Steve has been retained during his 35-year career by more than 100 major companies to improve business strategies and achieve better results.  He has served as consultant to executive officers managing a wide variety of corporate disciplines in developing and implementing strategic initiatives designed to improve every aspect of department and corporate performance. 

He served as consultant and facilitator for the Chief Legal Officer of the 21st Century Advisory Group and the Chief Litigation Officer Advisory Group, both of which met quarterly over a three-year period to discuss and develop more effective strategies for law department and litigation management.

From 1992 to 1997, he served first as consultant and then as Corporate Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Prudential Financial corporate law department, which then ranked as the 7th largest in the U.S. with more than 300 lawyers.  He was the senior leader responsible for the department's transformation strategy as well as departmental operations, including law firm convergence and partnering, finance, human resources and compensation, technology, metrics and strategic planning.  

From 1971 until 1992, he was Chairman and CEO of HRN, a strategy consulting firm whose clients included leading global companies in all major industries. He successfully completed complex reengineering and strategy development assignments for major companies. Clients included: Citibank, Exxon USA, Monsanto, Honeywell, TRW, AT&T, Sara Lee Corporation, Hershey Foods, Philip Morris, Nestlé USA, General Motors, Prudential, Bank of America, US West, Ameritech, Raytheon, Equitable, Ford Motor Company, MetLife and Bell Atlantic, among many others.

He has written several management books including Leveraging the Impact of Public Affairs, a 400-page handbook on maximizing the benefits to be achieved from government affairs, corporate communications, issues management and other stakeholder disciplines.

His articles on law department strategic management topics have been published in Chief Legal Executive, Corporate Counsel, Diversity & the Bar, Corporate Legal Times, Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, National Law Journal, Texas Lawyer and PR Quarterly  magazines.

Steve served a member of the Benefits Committee of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund.  From 1998 to 2000, he served as chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) and was significantly involved in MCCA's programs.  He also served as Chairman of the National Corporate Advisory Committee for Hands Across America.

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