About Steve
Steve Frederick trained first as a student of ideas and art, then turned those habits of thought toward the law. He earned a B.A. in philosophy and art from Transylvania University in 1988 and took his law degree from the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville in 1995. Those two strands — a liberal arts grounding and formal legal study — set the tone for a career spent largely in the courtroom and on appeal.
He began his legal practice in the late 1990s. By 1999 he was working as a litigation lawyer at Frederick Willett & Haynes. He moved to Seiller Handmaker LLP in 2005, continuing trial work and courtroom practice. In 2007 he founded Frederick Law Office, where he remains a principal. Along the way he gained admissions to practice before the courts that handle federal appeals and the nation’s highest bench: the Sixth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, in addition to his Kentucky bar membership beginning in 1999.
Frederick’s professional life has brought recurring recognition from peer-review organizations. He has been listed in Super Lawyers since 2011 and named among Kentucky Monthly Magazine’s Top Lawyers in the state from the same year. The National Trial Lawyers included him among its Top 100 beginning in 2009. Those listings reflect a profile of steady courtroom practice rather than a menu of firm promotion.
His memberships map to the practical work he does. He belongs to the Kentucky State Bar and has been active in trial-oriented groups such as the American Association for Justice and the Kentucky Justice Association, where he has served as a Governor at Large. Those affiliations point to long-term involvement in trial networks, continuing legal education, and the professional governance structures that shape litigation practice in Kentucky.
Through more than two decades of practice, Frederick has split his time between trials and appellate work. He has handled matters that required appearances in state courts, federal appellate courts and filings before the U.S. Supreme Court. He now operates out of Frederick Law Office, handling litigation in both trial and appellate courts and representing clients across the jurisdictions to which he is admitted.
