Steven A. Skalet is a principal in the firm of Mehri & Skalet, PLLC. Mr. Skalet is involved in all aspects of the firm's litigation practice--especially in the areas of consumer and financial fraud--and continues his real estate and finance practice. Mr. Skalet has over 35 years of litigation and transactional experience in real estate, consumer fraud, bank fraud and class action litigation.
In 2001, Mr. Skalet and Cyrus Mehri started the firm of Mehri & Skalet, PLLC, concentrating in complex litigation and class actions. The firm has developed a varied and successful litigation practice in state and federal courts. In the past five years Mr. Skalet has been lead counsel or co-lead counsel in successful class action cases against Dell, Inc., Mercury Marine, Hewlett Packard, Sony, Ford, Verizon, Mitsubishi, Morgan Stanley and many other companies.
Mr. Skalet has had a varied litigation practice before state and federal courts throughout his career. From 1995 until the formation of M&S, Mr. Skalet practiced with Kass & Skalet, PLLC, a well-known real estate, litigation, complex business and consumer protection firm. Prior to that, he and another lawyer formed a practice that focused on real estate and litigation, including consumer class actions under the Truth-in-Lending and Equal Credit Opportunity acts. That firm grew to approximately 23 lawyers in 3 jurisdictions and, when it split up in 1995, was known as Kass, Skalet, Segan, Spevack & Van Grack, PLLC.
Mr. Skalet began his career with the Washington, D.C. firm of Melrod, Redman & Gartlan, where he worked on a number of American Civil Liberties Union cases, including a case granting women the right to employment with the U.S. Park Service as park police.
Mr. Skalet has been an advisor to the Federal Reserve Board on credit and banking matters. He has served on the Montgomery County Advisory Committee reviewing the wholesale simplification of the Montgomery County Code. He also served on the District of Columbia Bar Committee responsible for drafting form commercial leases and the Montgomery County Board of Realtors committee responsible for drafting residential real estate contracts.
Mr. Skalet actively participates in Community Associations Institute activities and is presently Co-Chair of the District of Columbia Legislative Action Committee, which he chaired for many years. In 1999 and again in 2004, he was awarded the Public Advocate Award for his work on District of Columbia legislation. He is a frequent speaker and has authored numerous articles pertaining to real estate and community associations.
Mr. Skalet graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in 1971 and the University of Rochester in 1968. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife, Linda, and has two grown sons.
