
Contact
916.447.4900
916.447.4904
701 University Avenue
Suite 106
Sacramento, California 95825
Stephen M. Duvernay
Steve Duvernay is an attorney with Benbrook Law Group. He has experience representing clients in complex civil and constitutional litigation in state and federal courts, political and election law matters, and appeals.
Steve is a Senior Research Fellow with the California Constitution Center at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where he is also a lecturer in advanced legal writing.
Before joining Benbrook Law Group, Steve worked as an associate at DLA Piper and Klinedinst PC. He graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame Law School, and earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to law school, Steve taught for a nonprofit organization in the San Francisco Bay Area that focused on civic activism and political participation.
Additional
Board Member, Sacramento County Bar Foundation (President, 2010-2015; Vice President, 2018)
Board Member, Barristers’ Club of Sacramento (President, 2018)
Board Member, Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, Sacramento Lawyers Chapter
Advisory Board, Sacramento Central YMCA
Board Member, Federal Bar Association, Sacramento Chapter
Rising Star, Northern California Super Lawyers (2010, 2014–2018)
PUBLICATIONS
David A. Carrillo, Stephen M. Duvernay, Benjamin Gevercer & Meghan Fenzel, California Constitutional Law: Direct Democracy, 92 S. Cal. L. Rev. —- (forthcoming 2019).
David A. Carrillo and Stephen M. Duvernay, California Constitutional Law: The Guarantee Clause and California’s Republican Form of Government,
62 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 104 (2014).
ADMISSIONS
California State Bar
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
All federal district courts in California
EDUCATION
Notre Dame Law School (J.D., 2007), cum laude
University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 2003)