A partner in the Austin, Texas, office, Steve conducts an administrative law practice, focusing on utility law and proceedings before various regulatory agencies. He primarily practices before the state agencies that regulate public utilities in Texas and New Mexico. Steve also has practiced before the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

     Before concentrating his practice in utility and administrative law, Steve was involved in the broad practice typically associated with representing corporations and other business entities, including acting as lead counsel in the acquisition of several privately held concerns, as co-lead counsel in the acquisition of two privately owned electric utilities, and as co-lead counsel (lead counsel for the architect-engineering firm) on the negotiation of the contract to design and construct a 500 MW coal-fueled electric generating facility.

     Steve received his B.B.A. degree in accounting from Texas Tech University and his J.D. (with honors) from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the State Bar of New Mexico, and the Travis County Bar Association.