Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin, PC
Steve Lupin is the Managing Partner of Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin. He was named by the Montgomery County Trial Lawyers as the 2012 James P. Fox Trial Lawyer of the Year. Steve is a past President of the Montgomery Bar Association (2010) and is a past President of the Montgomery Bar Foundation (2012-2015), where he is a life fellow and member of the Stefan and Taxis circles.
A partner with Hamburg Rubin since April 1981, Steve has vast experience in preparing and trying complex, high stakes cases and bet-the-house commercial litigation.
Steve is experienced in almost every aspect of personal injury, business and commercial litigation. With regard to personal injury, he has represented clients in motor vehicle accidents (car, truck and motorcycle), medical malpractice and products cases. In commercial litigation, he has rebuffed the challenge of the constitutionality of the Montgomery County Personal Property Tax Law (the Annenberg case) and has been in the forefront of obtaining a reduction of the equivalent dwelling unit as established by the Montgomery County Sewer Authority. Steve has represented many condominium associations involved in litigation.
In addition, Steve has teamed effectively with lawyers of prominent national firms, including Arnold & Porter, Schuyler, Roche & Crisham, Carella, Byrne, Cecchi, Olstein, Brody and Agnello, and others, to prepare commercial and business litigation cases for trial in Federal and State courts. As a result of his many accomplishments, he has been named to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers List for the years 2005-2021 and as a Super Lawyer in the Corporate Counsel Edition for the years 2008-2014. Steve has served as President of the Montgomery County Trial Lawyers Association. He is a long-time member of the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice (formerly Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association), and for the last fifteen years has authored a regular Commercial Litigation column in the PAJustice News. Steve has been twice appointed a Zone 9 Delegate to the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s House of Delegates. Steve was presented with the Montgomery Bar Association’s Henry Stuckert Miller Public Service Award. Steve is an active member and Past President of the Montgomery American Inn of Court. A graduate of Temple University School of Law (J.D. 1973), Steve received his undergraduate degree from the Pennsylvania State University (B.A. 1970).
Steve is a Senior Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, an invitation-only trial lawyer honorary society whose purpose is to recognize deserving, experienced, and highly qualified lawyers. Membership is limited to 3,500 Fellows, representing less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. Members are selected and invited into Fellowship after being evaluated on effectiveness and accomplishment in litigation and trial work, along with ethical reputation.
He was selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America for the years 2013-2022 in Commercial Litigation. Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin has been selected as a “Best Law Firm” for the years 2015-2022 by U.S. News and World Report. Best Lawyers® is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. A listing in Best Lawyers is widely regarded by both clients and legal professionals as a significant honor, conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers. For more than three decades, Best Lawyers® lists have earned the respect of the profession, the media, and the public, as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals anywhere.
Steve was selected to the 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021 lists as a member of the Nation’s Top One Percent by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel. NADC is an organization dedicated to promoting the highest standards of legal excellence. Its mission is to objectively recognize the attorneys who elevate the standards of the Bar and provide a benchmark for other lawyers to emulate.