Steven Stern

Biography

Steven C. Stern is a founding partner of Sokoloff Stern LLP. He graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1992 and obtained his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1995. Mr. Stern represents hundreds of municipalities, school districts, public authorities, and public officials throughout the State of New York, focusing largely in the defense of civil rights, employment discrimination, police liability, free speech and religion, land use, municipal, and education matters.
Mr. Stern’s background includes several years as an Assistant Corporation Counsel and Supervisor in the New York City Law Department’s Special Federal Litigation Division, where he handled some of the City’s most high profile federal civil rights and employment cases. Mr. Stern was one of the City’s Continuing Legal Education instructors.
 Mr. Stern is a Martindale-Hubbell AV-rated “Preeminent” attorney and a New York Metro “Super Lawyer.” He lectures in the areas of federal practice, civil rights, employment, and municipal liability to attorneys, insurance companies, police departments, and school districts. He is often asked to speak before the Nassau and Suffolk County Bar Associations, the New York Conference of Mayors, municipal insurers, the Federal Bar Council, and at Stony Brook University.

 

Education

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Admissions/Licenses

• Bar Admissions: NY