincere condolences to his family and friends.

William "Bill" Neukom led the San Francisco Giants through just three seasons, but one of those was the team's first title in ...

Neukom, who began buying blocks of the team’s stock in 1995 with the millions he earned as Microsoft’s general counsel, was determined to bring the same organizational clarity to baseball he ...

He heard Bill Gates, Microsoft's founder, ... By the time Neukom left in 2002, Microsoft had grown to some 50,621 employees. The legal staff had grown proportionally bigger to more than 600 ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer named Brad Smith, who has served as Microsoft’s deputy general counsel for worldwide sales for the past five years, to succeed Neukom. “Bill Neukom has been an ...

SEATTLE - Software giant Microsoft Corp. said today its top lawyer, Bill Neukom, would leave the company in July 2002 after 22 years managing its legal affairs and would be replaced by his ...