Experience
His specialist subject is Public Inquiries, the duty of candour and crisis management, specifically dealing with the media and handling regulators following serious incidents. He works across the Construction/Infrastructure, Insurance, Road haulage, Food, Oil and Gas sectors providing expertise in health and safety regulation as well as compliance training and audits.
Steffan’s Public Inquiry team acts for the Inquiry legal teams and also various Core Participants. They work with a large document review team of paralegals with expertise in Relativity amongst other document review platforms.
Steffan has been at DWF for 25 years and works on a national basis. In his role as Head of Regulatory, he created the firm's Crisis Response Service, which is designed to provide clients with a legal service incorporating media advice and employee well-being. This aims to protect clients' reputations when they are in the middle of a crisis situation.
He is commended in the Legal 500 directory and in Chambers and Partners (2012) as 'Best in UK'. Chambers also states that he has an "exceptional legal mind," while maintaining a "calm and understated manner."
He has previously chaired the UK Health and Safety Lawyers Association, which resulted in his being asked to attend a Select committee hearing, speak at national conferences and liaise with governmental advisors on policy development.
Steffan has worked on many ground breaking precedent setting cases, in particular Grenfell Tower Inquiry, COVID Inquiry, Southport Inquiry, R v HTM, R v Porter and R v Lion Steel.
As well as trying to look after his clients to the very best of his ability, Steffan also enjoys cycling and horse riding, recently trying his hand at polo.
Testimonial
Steffan Groch has an "exceptional legal mind," while maintaining a "calm and understated manner."
Chambers and Partners
Steffan was named in Safety & Health Practitioner's Most Influential Figures in Health & Safety >