Stephen specialises in marketing and media law. He has many years' experience of advising media and rights owners, as well as marketing agencies of all kinds, on advertising and marketing content, intellectual property rights, contracts and dispute/complaint resolution. In 1999 Stephen co-founded Osborne Clarke's specialist website www.marketinglaw.co.uk , Europe's first dedicated online resource for advertising and marketing. The site now has over 1000 pages of content and 3000 registered users. Stephen has been the site's editor since its launch.

Stephen is also co-author of the latest re-issue of the Advertising and Marketing volume of Butterworths' Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents and has been consistently rated by the UK's two leading legal professional directories as a national leader in advertising and marketing law.

Stephen is Chair of the UK chapter of the Promotion Marketing Association and sits on the Direct Marketing Association's main board, after recently completing a three year elected tour of duty on the DMA's Email Marketing Council, where he chaired the Legislation and Best Practice Hub and was a lead writer of the first edition of the DMA's Email Marketing Best Practice Guidelines.

Stephen trained at Oswald Hickson, Collier & Co and was made a partner there in 1978. He joined MacFarlanes in 1982 and moved to Lewis Silkin in 1985, where he was made a partner in 1986. He joined Osborne Clarke in 1999.