Stephen B. Yeager
Faculty Supervisor, Corporate Counsel Externship Program
Adjunct faculty
| Phone |
214-768-4178 |
| Website |
https://www.smu.edu/Law/Academics/Externship-Programs/Corporate-Counsel-Externship-Program |
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Stephen B. Yeager is Faculty Supervisor of the SMU Dedman Law Corporate Counsel Externship Program, an innovative academic program for third-year and international law students that combines a corporate counsel course with externships in corporate legal departments. Each year approximately 100 students work with the same number of companies where they were placed based on their practice area or industry interests. Dean Yeager created and developed the curriculum for the program, which has grown into the premier corporate externship program in the nation.
He serves on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Robert B. Rowling Center for Business Law & Leadership. Outside the law school, he sits on the board of the SMU Faculty Club, where he serves as treasurer.
Dean Yeager is the co-author of Inside Counsel – Practices, Strategies and Insights 2d ed (West 2020), with Marc I. Steinberg, the Rupert and Lillian Radford Professor of Law.
Prior to coming to SMU, Dean Yeager was in private practice for 16 years, first at Jones Day and then as general counsel of a private financial services company. He received his undergraduate and law degrees at Southern Methodist University. His wife Amy, also an SMU Dedman Law alum, is Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer of Children's Health. Their son Carson and daughter Alexandra both graduated from SMU.
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration, summa cum laude, in Finance and Real Estate/Urban Land Economics, Southern Methodist University
Juris Doctor, cum laude, SMU Dedman School of Law
Courses
Corporate Counsel
Books
Steinberg & Yeager, Inside Counsel - Practices, Strategies, and Insights 2d ed (West 2020)
ISBN: 9781640207011
Inside Counsel provides a wide-ranging account of in-house law practice. The book serves as a valuable resource for many audiences – law students, in-house counsel, those who are contemplating going in-house, and even outside lawyers. Relying on their collective decades of practical and academic experience, the authors offer key insights into such important topics as successful strategies that in-house counsel can implement, interfacing with “internal clients,” working with outside counsel, the focus on “preventative” law, the skill sets that are valued by corporate counsel, and the steps that an outside lawyer or recent graduate can take to obtain an in-house position.