Steven C. Krane

Steven C. Krane (January 20, 1957 – June 22, 2010) was an American lawyer who was, at age 44, the youngest president of the New York State Bar Association, and died at the age of 53.

He worked most of his legal career at Proskauer Rose, starting as an associate in 1981 and becoming a partner in 1989. He was an expert not only in legal ethics, but in sports law as well. but then-governor Eliot Spitzer did not appoint him, instead re-appointing Judge Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick to her position.

After serving on both the NYSBA and the American Bar Association houses of delegates, and chair of their ethics committees, Krane was elected the youngest state bar president (at the age of 44) in 2001. and co-chair of the New York Judicial Institute on Professionalism in the Law.