Steven Lovett

Steven L. Lovett was appointed as the General Counsel and Vice President of Risk Management for Emporia State University in 2023. Prior to that appointment, Steven was the Associate General Counsel for Academic Affairs and an associate professor in the School of Business. Hehas taught a variety of business law and international business law courses, along with business ethics, social responsibility, and sustainability at the undergraduate and graduate level. Prior to joining ESU, Steven served as counsel for a number of companies on a wide variety of corporate governance issues, compliance and regulatory issues, best practices, outside counsel management, and business-to-business transactional matters. Steven also provided litigation and appellate legal services to several government agencies. Steven is the author of Corporate Counsel Guides: Practice Basics (1st ed., ABA Publishing, 2013), an undergraduate textbook on applied ethics; and several trade and journal articles, book chapters, and scholarly papers. He is a member, or former member, of the State Bar of Kansas, the State Bar of Texas, State Bar of New Mexico, the American Bar Association, and federal bar associations. He earned his B.A. degree from Texas A&M University and his J.D. degree from St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas, in 1999.