Simon is a solicitor with over 20 years' employment law experience. He formed Steen & Co Employment Solicitors in 2002. However, he undertook his first tribunal in 1989 when he was an in house lawyer dealing with employment law. He has worked solely as an employment solicitor ever since. His experience includes 5 years working in house as legal adviser to a company which at the time was in the FTSE 100. In 1995 Simon joined and later became a partner in a large regional firm where he was recognised in the Legal 500 as a noted employment lawyer 'with a sound reputation in employment law'. In 2000 he began working for a very large London firm of solicitors as a senior employment lawyer and set up Steen & Co Employment Solicitors in 2002.
He has a background in computer science and law and is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association. As well as being a qualified solicitor Simon also qualified as a barrister in 1989. Simon plays cricket enthusiastically but badly, drives old and really old cars and doesn’t understand why people drive new cars.