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Steve Obus, a partner in Proskauer's Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department resident in New York, has had extensive experience in both the public and private sectors litigating significant cases. Prior to coming to the Firm, Steve was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he served as Chief of the Civil Rights Unit, Chief Appellate Attorney and Chief of the Civil Division. As Chief of the Civil Division, Steve supervised a staff of 48 civil litigators who represented the United States in a broad range of matters, including major constitutional and law enforcement-related litigation such as the government's civil RICO action against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Since joining Proskauer in 1990, Steve has tried numerous cases in the federal and state courts, and before arbitrators; including the defense, through a six-week jury trial, of a massive federal securities fraud class action; and the prosecution, through a three-week jury trial, of a fraud action against a major insurer. He has handled a wide variety of commercial matters, including antitrust claims, insurance coverage claims, securities claims, derivative claims, false advertising claims and employment-related claims, as well as many other contract, fraud, defamation and unfair competition matters. Steve also has frequently represented health care providers in cases that have presented issues ranging from the validity of exclusive contracts with specialty practice groups to a comatose patient's "right to die." Among the many other matters that Steve has litigated at Proskauer are the prosecution of the Klinghoffer family's lawsuit against the Palestine Liberation Organization arising out of the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise liner, and the defense of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center against a constitutional challenge to the overhaul of the Center's labor system, which was undertaken in connection with an effort to rid the Center of the influence of organized crime.

As an Assistant United States Attorney from 1980 to 1990, Steve represented the United States at trial and on appeal in numerous cases, including the New York litigation challenging the reapportionment of Congress based on the 1980 Census. On behalf of the Board of Judges of the Southern District of New York, Steve successfully defended against a First Amendment challenge by a television network to the federal rule prohibiting the broadcasting of judicial proceedings.

In addition to practicing law, Steve has served as an instructor at the United States Attorney General's Advocacy Institute and at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (Northeast Region), and has lectured on federal appellate advocacy for the New York State Bar Association.

Steve is a graduate of Rutgers College and Columbia University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in the courts of the State of New York, as well as in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the United States Circuit Courts for the Second and Fourth Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court.