Steven Rosenfield

I began practicing law in 1977 working as a poverty law lawyer and continuing that kind of work in private practice. My politics is what drives me against the status quo and working in favor of the weaker against the stronger and the less fortunate against the powerful. I use the law to empower people without power. As I have scaled back on courtroom work, in 2019, I started The Virginia Prisoner Project, Inc. in order to provide legal help for incarcerated people who are injured, physically and/or constitutionally. I live with a lot of pain from systemic arthritis, so my goal is to find funding for The Project in order to have a fulltime lawyer and paralegal to represent prisoners or elicit help from big law firms to help rep. prisoners. There is a great need in a terribly broken jail/prison system. Contact me if you can/want to help financially!!! - attyrosen@aol.com

I graduated from the University of Miami (Fla.) in 1970 with a degree in Industrial Engineering. My politics began to change and I joined the VISTA program in 1971 which sent me to Virginia. I saw incredible poverty and injustice and it affected me profoundly. I began studying law by "reading law" in Virginia and took and passed the bar in 1977. I am licensed in Virginia and practice in local, state, and federal courts. I have been the fortunate recipient of a dozen awards and honored to be President of our local bar association. My work has included some high profile cases which has landed me in eight books written by others about my cases and in a documentary (Killing for Love; story about Jens Soering, and on Dateline NBC - the story about an innocent client. I represented nine prisoners charged with capital murder, eight of whom received life sentences and one found not guilty by reason of insanity. I still have two clients on death row who I successfully represented in a civil rights case challenging the conditions on death row. I was such an average high school student with many complexes that caused me to remain in the back drop and pretty shy. My sense of humor has fortified me over the years and my wife said to say that I am still cute. Her politics and love have sustained me over four decades.

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All of the slow songs to which I could dance.

First Colfax, then Minadeo