About Steve
After college he entered Law School at Mercer University and received a Juris Doctorate degree with Honors in 1970. He served on the Mercer Law Review and the Student Government Association. He also served in the United States Army Reserves from 1969 through 1974.
As a professional, he became a member of the Florida Bar in 1971, was admitted to practice before the United States District Court Southern District of Florida in 1971, to the Trial Bar of the United States District Court in 1983 and to the United States Court of Federal Claims in 1993. His professional associations have included the Florida Bar, Broward County Bar (where he served as President from 2004 through 2005), the Florida Justice Association and the Broward County Justice Association. He has been a title insurance agent for both Old Republic National Title Company and Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company.
Steve’s main areas of law practice have been real property law including title insurance for owners and lenders, commercial litigation including mortgage foreclosures, personal injury litigation, family law, along with a litigation and office practice involving a myriad of other matters.
Steve has served as a Supreme Court of Florida Certified Circuit Mediator since the beginning of 2012 and has mediated many contested issues saving the parties time, money and the uncertainty and acrimony involved in contested litigation.
Steve holds the highest “AV” rating from Martindale-Hubbell, as determined by his peers, and was the 2007 recipient of the Lynn Futch Professionalism in Practice Award presented by the Broward County Bar.
Steve’s community involvement has included the West Broward Ski and Travel Club; Plantation Athletic League coach; Plantation Chamber of Commerce; Plantation Kiwanis; and the Barbershop Harmony Society.
Steve enjoys spending time in the Florida Keys with his family and friends, singing bass with Barbershop Choruses and Quartets and occasionally torturing himself and others on the golf course.
As of December 31, 2015, Steve retired from the active practice of law at which time mediation and arbitration became his full-time occupation.