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New York
Tel: 1.212.326.3795
Fax: 1.212.755.7306
Email: scbennett@jonesday.com

Profile | Experience | Publications | Speaking Engagements

Related Services

• Trial Practice
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution & Mediation
  • Class Action Litigation
  • Commercial Disputes
  • Construction Litigation
  • Consumer Fraud & Warranty Litigation
  • Insurance Coverage
• International Litigation & Arbitration
• Intellectual Property
• Construction
• Corporate Compliance Programs
• e-Discovery
• Privacy & Data Security

Steve Bennett's practice at Jones Day focuses on domestic and international commercial litigation and arbitration, including cases involving bankruptcy, construction, corporate, energy, insurance, intellectual property, securities, and other disputes. Representative clients in recent public matters include: American Electric Power, Bermuda Commercial Bank, B.F. Goodrich, Cablevision, Clark Construction, Cogswell Realty, Continental Airlines, Credit Communal de Belgique, Dana Corp., Dollar Rent A Car, Endesa, Federated Department Stores, Gerhard Schubert GmbH, Harry Winston, IBM, InterContinental Hotels, Loewen Group, Lucent Technologies, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Nextel, Parsons Main, PepsiCo, Promethean, R.J. Reynolds, and Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français.

Steve is chair of the Firm's e-Discovery Committee and a founding member of the Sedona Conference Working Group on International E-Discovery. He also has been an active member of the Firm's construction practice team and is responsible for training litigation associates in the New York Office. He co-teaches a course on advanced civil procedure (e-discovery) at Rutgers Law School and previously taught a course in domestic and international commercial arbitration at Brooklyn Law School and a course on privacy law at Hunter College. He is a member of the Large Case Advisory Committee for the American Arbitration Association and a member of the ADR Subcommittee of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Civil Litigation.

Steve regularly speaks to a wide array of groups for CLE and other purposes. He has written more than 150 articles on a variety of topics, including: arbitration, bankruptcy, construction contracts, electronic discovery, ethics, insurance, international dispute resolution, mediation, online contracting, privacy, and civil RICO. His book, Arbitration: Essential Concepts (American Lawyer Media) was published in 2002.

Steve writes a continuing column, "Arbitration," with Professor Samuel Estreicher, which has appeared in the New York Law Journal since 2004, and his continuing professional development column, "Firm Talk," has appeared on NLJ.com since 2004.

Steve is currently working on a book for Aspatore/West on privacy law and a book for AAA on commercial arbitration rules.

Listed in New York Super Lawyers for 2008

New York; U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of New York; and U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Sixth, and D.C. Circuits

New York University (J.D. cum laude 1984; Senior Book Review Editor, Law Review); Macalester College (B.A. summa cum laude 1979; Phi Beta Kappa)

Chief, Tax and Bankruptcy Unit, Civil Division (1992-1994) and Assistant U.S. Attorney, Civil Division (1988-1992), Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York

Law Clerk to Hon. Carl McGowan, senior circuit judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1985-1986)