High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Neil Papiano born (1934-11-25) November 25, 1934 (age 78), in Salt Lake City, Utah, is an American lawyer, and managing partner of Iverson, Yoakum, Papiano & Hatch. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees from Stanford University, the latter in 1957, and an LL.B. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1961. He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1961 and is a member of the Los Angeles County and American Bar Associations. His practice areas are civil litigation and appellate practice, entertainment law, libel and defamation litigation, and corporation and securities law.