Steven graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University in Montreal in 1985 and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Alberta in Edmonton in 1988. For 13 years from 1998 to 2011 Steven was a staff lawyer with the City of Edmonton providing legal advice to City Council and a number of different City departments. Steven’s municipal law experience continued in private practice from 2011 to 2013 with FMC LLP (now Dentons) and then with the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (now Alberta Municipalities) until his retirement from the full-time practice of law in 2016. Since that time Steven has continued to work on projects with a number of Alberta municipalities including Strathcona County, Lethbridge, Beaumont and Leduc.
Outside the practice of law Steven was a sessional instructor in municipal law with the University of Alberta, Faculty of Extension in the NAACLA program from 2009 until 2021, was appointed by Edmonton City Council as a member of the Edmonton Combative Sports Commission where he served from 2015 until 2021, including three years as Commission Chair, and since 2022 has served as a member of the Board of Directors of BC Hockey.