Steve Oberman is of counsel to the Oberman, Rice & Zadeh Law Firm, practicing primarily DUI defense law and criminal defense law 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 Winston College of Law since 1993. He is a two-time Fulbright Scholar, having taught American Criminal Law and American Trial Advocacy in 2019 at the University of Latvia Faculty of Law and the same courses at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Law in 2024.  Steve has also taught for a semester 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 (in 2023); Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Faculty of Law (in Madrid, Spain in 2025); and the University of Gdańsk (in Gdańsk, Poland in 2026). Furthermore, Steve has guest lectured on various topics of American advocacy and law in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and 12 foreign countries  hroughout the world.

He is co-author of “Drunk Driving Defense,” (10th edition) with Lawrence Taylor (1942-2023), and author of “DUI: The Crime & Consequences in Tennessee.”