He previously worked at the Bloomington office of Indiana Legal Services, Inc., where he started advocating on behalf of low-income homeowners in 2005 with a two-year Skadden fellowship. He is a contributing author to the NCLC’s Foreclosures and Mortgage Servicing manual on issues related to FHA-insured loans and he contributed a chapter on government insured loans to Ohio Consumer Law (2016–17 ed.). Steve is a 2005 graduate of the Indiana University School of Law where he graduated magna cum laude and was the Executive Notes & Comments Editor of the Indiana Law Journal.