For more than 25 years, Steve has successfully represented foreign and domestic clients in a wide variety of white collar and civil fraud investigations and litigations.

Steve’s international white collar criminal defense practice focuses on the representation of business entities, professionals, business owners, and corporate executives charged with or under investigation relating to health care fraud and abuse, Foreign Corrupt Practice Act violations, government contract fraud, antitrust violations, Securities and Exchange Commission violations, Food and Drug Administration violations, United States Customs violations (export and import), Federal Trade Commission violations, Internal Revenue Service violations, and other similar business crimes.

In the past several years Steve has put his white collar practice to use in a new context. He has represented Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Burberry, and other well known trademark owners in the battle against counterfeiting. Steve has achieved an important breakthrough in obtaining federal court injunctions against landlords of 19 buildings on Canal Street in New York City. He has also obtained a similar ground-breaking settlement in Los Angeles’ notorious Santee Alley. Steve’s innovative strategy includes the application of criminal law theories as a means of holding third parties civilly liable for damages relating to counterfeiting activities.

Steve served four years as an assistant US attorney in the Eastern Division of New York where he held the positions of deputy chief of the criminal division and chief of the frauds section.

Steve is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the New York Council of Defense Lawyers, the International Trademark Association, and the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition.

Steve lectures and contributes quotes and articles to national legal publications. His speeches and publications include:

• Featured speaker at the World Bribery & Corruption Compliance Forum, London, UK, September 2010

• “Post-Enron, Gatekeepers and Corporate Responsibility,” Speaker, International Law Section, ABA Spring Meeting, 2008

• “Crimes and Misdemeanors in IP Cases,” Speaker, Intellectual Property Committee Annual Meeting, NYSBA, 2008

• “Federal Criminal Practice: Demystifying the Process,” NYSBA lecture; Spring 2004
• “What to Do When the Government Calls,” Institutional Investor’s Journal of Investment Compliance; Fall 2004

Steve’s work on behalf of Louis Vuitton was the focus of a front page article in the January 31, 2006 edition of The Wall Street Journal, titled “Bagging Fakers and Sellers — Makers of Luxury Goods Try New Legal Tactics Against Those Who Aid Counterfeiters.