Stephen C. Leckar joined Butera & Andrews as a partner in 1997 to head its federal litigation practice. He grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and received his Bachelor's degree with honors from Georgia State University. He earned his law degree from Duke University Law School.

Mr. Leckar began his legal career as a Legislative Assistant to former United States Senator Herman E. Talmadge (D-GA), and then served as a trial attorney with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, DC. He entered private practice in 1978, and since that time has developed a specialty in federal commercial litigation, enforcement defense and criminal appellate work. He also has extensive experience in civil RICO, securities and commodities anti-fraud and criminal white collar matters, as well as federal appeals involving actions of various governmental agencies.

In a case featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, after joining Butera & Andrews, Mr. Leckar successfully represented a broadcaster which the FCC had ordered off the air. The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit took the unusual step of reversing the agency action and restoring our client to the airways.

For the past eight years, Mr. Leckar has also served as a mediator for the US District Court for the District of Columbia and is a member of the Advisory Committee on Rules of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He has authored articles on litigation, administrative law, antitrust and other matters in various legal journals, made television appearances and been quoted in numerous newspaper articles .