Bill has consulted to more than five hundred law firms and has over twenty-five years of experience in the legal profession. He served as Director of Administration and Chief Financial Officer for two AMLaw 200 law firms for a total of nine years. He began his career at Price Waterhouse as an accountant and consultant and spent over a decade as a principal of the law firm consultancy, Altman Weil, Inc.

Bill is a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) with the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts. He achieved the designation of Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and is a former member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Steve has engaged in law practice for 55 years, as associate, partner, counsel and international consultant to major law firms in New York and Switzerland. He was a founding partner of the Proskauer London office in his nearly 25 years at the firm practicing litigation and arbitration law in New York, Geneva, Paris and London. He has also served as international counsel at the Geneva firm, Budin & Partners, and a member of the corporate department of Dentons New York office. At Dentons, Steve has also developed and administered conventional funding relationships for clients to finance arbitration and federal and state litigation. In the course of his career he has prepared and tried cases and conducted appeals for major banks, industrial and other financial services clients. At Dentons he served as outside general counsel for media and telecommunication businesses for whom he headed teams of Dentons lawyers within its global network in matters including M&A transactions, corporate governance, domestic and foreign arbitration and litigation and employment.

Steve has degrees from Cornell University (BS) and New York University School of Law (JD).