USS JOSEPH HEWES (FF1078); Charleston, South Carolina; and Atsugi, Japan. He has been awarded the Navy Achievement Medal and has received commendations from various Japanese Government agencies.

During his tour in Charleston, Steve was assigned duties as a trial counsel, prosecuting and defending numerous general and special courts-martial. His cases included contested capital trials. Steve also was assigned as a member of the base commander's personal legal staff dealing with a broad range of civil and criminal matters. Upon being assigned to the U.S. Naval Facility in Atsugi, Japan, Steve assumed duties as the primary legal advisor for the base commander. He was designated by the U.S. Ambassador to Japan to act as an official liaison to the Japanese government on criminal and civil matters affecting the two countries. Additionally, he assumed duties as the senior watch officer for the base.

Upon returning home to Cincinnati from the Navy, Steve initially worked with another firm before coming to Young, Reverman & Mazzei Co., L.P.A. Joining the firm in December 1987, Steve began to develop an active and large workers' compensation practice serving injured workers. In 1989, he was admitted to practice in Kentucky, and began also representing inuured workers there. Drawing upon his extensive trial experience from his Naval Service, Steve also began litigating personal injury and worker's compensation trials. Additionally, Steve has developed active medical malpractice, nursing home neglect, and social security/disability practices.

Steve is licensed to appear in all State and Federal courts in Ohio and Kentucky, and he has been trained as a civil mediator and serves as an arbitration panel chairman for the local courts.

In addition to providing quality representation, Steve is active with the Ohio State and Kentucky Bar Associations as well as the Ohio Association for Justice and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Steve serves on the Ohio State Bar Association workers' compensation and unauthorized practice of law committees, and he has been a frequent seminar speaker. He has chaired the Ohio State Bar Association Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee and has testified before legislative committees representing the Ohio State Bar Assoication. Steve has been featured as a guest columnist in local and statewide newspapers, and he has been published in the local bar journal.

1995 brought another achievement to Steve's record when he was approached by the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine to join the faculty to work with the residents training through the Environmental Medicine Department. In his capacity as a Volunteer Assistant Professor of Medicine, Steve supervises residents learning the legal ramifications of the practice of medicine.