Stephen completed a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne and was admitted to practice in 1985. He joined McCracken & McCracken Lawyers as an Articled Clerk in 1984 and has been a partner since 1989.

His legal expertise is in the following areas:

• Property
• Wills and Estate Planning
• Deceased Estates
• Powers of Attorney & Guardianship
• Adoption

Former Legal Adviser to The Baptist Union of Victoria, for twenty years.

Former member of council of:

• Wycliffe Bible Translators Australia
• Summer Institute of Linguistics
• Interserve Australia
• The Baptist Union of Victoria