Attorney Profiles

Steven Feder heads the Feder Law Firm. Feder brings a prosecutor's mentality to civil litigation, and has recovered multimillion-dollar awards for a number of clients. AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, Feder is an National Association of Securities Defense (NASD) panel chair, frequent lecturer on class actions, former Career Prosecutor, former Chairman of the Colorado Bar Association (CBA) Subcommittee on Securities Litigation, and lead counsel in over 100 jury trials. The Feder Law Firm's motto is "fighting the good fight" in all types of settings: business disputes, international price fixing schemes, shareholder derivative suits, and individual representation. The firm often takes cases with a part hourly and part contingency fee arrangement.

Areas of Practice

• Antitrust Law
• Arbitration
• Business Disputes
• Class Actions
• Closely Held Businesses
• Complex Litigation
• Consumer Protection
• Contracts
• Criminal Fraud
• Criminal Law
• Debtor/Creditor
• Deceptive Trade Practices
• Directors' & Officers' Liability
• Dissolution
• Federal
• Federal Appellate Practice
• Federal Trial Practice
• Franchising
• Joint Ventures
• Legal Malpractice
• Lemon Law
• Litigation & Appeals
• Other Professionals Malpractice
• Parole & Probation
• RICO Act
• Securities Fraud & Insider Trading
• Shareholders' Rights
• State Appellate Practice
• State Trial Practice
• Trade Secrets
• White Collar Crimes

Litigation Percentage

• 85% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions

• Colorado, 1985
• U.S. District Court District of Colorado, 1985
• Illinois, 1986
• U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit, 1986
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1993
• U.S. District Court District of Connecticut, 1993
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1997

Education

• University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder, Colorado, 1985
  J.D.
  Honors: Order of the Coif (Top 5%)
  
  
• Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1982
  B.S.
  Honors: Beta Alpha Psi (Accounting Honorary Society)
  Major: Accounting
  
  

Representative Clients

• Consumer Class Actions (AT&T, Sprint, Airtouch, 4X Made Easy)
• Franchisors (Quiznos, 123 Fit)
• Individuals
• Judges (The Hon. Peter H. Ney, Colorado Court of Appeals)
• Legal Malpractice Cases (Handyman Matters, Mr. Steak)
• Legal Malpractice Cases on behalf of Franchisors Woody's Hot Dogs
• Local Builders (Stoneridge Homes, Barrett Homes, Kane Concrete)
• Shareholder Derivative Actions (Denver Management Group)
• Shareholder Derivative Actions (Patent Enforcement Fund, Qwest)
• Travel (Navigant International, Destination Services)
• White Collar Criminal Defense (Kelli Small)
• White Collar Criminal Defense (Will Hoover, Jason Sharkey)
• Wine Industry (Classic Wines, Dalla Terra Winery)

Honors and Awards

• Colorado Super Lawyer, 2007

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Denver Bar Association
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• Arapahoe Bar Association
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• Colorado Bar Association
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• Illinois Bar Association
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• Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
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• American Association for Justice
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• Colorado Criminal Defense Bar
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• Federal Criminal Justice Act Panel
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• NASD Panel of Arbitrators
  Member & Panel Chair
  
  
• Colorado Bar Association's Securities Litigation Subsection, 1997 - 2002
  Chairman
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Smith McCullough P.C., Shareholder, 1999 - 2000
• Bader, Villanueva & Feder, P.C., Partner, 1990 - 1998
• District Attorney Office, 18th Judicial District of Colorado, Career Prosecutor & Deputy District Attorney, 1985 - 1990

Birth Information

• May 17, 1960, Passiac, New Jersey, United States of America