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Area of Emphasis
Steve Baicker-McKee is a shareholder in the Litigation Services and the Natural Resources Development Groups, and has been with the firm since 1989. Mr. Baicker-McKee concentrates his practice on toxic tort and products liability litigation, environmental litigation, natural resource and energy litigation, and a wide variety of complex commercial litigation. He tries cases across the country before federal, state, and agency tribunals.
Mr. Baicker-McKee is the author of a leading book on federal practice, the Federal Civil Rules Handbook, now in its seventeenth edition, and A Student’s Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, now in its thirteenth edition and used in more than 60 law schools throughout the United States. Mr. Baicker-McKee is a contributing author to Wright and Miller, and is consulted nationally on federal procedural issues.
Mr. Baicker-McKee also serves as a mediator and as an arbitrator in a variety of commercial disputes, and has mediated disputes in a variety of commercial and environmental contexts.
Background
Prior to joining Babst Calland, Mr. Baicker-McKee served a two-year clerkship with the Honorable Glenn E. Mencer of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Mr. Baicker-McKee graduated from Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary, with a J.D. in 1987, where he was on the Board of Editors of the William and Mary Law Review. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1980. From 1980 until 1982, Mr. Baicker-McKee worked as an actuary in Boston, Massachusetts. From 1982 until 1984, Mr. Baicker-McKee built fine furniture and custom cabinets in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Memberships and Affiliations
Mr. Baicker-McKee is a member of the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations. He is Co-Chair of the Federal Practice Section of the PBA, Vice-Chair of the PBA Civil Litigation Section, and Co-Chair of the Toxic Tort Committee of the PBA. Mr. Baicker-McKee is an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is also on the Board of Regional Development Funding Corp. He was elected to the Academy of Trial Lawyers and has been recognized in The Best Lawyers of America® since 2010 and as one of Pennsylvania’s top lawyers in a survey published in Philadelphia magazine.
Publications/Presentations
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Baicker-McKee, Steven F., Antonino Legeza and Timothy C. Wolfson. “ ‘Lone Pine’ Orders and Their Effect on Toxic Tort Litigation," Civil Litigation Update, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Volume 11, No. 4, Fall 2006.
- Baicker-McKee, Steven F. "Federal Civil Rules Handbook," West Publishing, published annually, now in its Sixteenth Edition.
- Baicker-McKee, Steven F. "A Student’s Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure," West Publishing, now in its Eleventh Edition.
- Wright and Miller, "Federal Practice and Procedure," West Publishing – Mr. Baicker-McKee is a contributing author to this series.
- Baicker-McKee, Steven F. “American Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Compagnie Bruxelles Lambert: A New Line of Defense for Parent Corporations," Environmental Law Reporter, 1997.
- Baicker-McKee, Steven F. “Regents, University of California v. Doe," West’s Legal News, December 2, 1996.
- Baicker-McKee, Steven F. “The Supreme Court to Determine the Scope of Eleventh Amendment Immunity," West’s Legal News, December 2, 1996.
- Baicker-McKee, Steven F. “Caterpillar v. Lewis: Can Jurisdiction at the Time of Trial Cure Faulty Removal," West’s Legal News, November 11, 1996.
- Baicker-McKee, Steven F. “Rule 30(b)(6) – Deposition of Party Representative: What Questions Should You Let Your Witness Answer?" West’s Legal News, September 9, 1996.
- Baicker-McKee, Steven F., co-author. “Narrowing the Roads of Private Cost Recovery: Recent Developments Limiting the Recovery of Private Response Costs Under CERCLA §107," The Environmental Law Reporter, Vol. XXV, No. 11, November, 1995.
- Baicker-McKee, Steven F. “Suing the Federal Government Under CERCLA," The Environmental Law Reporter.
- Baicker-McKee, Steven F. “Violence in Athletics: A Judicial Approach," Entertainment & Sports Law Journal, Fall 1986.
- Baicker-McKee, Steven F. “New Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure 207.1," Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
- Baicker-McKee, Steven F. “Electronic Data Retention," Pennsylvania Bar Association Annual Meeting.
- Baicker-McKee, Steven F. “Developing an Effective Electronic Discovery Response Plan," American Corporate Counsel Association.
- Baicker-McKee, Steven F. “Update New Developments in Federal Procedure," Pennsylvania Bar Association.
- Baicker-McKee, Steven F. “Year 2000 - What Every Business Lawyer Needs to Know – And Nothing More," Allegheny County Bar Association Annual Meeting.
- Baicker-McKee, Steven F. “Year 2000 For the Environmental Lawyer," Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Environmental Law Forum.
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