Who is steve?
Steve was born in San Antonio while his father was a law student at St. Mary’s School of Law. Steve and his wife Jennifer met in college and married in 1985, just before he started law school. After graduation, Steve practiced at Bracewell in Houston for 12 years, where both their sons, Will and Austin, were born. In 2000, Steve moved to Bracewell’s Austin office, and the family moved to nearby Dripping Springs. Both boys are grown and gone now, one to New York and one to Washington DC, but Steve and Jen still live on 23 acres there today, where they are active in the Dripping Springs community and their local church.
Professional activities
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State Bar of Texas
Board of Directors
2008-2011Annual Meeting Chair
2014Texas Pattern Jury Charge Committee
2011-2019Litigation Section, The Advocate Editorial Board
2010-Present -
Texas Bar Foundation
Board Chair-Elect
2022-Present
Fellows Chair
2019-2020Board of Directors
2010-11; 2017-Present
Sustaining Life Fellow
2005-Present -
Texas Legal Protection Plan
Chair
2014-2015Board of Directors
2012-2016 -
Robert W. Calvert American Inn of Court
President
2020-2021Executive Committee
2013-2022
Recognition and Honors
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State Bar of Texas
Presidential Citation
2014 -
Thomson Reuters
Super Lawyers
2006-2013, 2016-Present -
Legalease
The Legal 500 United States
Securities Litigation
2018, 2020-2022Construction
2013-2014, 2016-2018 -
U.S. News & World Report
Best Lawyers in America
Bet-the-Company Litigation, Banking and Finance Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Construction Litigation
2009-PresentAustin Lawyer of the Year
Construction Litigation, 2022
Banking and Finance Litigation, 2014, 2016
Personal life
When not at work or serving the legal profession, Steve draws his greatest pleasures from traveling with Jennifer and their sons and from retreating to their home and acreage in Dripping Springs, where he has led the local Boy Scout troop, presided over the school board, and taught the same Sunday school class for 22 years.
