Stephen M. Pincus is an attorney focusing his work int the areas of employment law, employee benefits, class actions and civil rights litigation.

Stephen is an honors graduate from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (B.A., 1989). He received his law degree (with honors) in 1993 from the University of Maryland School of Law. During law school, he was recognized for his work in the school's nationally-ranked clinical law program and clerked at the Legal Aid Bureau and the Maryland Disability Law Center.

Following graduation from law school, Stephen was selected by Yale Law School to be a Robert M. Cover Fellow in Public Interest Law. As a Cover Fellow, Stephen co-directed a legal clinic at Yale that served the needs of persons with HIV/AIDS. Stephen also taught classes on housing and AIDS law, published a law review article and helped organize three public interest law conferences at Yale University, including an international conference in conjunction with the Special Olympics World Games.

After the two-year fellowship, Mr. Pincus served as the first law clerk to the Honorable Janet Bond Arterton of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Following the clerkship, Stephen worked as an attorney with the law firm of Rosen & Dolan in New Haven, Connecticut, where he specialized in representing individuals in employment, civil rights, and personal injury cases. Among his more notable cases was a civil rights case against the State of Connecticut in which the jury awarded a record $1 million for the loss of life for a person with mental retardation. Stephen also brought numerous cases against municipalities for discriminatory hiring and violations of due process and civil rights laws. Stephen also drafted briefs and argued appeals before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Since joining the predecessor to Stember Feinstein Doyle Payne & Cordes, LLC in 2005, Stephen has concentrated his work in representing individuals in employment law actions and retirees in a series of nationwide class actions law suits involving cuts to health and pension benefits.  Stepehn is the lead counsel in class action lawsuits representing retired public sector workers in New Hampshire, Colorado and Minnesota against those states' pension systems over cuts to the cost-of-living adjustments.

Since 2008, along with John Stember, Stephen has co-directed the Unemployment Compensation Practicum at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. The Pennsylvania Bar Foundation recognized the work of the Practicum with its Pro Bono Award in 2010.

Stephen has been interviewed about his cases by the Reader's Digest, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Denver Post, Concord Monitor, the Pittsburgh City Paper, and American Medical News, among other publications, as well as Pittsburgh's radio and television stations.

Stephen is a member of the bars of Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Maryland. He has written articles in legal publications including Trial, Stetson Law Review, Clinical Law Review, Pennsylvania Municipalities, and the Allegheny County Bar Association's Legal Journal.

Stephen has performed pro bono work for the Neighborhood Legal Services and the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force. He is a past president of Congregation Beth El Keser Israel in New Haven. In 2005, he was named by Pittsburgh Magazine and the Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project (PUMP) as one of Pittsburgh's "40 under 40" who are making a positive contribution to the region.  In 2006, he was named by the Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia's legal newspaper, as one of Pennsylvania's "Lawyers on a Fast Track."

Stephen lives in Squirrel Hill with his wife and three children.