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. Stephen co-founded and edits Osborne Clarke's specialist website www.marketinglaw.co.uk , Europe's first dedicated online resource for advertising and marketing.

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 sits on the Board of the Direct Marketing Association and its Executive and Finance Committee.

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.