Steven J. Hyman was one of the founding partners of Leavy Rosensweig & Hyman before joining McLaughlin & Stern in 2000 where he is the co-chair of the litigation department.

Mr. Hyman has extensive experience in litigation covering a broad cross-section of legal issues. He began his career as an attorney in the civil rights movement and criminal defense. He has been counsel to defendants in a capital case and has argued in the Supreme Court of the United States. More recently, Mr. Hyman has done extensive work in the fields of commercial law litigation and intellectual property, as well as representing both plaintiff and defendant in employment discrimination cases. Two of his cases, Flynn v. Goldman Sachs and Cherry v. Coudert Brothers, were extensively reported on and covered by Court TV.

Mr. Hyman is a graduate of Lafayette College and Columbia Law School, where he graduated cum laude. He is a past chairperson of the Civil Rights Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association and currently is president of the board of directors of the New York Civil Liberties Union. Mr. Hyman is a former associate adjunct professor of law at New York University School of Law, where he taught military justice and the war powers, and has been an instructor on behalf of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.