A seasoned advocate with federal experience
Steve has wide-ranging experience with government investigations and criminal and civil federal court litigation. Before starting his own law practice in Fort Worth, Steve was a partner in the Dallas office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, representing corporate clients as a member of the firm’s Government, Regulatory, and Internal Investigations practice group. Before private practice, Steve spent nearly two decades as an Assistant United States Attorney with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas. He held several leadership positions in the Office, including Chief of the Criminal Division, Chief of the Civil Division, and First Assistant United States Attorney. In his time as a federal prosecutor, Steve tried more than 20 federal trials to verdict.
As Chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas for nearly four years, Steve oversaw more than 80 federal prosecutors and supervised all of the Office’s criminal cases, including complex white-collar fraud, national security, public corruption, cybercrime, and money laundering investigations. During his five years as Chief of the Civil Division, Steve supervised all of the Northern District’s affirmative False Claims Act litigation and the defensive civil litigation against the United States and its personnel. Under his leadership, the Civil Division built a robust affirmative FCA practice that recovered tens of millions of dollars annually in fraud proceeds on behalf of taxpayers.
