Steven Brown is a business counselor and litigator. Steven practices primarily in the areas of employment, corporate, and healthcare law. He regularly counsels his clients on their day-to-day to crisis-level legal operations, including corporate governance matters, COVID-19 guidelines, and responses, restrictive covenants and trade secret preservation, employee handbooks, executive and professional employment agreements, and employee severance, discipline, and termination. Steven also serves as general counsel to multiple medical practices, including one of the largest medical group practices in the region.
Steven’s litigation practice focuses on general state and federal civil matters including non-compete and trade secret disputes; wage and hour individual, class, and collective actions; breach of contract; and business ownership and dissolution disputes. He also advises and defends businesses in EEOC, MCCR, and state and federal Department of Labor investigations and audits.
Steven practices primarily out of the firm’s Annapolis office and lives on the Western Shore with his wife and kids. Steven earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh and graduated from the Florida State University College of Law with honors.
Speaking Engagements
- SMART Alcohol Awareness: Liquor License Compliance
- Queen Anne’s County Liquor Board & Chesapeake Bay Beach Club, June 2025
- Understanding the Trump Administration’s Employment-Law Related Executive Orders
- Maryland State Bar Association Virtual Lunch & Learn, April 2025
- Maryland Legislative Impacts on HR Law
- New Maryland Employment Laws 2024: Pre-Employment
- Anne Arundel Chamber of Commerce Human Resources Webinar, July 2024
- Restrictive Covenant Update
- Maryland State Bar Association, 2024 Legal Summit
- Most Interesting Cases of 2023
- Anne Arundel Bar Association, March 2024
- Weed in the Workplace: High Time to Consider Updating Workplace Drug Policies
- Talbot County Chamber of Commerce, August 2023
- Returning to Work in the Coronavirus Era: Round Two
- Trade Secrets: What’s Fair Game in the Employment Relationship?
- Maryland State Bar Association, 2022 Legal Summit
- Returning to Work in the Coronavirus Age
- The Maryland Small Business Development Center, June 2020
- Dorchester County Chamber of Commerce, May 2020
- Talbot County Chamber of Commerce, May 2020
- Maryland Healthy Working Families Act
- Anne Arundel County Chamber of Commerce, February 2018.
- Wage and Hour Seminar
- William Paca House, September 2018
- Best Practices for Avoiding Wage and Hour Lawsuits
- Northern Anne Arundel Chamber of Commerce, November 2016
Recognitions
- Selected to the 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 Rising Stars list (Employment & Labor)
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America: Litigation – Labor and Employment, 2023, 2024, and 2025
- What’s Up? Anne Arundel County & Prince George’s County Leading Lawyer: Administrative Law/Liquor Laws/Hearings; Employment Law; 2024-2025
- What’s Up? Anne Arundel County & Central Maryland Leading Lawyer: Administrative Law/Liquor Laws/Hearings, 2022-2023
- What’s Up? Media: Up & Coming Lawyers 2021
- What’s Up? Anne Arundel County & Central Maryland Leading Lawyer: Employment Law, 2020-2021
- What’s Up? Anne Arundel County & Central Maryland Leading Lawyer: Employment Law, 2018-2019
Bar/Court Admissions
- Maryland
- District Court for the District of Maryland
- District Court for the District of Columbia
- Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit