Angeles Times criticizing the film, “The Hurricane” starring Denzel Washington, for transforming Carter’s “painful story into a series of false cliches: He was jailed because of one racist cop; he was freed through the efforts of a commune of white people. In reality, Carter was ensnared by an entire criminal justice system. … Along with Myron Beldock and Leon Friedman, I spent more than a decade representing Rubin Carter and his co-defendant, John Artis, fighting to expose police-created false evidence, prosecutorial misconduct and judicial acceptance of a trial by race rather than fact. During years of appeals through the New Jersey state court system in the late 1970s and ‘80s, not one of the more than 20 state court judges who reviewed the case was willing to confront the racism behind the unproven accusation that Carter and Artis murdered three randomly chosen whites to avenge an earlier killing of a black man by a white man”. Sumitomo Shoji America Inc. (SSA) In 1982, Steel represented a group of female employees working for the American subsidiary of the multi-national Japanese firm, Sumitomo, in the United States. The women asserted that they were always treated and paid as clericals despite their responsibilities and that they had no opportunity for advancement because of their sex in violation of U.S. anti-discrimination law. The case, Sumitomo Shoji America, Inc. v. Avagliano, reached the U.S. Supreme Court, where Steel won a 9-0 decision that established the precedent that American subsidiaries of foreign companies operating in the U.S. must abide by U.S. anti-discrimination laws. Later work In 2017, Steel was part of the Outten & Golden team that claimed the U.S. Census Bureau’s reliance on criminal arrest records when hiring temporary workers to conduct the decennial count had a substantial disparate impact on more than 400,000 African American and Hispanic job applicants in violation of Title VII, the federal law prohibiting discrimination in the workplace. Their successful class action suit in Gonzalez v. Pritzker resulted in a court approved settlement that led the Bureau to overhaul its hiring process and provide $5 million for a program through the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law that helps people with criminal records increase their employment prospects. As a result, Steel and other members of the Outten & Golden team were named Trial Lawyer of