Steven P Solow

Practice Areas

Steven P. Solow focuses his practice on white collar defense, internal investigations, incident and crisis response, corporate compliance, monitorships, and environmental civil and criminal litigation.He represents and counsels corporations and business associations regarding their legal and regulatory obligations, develops integrated compliance programs that address corporate and government expectations and represents both corporate and individual clients in white collar cases.

Steve represents chemical, energy, utility, homebuilding, construction, pipeline, shipping and technology companies on regulatory compliance, and through internal investigations and litigation. He counsels senior management and corporate boards of directors on corporate best practices and governance. He also dedicates significant time to pro bono work, and for over 20 years has represented the Mines Advisory Group US (MAG US), part of an international NGO that removes landmines and unexploded ordnance around the world.

In addition to operating Solow, PLLC, Steve is a Managing Director of Global Compliance & Corporate Culture at Affiliated Monitors, Inc. His monitorship work has included his appointment by a U.S. Federal District Court Judge to serve from 2017-2022 as the Court Appointed Monitor (CAM) over the world's largest cruise line company.

Career

Prior to founding Solow, PLLC, Steve was a partner at Baker Botts, Katten, and Hunton Andrews Kurth, during which time he served as a national practice chair and as a law firm executive committee member. Prior to entering private practice, he served as Chief of the Department of Justice (DOJ) Environmental Crimes Section, Steve supervised more than 30 federal prosecutors and oversaw the prosecution of environmental criminal cases nationwide. He also coordinated an international law enforcement initiative to combat smuggling of banned chemicals into the United States and served on an Interpol workgroup. He was awarded a Public Service Commendation from the United States Coast Guard. He was a member of the U.S. Attorney General's White Collar Crime Council, and worked closely with U.S. Attorney's Offices, federal investigative agencies, Interpol and state, local and foreign law enforcement agencies.

Before coming to the Environmental Crimes Section, Steve was a prosecutor with the New York State Organized Crime Task Force, prosecuting cases involving fraud, corruption, narcotics, loan-sharking, and illegal dumping. He served as law clerk to the Honorable Harold L. Murphy of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Since 2004 Steve has served as pro bono outside counsel to the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) on behalf of its U.S. office. MAG is a nonprofit organization that clears landmines, unexploded ordnance, and other remnants of conflict around the world. In his work for MAG he has been to MAG operations in Lebanon and Vietnam.

Steve has been an adjunct professor for over twenty-five years in the environmental law program at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. He was a full-time law professor and law clinic co-director for Pace University School of Law from 1992-1994, and for University of Maryland School of Law from 2000-2002 and has been an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. Steve is a Senior Fellow of the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. He has participated in Wharton programs designed to reduce the likelihood of compliance failures for international financial entities. Steve served as the Reporter for the development of the Prosecutorial Investigations Standards for the ABA Criminal Justice Section, Criminal Justice Standards Committee.

Professional Memberships

International Association of Independent Corporate Monitors

Maritime Law Association

Publications

Forthcoming, Co-author, “Clean Air Act Criminal Enforcement” The Clean Air Act Handbook, 5th Edition.

January 18, 2024, Author "Boeing Safety Investigators Must Find Root Causes, Not Scapegoats." Bloomberg US Law Week

September 2022, Co-author, "Solving Corporate Crime," Vol. 47.4 Journal of Corporation Law.

May/June 2022, Author, “Look at Resources, Not Case Numbers,” The Environmental Forum.

October 2021, Co-author, “The Future of Environmental Criminal Enforcement,” Environmental Law Reporter.

August 2021, Co-author, “The Prosecutor’s Role in Anti-Corruption Investigations,” The Anticorruption Manual: A Guide for State Prosecutors.

2019, Co-author, “Environmental Criminal Enforcement,” Environmental Litigation: Law and Safety, Second Edition.

2003-2016, Co-author, “The State of Environmental Crime Enforcement: A Survey of Developments” Environment Reporter

Personal

J.D., New York University, Arthur T. Vanderbilt Award; B.A., Brown University