Background
Block, Steven Robert was born on December 6, 1955 in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. Son of Mason J. Block and Joan Sandra (Bromberg) Gitlin.
Block, Steven Robert was born on December 6, 1955 in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. Son of Mason J. Block and Joan Sandra (Bromberg) Gitlin.
Indiana University (Bachelor of Arts, with distinction, 1977). Emory University (Juris Doctor, 1980). Phi Beta Kappa. Research Editor, Emory Law Journal, 1979-1980.
Associate Johnson & Swanson, Dallas, 1980-1985, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Dallas, 1985-1987, partner, since 1987. Teacher Southern Methodist University Southwestern Graduate School Banking, Dallas, 1985. Speaker Annual Institute on Law of Banking Institutions, since 1986.
Author: (with others) Fundamentals of Bank and Savings and Loan Association Acquisitions. Research editor Emory University Law Review, 1979.
Member American Bar Association (bank holding companies and related nonbank matter subcommittee corporation banking and business law section), Texas Bar Association (speaker 1983), Dallas Bar Association, New Jersey Bankers' Association (speaker 1983), Oklahoma Bankers' Association (speaker 1984), Phi Beta Kappa.
Chess, golf, sports, reading.
Married Sharla Rae Wright, October 16, 1983.