Stephen G. Harvey
Stephen G. Harvey is a partner in the Litigation Department of Pepper Hamilton LLP. Mr. Harvey concentrates his practice in commercial litigation and financial services.
In the area of commercial litigation, Mr. Harvey has counseled and represented numerous clients in commercial disputes involving breach of contract, fraud, trademark infringement, restrictive covenants, trade secrets, discrimination, insurance coverage, catastrophic injury, crashworthiness, products liability, defamation, tortious interference with contractual relations and fiduciary duties of corporate directors. He has represented many clients at jury and bench trials in state and federal courts. He speaks and writes regularly on trial practice and litigation topics.
In the area of financial services, Mr. Harvey has defended numerous class actions and individual claims alleging violations of the Truth-in-Lending Act, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, state unfair trade practices acts, and other federal and state statutes and regulations governing consumer financial services. Mr. Harvey has represented state and national banks, auto finance companies, specialty finance companies, credit card companies and mortgage lenders/servicers in disputes with government officials, customers, vendors, and other financial services companies. He has litigated the enforcement of arbitration clauses in numerous state and federal courts. He speaks and writes regularly on issues of interest to the consumer financial services industry. Mr. Harvey is active in the ABA Section of Business Law and its Committee on Consumer Financial Services, for which he serves as chair of the Subcommittee on Consumer Litigation and Arbitration.
Mr. Harvey is known nationally for his pro bono work for the plaintiffs in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, 400 F. Supp. 2d 707 (M.D. Pa. 2005), the landmark case testing the constitutionality of teaching “intelligent design” in public school science class. In 2007, Pepper and Mr. Harvey were featured in the two-hour Nova program “Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial.” Mr. Harvey is a barrister in the Temple American Inn of Court in Philadelphia. He serves on the Legal Advisory Board for the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of the Homeless Advocacy Project in Philadelphia.
At Villanova, Mr. Harvey was awarded the Hyman-Goodman Award for Academic and Extracurricular Excellence. Following graduation from law school, he clerked for the Honorable Myron H. Bright on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Mr. Harvey then entered the Honors Program of the U.S. Department of Justice and served as a Trial Attorney in the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division in Washington, D.C. He joined Pepper Hamilton in 1995.
Education
B.A. 1982 University of Massachusetts
J.D. 1989, magna cum laude, Villanova University School of Law; managing editor, Villanova Law Review; national moot court champion; member, Order of the Coif
Clerkships
1989-90 Law Clerk to Hon. Myron H. Bright, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
Bar Admissions
Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania
