Steven R. Becker

Practice Areas

• Intellectual Property, Entertainment, and Technology Protection
  • Litigation, Enforcement, and Policing
    • Copyright Litigation
    • Trade Secrets Litigation
    • Trademark Litigation
• Labor and Employment
  • Employment Litigation
  • Employment Relations, Policies, and Regulatory Practice
    • Covenants Not to Compete and Trade Secrets
    • Employee Discipline and Termination
    • Employment Policies and Manuals
    • Equal Employment Opportunity
    • Family and Medical Leave Act
    • Wage and Hour/Fair Labor Standards Act
    • Workplace Harassment, Including Sexual Harassment
• Litigation
  • Appellate Practice
  • Business and Commercial
  • Constitutional Law and Media
  • Employment Litigation
  • Financial Institutions Litigation
  • Insurance and Insurance Coverage
  • Intellectual Property
    • Patent and Trade Secrets Litigation
    • Trademark and Copyright Litigation
  • Professional Liability and Discipline
    • Attorneys

Industries

• Insurance

Education

• The George Washington University Law School, J.D., 1987
• Lafayette College, A.B., 1984, Honors in Government

Bar & Court Admissions

• District of Columbia
• Maryland
• Virginia
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Mr. Becker is a partner in the Vorys Washington, D.C. office and a member of the litigation group.  His practice focuses on professional liability defense, legal malpractice defense, attorney discipline and broker/financial institution arbitrations.  He also specializes in non-union employment law. 

Career highlights include:

• Successfully expanding the scope of the absolute privilege in the District of Columbia to protect lawyers in pre-litigation communications with prospective clients.  
• Obtaining a reversal of a multi-million dollar jury award against a park operator and clarification of the application of a Maryland procedural “trap for the unwary.” 

Mr. Becker is a member of the American Bar Association, the Maryland Bar Association, the Virginia Bar Association and the District of Columbia Bar. Mr. Becker is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland.

Mr. Becker presented updates on employment law at the 2000 NAMIC Property Casualty Conference.

Mr. Becker received his J.D. from The George Washington University Law School where he was on the National Moot Court Team and was awarded the Van Vleck Moot Court Award.  Mr. Becker received his A.B. with honors in government from Lafayette College where he was a recipient of the Chase Award in Government & Law.

Professional and Community Activities

• Congregation B’nai Tzedek, Board Member, 2007

Publications

• “Am I My Brother’s Keeper?  D.C. Circuit says ‘yes,'” American Bar Association Lawyers Professional Liability eAdvisory, July 2004
• “AIDS in the Workplace,” Federal Bar Journal, 1988 (Contributor)