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Lehigh Business
Stephanie Prevost
Professor of Practice of Law
Perella Department of Finance
Office: RBC 262
stp321@lehigh.edu
610-758-2792
Courses Taught
- LAW 201: Legal Environment of Business
- LAW 417: Regulatory Environment of Business
Before joining Lehigh’s faculty, Stephanie served as the COO/General Counsel of a boutique investment advisory firm focused on utility-scale renewable financing. She has also held legal and business roles at a large law firm and in the banking industry. Stephanie is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts and holds several FINRA licenses, including the 7, SIE, 24, and 99. Outside of teaching at Lehigh, Stephanie provides legal and compliance consulting services to corporate clients.
Stephanie is an active member of the greater Lehigh Valley community and serves on the Board of Directors of the Parkland Community Library and an advisory panel for Community Action Lehigh Valley’s Sixth Street Shelter. She provides pro bono consulting services for various non-profits in the greater Philadelphia area through her company and through Compass Pro Bono. Stephanie also serves as a Level 1 coach for a local youth mountain biking team. Previously, Stephanie was a trustee for the Circle of Seasons charter school in Fogelsville, PA, and a legal observer for the Lehigh County ballot canvassing during the 2020 and 2024 elections.
In addition to her classroom teaching, Stephanie has held workshops for students relating to the LSAT Exam, the Bar Exam, FINRA licensing exams, and non-compete provisions in job offers, and participated in panels discussing, among other things, creative teaching approaches, how conflicting state laws can impact businesses and how state and corporate policies can alleviate wage gaps.
- Proactive Efforts to Eliminate Sexual Harassment by Clients. Forthcoming Spring 2025 in Business Horizons.
- Addresses the issue of sexual harassment by high value clients in client-oriented professional industries and proactive approaches employers can take to prevent such harassment, including the use of contract design.
Awards/Honors
- Recipient of $2,000 Senior CITL Faculty Fellowship/Course Development Grant from Lehigh University to support efforts to develop on online gamification project to help develop Law 201 undergraduate students’ understanding and negotiation of contracts.
- Selected as a Lehigh University Global Teaching and Learning Fellow for 2024.
- Named an “In-House Leader” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in 2016.
- Received a Presidential Volunteer Service Award in 2016 for service provided to the Sixth Street Shelter.