I can tell you that it really doesn't matter if he is there or not.
Think of it this way… Steve is an MD and head of a large medical clinic... and you have a brain tumor. Well Steve (even though his is a great MD)is not going to do surgery on you! No he is going to have one of the surgeons in the clinic do it who is well versed in this type of surgery. My point is... this is not the movies and there is rarely a person that can be a master of every type of litigation.