Counsel for high-stakes investigations, regulatory compliance, and professional defense.
Over more than twenty years, Jeff Steltzer has built and led research compliance, research integrity, conflict of interest, export control, and research security programs at major research universities. That experience now shapes how he represents clients navigating those same systems.
The distinction is not simply legal experience. It is having worked inside the systems his clients must now navigate.
Steltzer Law represents individuals and institutions navigating the same high-stakes systems, from both sides.
One method, applied to what your matter actually requires.
Assess
We begin by understanding the situation, the process likely to govern it, and what's actually at stake — before proposing any course of action.
Prepare
We prepare the response, documentation, or strategy the specific situation requires — informed by direct experience inside the institutions and systems involved.
Navigate
We help you navigate what comes next, on a timeline you understand, toward the strongest position available in your specific matter.
Every matter is different — a research misconduct inquiry, a licensing board complaint, and an institutional investigation each follow their own specific process. This is the method underneath all of them. The stages that apply to your situation are described on the relevant page below.
More than twenty years inside the institutions this practice now serves.
- Georgia State University
- Georgia Tech
- Emory University
- Huron Consulting Group
- State Bar of Georgia
He built these programs from the ground up at three institutions — including Georgia State's export control program and the first conflict-of-interest office at Georgia Tech, which oversaw a research portfolio exceeding a billion dollars — and helped develop Georgia State's research security framework as part of a broader institutional effort.
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Licensed to practice law in Georgia and admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Research misconduct and Social Security Disability matters may be handled nationwide. Professional license defense and personal injury and wrongful death matters are limited to Georgia unless paired with licensed local counsel. Other advisory and compliance matters are evaluated individually.
The earliest conversations matter most.
Every consultation is confidential.