Steve is a Chicago based attorney who is nationally recognized for his representation of whistleblowers.

Since 2001, Steve’s law firm, Cohen Law Group, has been representing private citizen whistleblowers that uncover fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer-funded programs. He has prosecuted dozens of cases of fraud involving health care, government contracting, and federally insured financial institutions that has returned more than a half-billion dollars to states and federally funded programs.

Since 2009, Steve has become involved in producing social impact documentaries. Steve has helped finance and co-executive produce dozens of films including Hell and Back Again, Fambul Tok, Words of Witness, The Island President, How to Survive a Plague, The Crash Reel, Pandora’s Promise and Inequality for All and Our Nixon.

In 2012, President Obama appointed Steve to the Board of Trustees of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, an independent federal agency that provides scholarships to students seeking professional careers in public service.

Steve sits on a number of academic Boards. Steve is a Trustee for Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin. He is also a Trustee of the TCS Education System, a network of independent graduate and professional schools.

Steve also serves on a variety of non-profit boards, including the Mikva Challenge, the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law, and the President’s Counsel of Taxpayers Against Fraud.