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
- Understanding the Trump Administration’s Employment-Law Related Executive Orders
- Maryland Legislative Impacts on HR Law
- New Maryland Employment Laws 2024: Pre-Employment
- Restrictive Covenant Update
- Most Interesting Cases of 2023
- Weed in the Workplace: High Time to Consider Updating Workplace Drug Policies
- Returning to Work in the Coronavirus Era: Round Two
- Trade Secrets: What’s Fair Game in the Employment Relationship?
- Returning to Work in the Coronavirus Age
- Maryland Healthy Working Families Act
- Wage and Hour Seminar
- Best Practices for Avoiding Wage and Hour Lawsuits
Recognitions
- Selected to Super Lawyers® (2026)
- Selected to Rising Stars® (2019-2025)
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America: Litigation – Labor and Employment, 2023-2025
- What’s Up? Anne Arundel County & Central Maryland 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 Leading Lawyer: Employment Law, 2020-2021
- What’s Up? Anne Arundel County Leading Lawyer: Employment Law, 2018-2019
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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