Stephen is a commercial and business litigation associate at Lynch Thompson, where Stephen has worked since 2018.  Stephen received his J.D. in 2018 from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. Stephen attended Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vermont) for undergraduate, graduating magna cum laude in 2013, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Theatre.  Stephen was awarded the Theodore S. Woolsey Prize when graduating from Middlebury.  

While in law school, Stephen worked as a student civil rights attorney at the Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center, focusing primarily on parole and bond reform litigation. Stephen also was a member of the Executive Board of the Julius H. Miner Moot Court, and served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Rita M. Novak of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Chancery Division. 

At Lynch Thompson, Stephen has worked with a variety of the firm’s medium and larger clients, on a range of litigated disputes.  Stephen is quickly developing significant deposition experience, as well as experience with all other facets of the discovery process.  Substantively, Stephen has worked on matters involving disputes over the sale of businesses, allegedly defective products, lost profits analyses, and standing issues. 

Prior to attending law school, Stephen worked at the New York headquarters of several international educational and cultural non-profit organizations, and for theatre companies in Manhattan and Brooklyn. He acted Off-Broadway, and was a Critic Fellow at the Kennedy Center, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Critics Institute.