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About Steve Herman
Steve Herman was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he attended Isidore Newman School. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College, where he was awarded Citations of Excellence in the study of Milton and Shakespeare, and won the Eleanor Frost Playwriting Competition with his one-act play, The Phoenix Sleeps Tonight. Herman was then named Order of the Coif at Tulane Law School, where he graduated, Magna Cum Laude, in 1994.
After graduating from Tulane, Herman clerked for Justice Harry T. Lemmon of the Louisiana Supreme Court, and developed a broad civil practice with the Herman Herman & Katz law firm. The recipient of numerous professional appointments and accolades, he teaches complex litigation at both Tulane and Loyola Law Schools, and served, among other things, as Lead Counsel in the BP Oil Spill/Deepwater Horizon Litigation.
In addition to America and the Law, Herman is the author of six novels, The Gordian Knot, The Sign of Four, A Day in the Life of Timothy Stone, My Life As a Spy, and the recently published titles Broken Lighthouse and Shots Across the Bow. He maintains a What’s New in the Courts law blog at www.gravierhouse.com.
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