Steve is a 1980 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University. In 1987, he graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law. Thereafter, Steve clerked for the Honorable Almon Maus of the Missouri Court of Appeals - Southern District from 1987 to 1988. From 1988 to 1990, he clerked for Senior Judge William Collinson of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri.

Since 1990, Steve has exclusively defended Missouri Workers' Compensation claims on behalf of employers and insurers. In 1990, he joined an insurance defense firm. In 2003, he became associated with the firm of Keeven & Voigt, P.C. Steve continues to handle all aspects of Missouri Workers' Compensation litigation throughout the State of Missouri.