Steve Hirsch
Steve Hirsch is a partner at the Complex Appellate Litigation Group in San Francisco.
Over a 40-year career, Steve has successfully briefed and argued cases spanning a vast range of legal fields, including complex business and contract disputes; arbitration; intellectual property; antitrust/unfair competition; class actions; anti-discrimination; legal-malpractice defense; and First Amendment, constitutional, and administrative law. His clients have included major corporations such as Google, Intel, Genentech, Qualcomm, Coinbase, Lyft, Electronic Arts, and AT&T, as well as prominent law firms and individuals in civil and criminal cases.
He uses his legal skills to protect democratic norms and institutions and voting rights. In 2016, he served as a Regional Director for Voter Protection for the Clinton campaign in Ohio. He has worked extensively with Protect Democracy, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), and States United Democracy Center, writing briefs for those organizations in numerous matters bearing on the health of our democracy.
In that capacity, he has written amici briefs for such legal luminaries as Laurence Tribe, Erwin Chemerinsky, Geoffrey Stone, Lee Bollinger, Martha Minow, Floyd Abrams, and Bruce Ackerman.
Steve has been named California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) by California Lawyer Magazine and San Francisco Appellate Practice Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America. The Bar Association of San Francisco has presented him with its Award of Merit and the Minority Bar Coalition of the San Francisco Bay Area has presented him with its Unity Award. He has been listed as a Northern California Super Lawyer for decades and by Best Lawyers in America since 2010. He also was elected by the judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to serve as an Appellate Lawyer Representative to the Circuit’s Judicial Conference.
He is President of the Board of California Lawyers for the Arts and formerly served as a member of the Boards of the Bar Association of San Francisco and BASF’s Justice and Diversity Center.
Steve also obtained a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable I. Leo Glasser of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
