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Michael R. Steinmark at Steckler Wayne & Love: An Employment Docket Inside a Catastrophic-Injury Firm

Michael Steinmark’s employment practice does not live inside a dedicated employment boutique. Steckler Wayne & Love PLLC, his firm, is primarily a catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, and complex commercial litigation practice, with employment law as one of several litigation areas he personally handles. Readers of this Dallas employment lawyer directory should understand that context before evaluating the rest of this profile.

At a Glance: This Dallas Employment Litigation Attorney’s Credentials

I. Fifteen Years at a Regional Firm Before Joining Steckler Wayne

Michael Steinmark earned his undergraduate degree cum laude from Vanderbilt University in 2000 and his J.D. from SMU Dedman School of Law in 2005. He spent 15 years with a respected Dallas-based regional firm before joining Steckler Wayne, PLLC (now Steckler Wayne & Love), where his practice spans catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death, employment, commercial, consumer, financial services, and intellectual property disputes — a considerably broader docket than most other firms in this directory’s employment category.

II. Practice Concentration

Super Lawyers classifies Steinmark’s employment work as spanning both “Employment & Labor: Employee” and “Employment & Labor: Employer,” and his own professional materials describe handling “employee and employer work in discrimination, retaliation, and harassment cases under Title VII, the ADA, the ADEA, and other federal and state law,” as well as covenants not to compete, non-solicitation, and non-circumvention claims. He has separately represented mortgage servicers, transportation companies, real estate firms, financial institutions, and insurers in commercial and insurance-defense litigation — underscoring that his overall practice is generalist commercial litigation rather than employment-focused specifically.

III. Track Record

Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome. Awesome Attorneys did not locate an employment-specific results table on the firm’s site.

Steinmark’s publicly described results — a summary judgment in a catastrophic oil tanker rollover case and a take-nothing defense verdict in a wrongful death matter — are from his personal injury and commercial defense work rather than his employment docket specifically. Awesome Attorneys was unable to independently verify specific dollar figures or outcomes tied to his employment cases and is disclosing that gap directly.

IV. Client Voice

Awesome Attorneys did not locate an aggregated third-party review score specific to Steinmark’s employment practice during this research. His professional recognitions (detailed below) reflect sustained peer regard across his litigation practice generally, though not employment-specific client testimonials.

V. Beyond the Courtroom

Steinmark is a member of the American Bar Association, the Dallas Bar Association, the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers, the State Bar of Texas, and the Missouri Bar. He has been recognized in Thomson Reuters’ Texas Super Lawyers / Rising Stars listings consistently since 2010, a fifteen-plus-year run reflecting sustained peer standing across his combined litigation practice.

VI. Recognition

Peer-reviewed and independently conferred credentials: Super Lawyers selection (Texas, consistently since 2010); “Superb” Avvo rating. Awesome Attorneys did not identify Best Lawyers recognition, board certification, or any marketing-program-only awards claimed by this attorney specific to employment law.

VII. The Texas Legal Backdrop

Steinmark’s discrimination and retaliation work runs through Title VII, the ADA, and the ADEA at the federal level, each generally requiring an EEOC charge before suit, and the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (Texas Labor Code Chapter 21), which requires a parallel charge with the Texas Workforce Commission’s Civil Rights Division within 180 days of the alleged act. His non-compete and non-solicitation work runs through the Texas Covenants Not to Compete Act (Texas Business and Commerce Code Chapter 15.50).

VIII. Awesome Attorneys Assessment: This Dallas Employment Lawyer’s Strengths and Limits

Steinmark’s fifteen consecutive years of Super Lawyers recognition and his breadth across catastrophic injury, commercial, and IP litigation reflect a genuinely accomplished generalist trial lawyer. For a client whose employment dispute intersects with commercial or trade-secret issues, that breadth can be an asset.

The honest limitation for readers of this directory is focus: employment law is one practice area among several at a firm whose primary identity is catastrophic personal injury and complex commercial litigation, and Steinmark himself represents both employees and employers rather than one side exclusively. A worker with a straightforward discrimination or wrongful termination claim may be better served by one of the dedicated, employee-side employment boutiques elsewhere in this category; Steinmark is a stronger fit where an employment dispute overlaps with broader commercial or IP litigation, or where a client is comfortable with a generalist litigator handling either side of an employment matter.

IX. Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was compiled from the firm’s own website (stecklerlaw.com); Super Lawyers’ attorney profile; Avvo’s attorney profile; the State Bar of Texas directory listing; Justia and Lawyers.com attorney profiles; and Distinguished Lawyers of America’s attorney summary. No case results, credentials, or quotes were invented; where independent verification of employment-specific outcomes or reviews was unavailable, that gap is disclosed rather than filled.

Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice

Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal directory and editorial publication. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by Steckler Wayne & Love PLLC prior to publication. Awesome Attorneys may in the future offer sponsored placements clearly labeled as such, but no payment of any kind determines inclusion in, or the content of, this editorial profile. This article is for informational purposes only, does not constitute legal advice, and does not create an attorney-client relationship between the reader and Steckler Wayne & Love PLLC or Awesome Attorneys.