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Steven P. Handler is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm’s Chicago office. As partner in the Trial Department, Steven handles a wide range of commercial litigation matters, including product liability/mass torts, antitrust, securities, intellectual property, environmental, consumer fraud, construction and professional design malpractice, and employment discrimination.
A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Steven has had extensive trial experience in both jury and non-jury cases. He is a member of the bar of the State of Illinois; the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois (including its trial bar), the Northern District of Indiana, the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and the Eastern District of Michigan; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th, 6th, 7th, 10th, and District of Columbia Circuits; and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Steven formerly served in the criminal and special prosecutions divisions of the United States Attorney’s Office in Chicago. Since leaving that office, he has defended individuals and companies in white collar criminal cases. One of these defenses included the corrugated container criminal antitrust case, one of the largest antitrust criminal prosecutions ever brought by the Department of Justice. He represented one of the nine defendants who went to trial in that case and were acquitted after a three-and-one-half-month trial.
Steven has extensive experience in alternate dispute resolution. For example, he represented a national engineering firm in a summary jury trial that ultimately led to settlement of a $380 million damage claim relating to a nuclear power plant near Cincinnati.
During law school, Steven was topics and comment editor of the Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif.
Education:
University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1971
University of Michigan, B.A., 1968 | 