Scott leads the firm’s Environmental Litigation practice with MBG partner Sarah Siskind, working to protect people and their property from industrial polluters. Scott was co-lead class counsel for a class of thousands of current and former residents in a nuisance, negligence, and trespass class action against an Iowa corn mill. The $51.5 settlement of that case secured significant payments to class members and required the defendant to spend millions upgrading its pollution controls.

Learn more about the Freeman v. Grain Processing Corp. Settlement

 Scott has worked with Sierra Club as trial counsel in Clean Air Act litigation and counseled many individual clients and advocacy groups on air and water contamination issues. Currently, Scott represents numerous individual plaintiffs suing a medical sterilization company for personal injuries caused by its excessive and dangerous air emissions, serving on the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in those cases, and co-leads a nuisance/negligence class of more than 100,000 residents suing a steel manufacturer for infringing their property rights.

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He was a featured presenter on environmental nuisance litigation at a national Sierra Club conference, and played a key role in securing designation for MBG as Panel Member on the Environmental Counsel Panel for the State of Delaware.

For more than 10 years, Scott served as counsel to eight states in the Average Wholesale Price (“AWP”) litigation and related litigation against dozens of drug manufacturers and other entities under consumer protection laws, Medicaid fraud, false advertising statutes, and state false claims acts. That litigation sought redress for damage to state Medicaid programs caused by the publication of false and deceptive drug prices. Scott was involved in every aspect of AWP litigation from discovery to participating in numerous trials. He worked closely with state clients and witnesses, and oversaw large-scale discovery. Together with the rest of the MBG team, Scott’s efforts resulted in nearly $1.2 billion in settlements and judgments after trial.

Scott represents both plaintiffs and defendants in discrimination cases and employment disputes, including national class actions and individual cases before state, local and federal agencies. He represents individuals and groups facing sexual harassment and discrimination at work based on race, national origin, sex, age and disability. Scott also has represented clients in wage, hour and overtime disputes, and has expertise in all types of contract disputes, including those concerning severance, employee benefits, non-compete, and non-solicitation agreements.

Since the beginning of his professional career, Scott has worked with hospitals and physician clients on a variety of healthcare law topics. He has extensive and successful jury trial experience in these cases, and has advised hospital clients on affiliation and disaffiliation issues, third-party payor litigation and other medicolegal claims.