After earning his MBA from New York University, Steve attended St. John's University School of Law, where he won writing awards in intellectual property law, developed a graphic computer system for modeling constitutional law issues and litigated contract compliance cases for the New York City Department of Law under a special practice order.

Upon graduation, Steve clerked for the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court and then became an adjunct professor at The Jacob Fuchsberg Law Center, Touro College.

Steve relocated to Denver, Colorado, to help litigate an international intellectual property action involving, among other things, software and trade secret licensing and theft, copyright infringement, and patent infringement. He also was an editor of the Technology Law and Policy Review column for The Colorado Lawyer magazine, and former co-chair of the Colorado Bar Association's Law and Technology Committee.

Subsequently, Steve Colorado Attorney General's Office in the multi-state anti-tobacco case. When that case settled, he defended criminal appeals for the Attorney General before returning to private practice, where he developed a profound interest in the law of privacy.

In 2004, Steve was asked by LexisNexis to write a treatise on the USA PATRIOT Act. The result, Privacy Law and the USA PATRIOT Act, is annually updated. Release 4 was issued by LexisNexis/Matthew Bender in November 2009. Steve has also written online commentaries for LexisNexis on important statutes and U.S. Supreme Court cases, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act amendments. Steve recently began a privacy blog on the LexisNexis emerging issues and litigation sites

Steve is admitted before the bars of Colorado, New York and California (inactive). He lives in Evergreen, Colorado with his wife and co-author, Nancy E. Friedman, Esq., the first Chair of the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission, and former Chief Counsel on Ethics to the New York City Council, his son, his dogs, and his guitars.