Steve Churchill
Steve Churchill
Lecturer on Law
Director, Employment Law Clinic
2020-2021
Biography
Mr. Churchill is a social entrepreneur and public-interest lawyer who has been handling employment law cases for over 25 years. He is a co-founder and principal of Fair Work, P.C., a public-interest law firm that represents workers in individual and class action litigation. Prior to launching Fair Work, he was a partner at Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C., where he represented workers in individual and class action cases in Massachusetts and beyond. Before that, he was a partner at a Boston law firm and directed the Employment Civil Rights Clinic at the Legal Services Center of HLS. He is a board member of Lawyers for Civil Rights, and a co-founder and board member of Fair Employment Project, Inc., a non-profit that seeks to deliver legal information and resources to victims of workplace discrimination.While a student at HLS, he served as Executive Director of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.
Areas of Interest
- Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
- Clinical Legal Education
- Law and Social Change
- Law of the Workplace
Bar Admissions
- Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts, United States (1993)
- 1st Circuit (1994)
- U.S. Supreme Court (2019)
Education History
- J.D. (cum laude) Harvard Law School, 1993
- B.A. (with distinction) Stanford University, 1988
Current Courses
- Employment Discrimination, Spring 2021
- Employment Law Clinic, Fall 2020
- Employment Law Clinic, Spring 2021
- Employment Law Workshop: Advocacy Skills, Fall 2020
- Employment Law Workshop: Strategies for Social Change, Spring 2021