Steve, a Fellow in the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, has spent over 35 years helping parties resolve their business and legal disputes, particularly in matters related to technology and life sciences licenses and agreements, and to intellectual property (patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and copyrights).

Steve’s practice is international. He is Chair of the ADR Committee of AIPPI, the largest international IP law society, and on the prestigious \"Tech List\" of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center. Until he joined JAMS, Steve had been on the American Arbitration Association\'s national panel for over 30 years, as well as its international Life Sciences and Complex Disputes panel.  In addition to the many cases he has handled in the US, Steve has been a neutral or advocate in arbitrations in France, Germany, Switzerland, and the U.K., in matters involving US, Asian and European companies.

Throughout his career, Steve has specialized in resolving disputes involving complex state-of-the-art technology. By way of example, Steve has handled matters involving gene-based diagnostic tests and therapeutic treatments; medical devices, such as heart valves, surgical tools, and proton beam therapy; satellite and wireless communication networks; consumer electronics; lithium-ion battery chemistry; high temperature superconductors; and MEMS and semiconductor devices.

Steve joined JAMS in 2020, after a career in private practice, including 17 years at Proskauer, where he co-chaired both its IP Litigation practice group and its Litigation Department, and was a member of its Executive Committee. While Steve was at Proskauer, Chambers USA annually ranked him as one of Boston’s top-five IP trial lawyers, describing him as a \\\"client\\\'s number one choice,\\\" ‘results-oriented,’ ‘a great strategist,’ ‘pragmatic and flexible,’ and ‘the litigator that clients want.” IAM named Steve an IP Global Leader; and SuperLawyers thrice named Steve as one of Boston\\\'s \\\"Top 100\\\"​ lawyers.

From 2012 - 2021, Steve taught MIT\\\'s undergraduate course on intellectual property. He has also been a Visiting Lecturer and Adjunct Professor at B.U. Law School, where he taught patent law and litigation, IP trial advocacy, and computer law courses.

Steve is on the Board of the Lurie Boston IP Inn of Court. He has also been on BULS\\\'s Dean’s Advisory Board, as well as the Board of Advisors of the Boston Museum of Science and the Huntington Theater, and the Editorial Board of the AIPLA Quarterly Journal.

Steve earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT in electrical engineering and computer science, with a biomedical focus. He started his legal career as a law clerk to Judge Philip Nichols, Jr., at the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C.

Steve is an IFR-rated pilot.