Steven Haney

Steven Alan Haney is a criminal defense attorney and founder of Haney Law Group PLLC in Eastpointe, Michigan. His State Bar of Michigan profile lists him as an active member in good standing and records his Michigan admission on May 29, 2002. He uses the name Steve Haney on the firm’s website. His bar profile also identifies civil rights, personal injury and police misconduct among his practice areas and lists his affiliation with the bar’s Criminal Law Section.

Before moving into defense work, Haney served as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney and then as an Assistant Attorney General for Michigan, according to his firm biography. That account describes his prosecutorial work in felony drug cases and his leadership of a special prosecutorial unit in the Attorney General’s Office. His subsequent defense work has included trials in both state and federal courts.

Haney represented Christian Dawkins in a federal college basketball corruption case in the Southern District of New York. His work on that case was featured in HBO’s 2020 documentary The Scheme. His firm biography also identifies professional basketball players among his clients, including Magic Johnson and Dominique Wilkins.

Beyond Haney’s individual practice, Haney Law Group advertises services in criminal defense, personal injury, insurance litigation, intellectual property and copyright law, and sports and entertainment law. The firm’s civil rights work includes police misconduct and constitutional violations.