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Steve Benedetto is licensed to practice law in Arizona, California, and Colorado. He actively takes on serious injury and civil rights cases in all three states, and performs settlement consulting services for catastrophic injury lawyers throughout the country.
Steve began his legal career in 2003, after graduating cum laude from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. From 2003-04 Steve served as a judicial clerk to Arizona Supreme Court Justice Rebecca White Berch–one of only 10 lawyers in the State of Arizona to be granted the honor of a Supreme Court Judicial Clerkship.
After the conclusion of his clerkship Steve transitioned into corporate defense practice. Over the course of the next five years he worked as an associate attorney in the litigation groups of three different NLJ150 law firms. He learned, from the inside, the playbook that big corporations and their lawyers use to defend lawsuits, avoid accountability and settle cases for pennies on the dollar.
In 2009, Steve left corporate practice to start his own law firm, focusing on the defense of the criminally accused. In the following years he added two partners and four associates, expanding the firm and its practice areas until Benedetto Torgenson Maurer became one of the fastest growing personal injury law firms in Arizona.
In 2014, after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Steve decided to re-dedicate his practice to fighting for the constitutional rights of ordinary people. He created The People’s Law Firm to do exactly that. In 2017 he moved to Boulder, Colorado to open the firm’s Colorado practice. And in 2021, he relocated again–this time to San Diego, to start the firm’s Southern California office.
In addition to running The People’s Law Firm, Steve is also the founder and creative director of Policy Limit Demands (a legal consulting company that provides customized settlement strategies to attorneys throughout the country) and inJustice Films (a film production company that produces legal documentaries).
When he is not in airports, hotels, his office, or the video editing room, Steve can usually be found on Dog Beach in San Diego with one of his insane dogs; listening to Grateful Dead concert recordings while running or riding his bike around Mission Bay; or sitting in Balboa Park under a tree working on his latest book.
