Practice areas
Bar & Court Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Education
The Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2014
Allegheny College, B.A. (English), magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 2009
Professional & Community Activities
New York State Bar Association, Environmental & Energy Law Section
Monroe County Bar Association, Environmental Law Committee
Monroe County Bar Association, Leadership Academy Inductee 2023
Delaware Bar Association
Buffalo Orienteering Club, Board of Directors
Steve concentrates his practice on environmental litigation and has broad experience litigating a wide variety of environmental matters including toxic tort defense, administrative appeals of agency permitting and enforcement actions, defense against citizen suits under federal and state laws, and cost recovery actions. Steve has litigated numerous matters relating to large or controversial infrastructure or development projects, which frequently involve litigation across multiple forums – state, federal, and local – and before administrative agencies. He has extensive experience in administrative litigation, including challenges brought against federal agencies under the Administrative Procedure Act, as well as challenges to agency action before the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board, the Delaware River Basin Commission, the Delaware Environmental Appeals Board, and the Delaware Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board, as well as under Article 78 in New York.
Steve is a magna cum laude graduate of The Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law. During law school, he also served as a federal judicial extern for the Honorable D. Brooks Smith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and as a judicial intern for the Honorable Pamela A. Ruest on the Centre County Court of Common Pleas.
Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New York, Steve works out of Western New York where he frequently explores the outdoors and cheers for the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres. He currently serves on the board of directors for the Buffalo Orienteering Club.
Representative examples of Steve's experience include the following:
- defense of pipeline company in citizen suit under the federal Clean Water Act brought by environmental group seeking to compel company to obtain NPDES permit for pipeline project, resulting in dismissal of case on summary judgment and precedent that oil and gas pipelines are exempt from NPDES stormwater permitting (Delaware Riverkeeper Network et al. v. Sunoco Pipeline, L.P., Dkt. No. CIV-18-2447 (E.D. Pa., April 16, 2020) (Diamond, J.)
- defense of plastics fabricator in putative class action in federal court alleging personal injuries and property damage arising out of a warehouse fire, obtaining complete dismissal of all claims asserted against the company with prejudice, including novel failure-to-warn/products liability claims (Callihan v. Surnaik Holdings of WV, LLC, et al., C.A. No. 2:17-cv-04386) (S.D. W. Va. Dec. 3, 2018) (Johnston, C.J.)
Honors & Awards
- Best Lawyers® "Ones to Watch" listing (commercial litigation), since 2021. The Best Lawyers list is issued by Woodward/White Inc. Click here to view the selection methodology.
Pennsylvania Super Lawyers “Rising Star” listing (environmental litigation), since 2018. The Super Lawyers list is issued by Thomson Reuters. Click here to view the selection methodology.
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Special Alerts
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- April 2, 2020COVID-19 Update
- January 21, 2020
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- January 21, 2020
- January 14, 2019
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Articles
- December 14, 2022MGKF Litigation Blog
- May 9, 2022MGKF Litigation Blog
- February 28, 2022MGKF Litigation Blog
- November 3, 2021MGKF Litigation Blog
- September 30, 2021MGKF Litigation Blog
- October 22, 2020MGKF Litigation Blog
- August 4, 2020MGKF Litigation Blog
- April 21, 2020MGKF Litigation Blog
- January 27, 2020MGKF Litigation Blog
- October 14, 2019MGKF Litigation Blog
- August 16, 2019MGKF Litigation Blog
- July 18, 2019MGKF Litigation Blog
- March 5, 2019MGKF Litigation Blog
- February 26, 2019The Legal Intelligencer
- February 11, 2019MGKF Litigation Blog
- June 20, 2018MGKF Litigation Blog
- March 26, 2018MGKF Litigation Blog
- February 27, 2018The Legal Intelligencer
- November 13, 2017MGKF Litigation Blog
- September 28, 2017MGKF Litigation Blog
- July 30, 2017MGKF Litigation Blog
- June 8, 2017MGKF Litigation Blog
- May 12, 2017The Legal Intelligencer
- March 10, 2017MGKF Litigation Blog
- February 6, 2017MGKF Litigation Blog
- November 3, 2016The Claims As Pled Were Time-BarredMGKF Litigation Blog
- October 4, 2016MGKF Litigation Blog
Podcasts
Press Releases
- August 17, 2023
- May 22, 2023Managing Partner Carol F. McCabe included in Top 100 Pennsylvania listing. Other partners included in additional top lists.
- January 10, 2023
- December 20, 2022
- November 3, 2022
- August 19, 2022
- June 2, 2022
- Bruce Katcher Named the Best Lawyers® 2021 Environmental Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Cherry Hill, NJAugust 20, 202016 Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox Attorneys Included in Best Lawyers 2021 and Four Named to Inaugural Ones to Watch List
- June 8, 2020Gotanda, McCabe, Moshang and Schiller Included in Top 50 Women Pennsylvania Listing
- April 22, 2020
- April 21, 2020
- October 3, 2019
- May 23, 2019Fox and McCabe Included on Top 100 List for Philadelphia; McCabe and Moshang Included in Top 50 Women Pennsylvania
- May 21, 2018McCabe, Moshang and Schiller Included in Top 50: 2018 Women Pennsylvania Super Lawyers; McCabe Included on Top 100 List for Philadelphia
Seminars & Speaking Engagements
"Placing Your Company on (Litigation) Hold" presented at the Association of Corporate Counsel's In-house Counsel Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 20, 2023
Penn State Law's Environmental Law Society's Career Panel, presented virtually, February 22, 2023
"Pennsylvania Water Laws and Regulations: Compliance and Enforcement," a HalfMoon Education webinar, April 28, 2022
"PFAS: A Family of Emerging Contaminants" presented at the Delaware State Bar Association, Wilmington, DE, May 30, 2019
"Putting Your Best Face Forward: Managing Your Social Media Presence" presented at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's A Day on Real Estate, Philadelphia, PA, August 1, 2019
"Putting Your Best Face Forward: Managing Your Social Media Presence" presented at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Real Estate Institute, Philadelphia, PA, December 7, 2018
"Putting Your Best Face Forward: Managing Your Social Media Presence" presented at the Philadelphia Bar Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 29, 2017
"Putting Your Best Face Forward: Managing Your Social Media Presence" presented at the Kentucky Mineral Law Conference, Lexington,KY, October 18, 2017
"Putting Your Best Face Forward: Managing Your Social Media Presence" presented at the 9th Annual Oil & Gas Law Colloquium, Washington, PA, June 21, 2017
"What Did I Say? The Intersection of Social Media and Employment Law" presented at the Penn Law Black Law Students Association's 29th Annual Sadie T. M. Alexander Conference - Social Media and the Law, Philadelphia, PA, February 11, 2017
"Putting Your Best Face Forward: Managing Your Company's Online Presence" presented at the Association of Corporate Counsel Greater Philadelphia Chapter - Ethics & Compliance Institute, Philadelphia, PA, December 1, 2016
Media Coverage
- January 27, 2020Law360
- September 24, 2019Law360
- May 23, 2019MontCo.Today