Melvin C. Steen was an American attorney and founding partner of the New York law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Steen graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School

University of Minnesota Law School

The University of Minnesota Law School, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, is a professional school of the University of Minnesota. The school offers a Juris Doctor , Masters of Law for Foreign Lawyers, and joint degrees with J.D./M.B.A., J.D./M.P.A, J.D./M.A., J.D./M.S., J.D./Ph.D.,...

, where the Melvin C. Steen Professorship, currently held by Gregory Shaffer

Gregory Shaffer

Gregory Shaffer is a leading scholar of the World Trade Organization, of law and globalization, and of transnational regulation, working in the tradition of legal realism and socio-legal studies. He introduced the concept of public-private partnerships in the WTO dispute settlement system,...

, is named in his honor. His survivors included his son Gordon of Owings Mills, Maryland

Owings Mills, Maryland

Owings Mills is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is a suburb of Baltimore. The population was 20,193 at the 2000 census. Owings Mills is home to the northern terminus for the Baltimore Metro Subway and to Owings Mills Mall....

Law Partners

Over the years, Steen's law partnerships have included Henry Friendly

Henry Friendly

Henry Jacob Friendly was a prominent judge in the United States, who sat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1959 through 1974 and in senior status until his death by suicide in 1986.- Before the bench :Judge Friendly graduated from...

 and George W. Ball.