GENERAL PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Stephen R. McCutcheon’s practice includes representing management clients in sensitive and high profile matters, including matters related to civil rights and constitutional claims, and a variety of personnel matters involving wage and hour, discrimination and reductions in force. Mr. McCutcheon is an experienced advocate, has briefed cases at all levels of the state and federal courts, and has successfully argued cases in the trial courts and before the California Court of Appeals.

Prior to joining Cook Brown, Mr. McCutcheon represented clients in challenging campaign fundraising practices, and in other litigation regarding personal injury claims. He has also worked with the proponents of ballot initiatives in the preparation, circulation and qualification of initiative measures, and in voting litigation.

Mr. McCutcheon co-authored “The Last Refuge of Official Discrimination: The Federal Funding Exception to California’s Proposition 209,” 44 Santa Clara Law Review 457, 2004, and previously served as a comment staff writer to the Pacific Law Journal.

Mr. McCutcheon earned his J.D. from the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in 1997, graduating With Great Distinction, and was a member of the Order of the Coif and Traynor Honor Society. He earned his B.A. degree in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is admitted to practice in California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court.