Education:
B.A., University of California, Irvine - Political Science, 2002
J.D., University of California, Davis - 2007
Biography:
Stephen M. Siptroth joined Herum Crabtree Brown in 2007 after interning with the firm during his second summer in law school. He is an associate practicing primarily in the firm’s Natural Resources and Public Agency practice groups
Stephen is a graduate of the University of California, Davis King Hall School of Law. While at King Hall, Stephen served as Editor in Chief of the U.C. Davis Journal of Juvenile Law & Policy and was a member of Advocates for the Rights of Children. In 2006, he teamed with Erica Sorosky at the Whittier National Juvenile Law Moot Court Competition, earning Fifth Place overall. While pursuing his formal legal education, Stephen clerked for private firms and solo practitioners, including criminal defense and workers compensation attorneys, and a premier union-side labor law firm.
Prior to attending law school, Stephen worked for two years as a Student Affairs Officer and Academic Counselor at the University of California, Irvine. During this time period he also performed contract work, including serving as a statistical evaluator and consultant for the Office of Assessment and Accountability at the Orange County Department of Education.
Stephen graduated cum laude with Honors in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine. At graduation he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and awarded the Alumni Award for Outstanding Honors Thesis. Stephen grew up in Escondido, California and is a graduate of San Pasqual High School.
Articles:
Stephen M. Siptroth, Welcoming All to a Table of Plenty: The Free Trade Area and the Bolivarian Alternative as Competing Means of Economic Integration in the Americas, UCLA J. Int’l L. & Foreign Aff. (accepted for publication, Winter 2008).
Stephen M. Siptroth, Forming the Human Person: Can the Seminary Model Save the Legal Profession, B.Y.U. Educ. & L. J. 181 (Winter 2007).
Paul J. Levesque & Stephen M. Siptroth, The Correlation Between the Political and Ecclesial Ideologies of Catholic Priests, 67 Soc. Of Religion 419 (Winter, 2005) (peer reviewed academic journal).
Case Spotlight: A.M. v. Butler, 360 F.3d 787 (7th Cir. 2004), 9 U.C. Davis J. Juv. L. & Pol’y 217, 434 (2005).
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