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Biography
Steve joined Hahn Loeser in 2008 as a partner in the Litigation Area. He also is a member of the Area's Appellate Practice Group.
He is admitted to practice law in Ohio, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh and DC Circuits, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
Steve joined the firm after six years in the Appellate Section of the Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, in Washington, DC. In that capacity he briefed and argued civil and criminal antitrust, administrative law, and immigration appeals in the federal courts of appeals. Steve was the lead Antitrust Division attorney in two U.S. Supreme Court cases, F. Hoffman-LaRoche, Ltd. v. Empagran, S.A., 542 U.S. 155 (2004) and Illinois Tool Works Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc., 547 U.S. 28 (2006), and has extensive experience in briefing Supreme Court appeals. Steve has special expertise in the extraterritorial application of the U.S. antitrust laws.
Prior to his government service, Steve was a trial and appellate litigator serving as a key member of teams that: won two multi-million dollar jury verdicts against The Walt Disney Company and ABC Radio Networks for breach of contract and misappropriation of trade secrets; won a bench trial judgment for a British airplane manufacturer against the U.S. Air Force in government contract litigation; successfully defended the International Paper Company in class action and individual toxic tort cases in multiple federal and state courts; and successfully defended Westinghouse in class action age discrimination litigation stemming from a series of reductions-in-force.
Notable Recent Representations
1. Successfully defended antitrust criminal appeals by corporate executives seeking to overturn jury verdicts or sentences:
- United States v. Beaver (7th Cir. 2008)
- United States v. Rose, 449 F.3d 627 (5th Cir. 2006)
- United States v. Anderson, 326 F.3d 1319 (11th Cir. 2003)
3. Argued for the United States in United States v. LSL Biotechnologies, 379 F.3d 672 (9th Cir. 2004).
Education
Harvard Law School |
J.D., cum laude |
1989 |
London School of Economics and Political Science |
M.Sc., with distinction |
1986 |
Princeton University |
A.B., summa cum laude, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs |
1985 |
Associations
American Bar Association Member, Section of Litigation |
Harvard Law Review Editor |
News & Publications
| 8/26/2010 |
"Keeping Watch: Emerging Developments for Litigators, Summer 2010," Steven J. Mintz, Esq., Litigation News |
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| 4/1/2010 |
"Keeping Watch: Emerging Developments for Litigators, Spring 2010," Steven J. Mintz, Esq., Litigation News |
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| 1/19/2010 |
Steven J. Mintz quoted in, "Q&A With Hahn Loeser's Steven Mintz", Appellate Law360 |
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| 8/26/2009 |
"Keeping Watch: Emerging Developments for Litigators, Summer 2009," Steven J. Mintz, Esq., Litigation News |
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| 5/27/2009 |
"Keeping Watch: Emerging Developments for Litigators, Spring 2009," Steven J. Mintz, Esq., ABA Section of Litigation's Litigation News |
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