About

Steve Oberman is the managing partner of The Oberman & Rice Law Firm, practicing DUI defense law and criminal defense law in general primarily in Knoxville and the East Tennessee region of the state.

Since 1980, he has successfully represented thousands of clients charged with DUI and related cases. He also has defended those accused of serious crimes in federal and state court including, bank fraud, embezzlement, homicide, all types of drug cases, and a variety of white-collar crimes.

Oberman has been an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee Law School since 1993. In 2019, he taught American Criminal Law and American Trial Advocacy at the University of Latvia as a Fulbright Professor of Law. In 2023, he taught the same courses at Eötvös Loránd University, in Budapest, Hungary—the oldest continuously operating university in Hungary and ranked in the top 2% of universities in the world.

He is co-author of “Drunk Driving Defense,” with Lawrence Taylor, and author of “DUI: The Crime & Consequences in Tennessee.”