A Conversation with Steve Sanders

A Conversation with Steve Sanders
Friday, November 20, 2009
8:30 - 10:30 a.m., Tisdale Lounge, 2nd Floor
Continental Breakfast Will Be Served.

Steve Sanders is a fourth year associate at the Chicago office of the law firm Mayer Brown.  Steve concentrates his practice on appellate litigation and has briefed cases and authored petitions to the US Supreme Court, three state supreme courts, four US Courts of Appeals, and various federal district courts.  He has also presented oral arguments in the US Supreme Court, the Illinois Supreme Court, and the 7th and 8th Circuit Courts of Appeal.  Recently, Steve authored a successful petition for certiorari, briefed, and argued in the US Supreme Court the case of  Pottawattamie County v. McGhee, which presented novel issues about the scope of immunity for state criminal prosecutors.

Steve is also a prominent advocate for the rights of LGBT Americans.  His activities in this regard include extensive writing and lecturing in defense of same-sex marriage, including service as an amicus curiae in Varnum v. Brien, in which the Iowa Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the state's statutory prohibition on same-sex marriage violated the Iowa constitution.  Steve also served on the LGBT steering and policy committee for the Obama for America presidential campaign.

Please drop by and meet Steve to ask him any questions you might have about large firm practice in Chicago, appellate practice, the Pottawattamie case, his LGBT advocacy, or any other questions you may have.