Steven Lucas is a partner specializing in political law, including campaign, election, lobby and ethics laws in various federal, state and local jurisdictions. He specializes in state and local ballot measures, and maintains a 50 state practice in the area of campaign and lobby law compliance. As a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School, he teaches "Election Law" and "Law and Politics in California."
He previously served at the appointment of the Governor of California as Chairman of the Bipartisan Commission on the Political Reform Act. He is a past president of the California Political Attorneys Association. He has also served on the California Secretary of State's Task Force on Online Disclosure as well as the FPPC Chairman's Advisory Task Force.
Before joining the firm and following his clerkship with Chief Justice Malcolm Lucas of the California Supreme Court, he practiced corporate litigation in the Los Angeles office of Sullivan & Cromwell. During that time he served as Counsel to the Webster Commission, appointed by the Los Angeles Police Commission to investigate the LAPD's preparedness for and response to the Los Angeles riots.
Mr. Lucas has published numerous opinion-editorial columns relating to constitutional and other legal issues in the Los Angeles Times as well as other California newspapers, and has experience working for federal and state public officials and political campaigns.
Mr. Lucas received his law degree from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, where he was cross-enrolled at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Institute of Press, Politics and Public Policy. He received a B.A. in Economics/Business and graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.