In his criminal defense practice, Scott has represented clients charged with a variety of white-collar and financial crimes, such as honest services fraud, mail and wire fraud, insider trading, insurance fraud, health care fraud, embezzlement/grand theft, money laundering, and sanctions-related offenses. He regularly achieves highly favorable results for his clients, which has included complete dismissals, declinations, reduced charges, and no-jail sentences.  In 2024, the Daily Journal named Scott as one of the top White Collar Defense Lawyers in California.

Scott is also an experienced and effective civil litigator, having represented plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts and in alternative dispute resolution forums across the country. Among other matters, Scott was recently lead counsel in a multi-forum dissolution proceeding involving a Los Angeles-based hedge fund, which settled on extremely favorable terms. Scott has also defended clients in health care fraud, breach of contract, intellectual property, trade secret, and employment discrimination matters, among other subjects.

Before founding the firm, Scott served for over seven years as an Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles and Orange County. In that capacity, Scott led over one hundred federal grand jury investigations and prosecuted dozens of prominent white-collar cases, including health care fraud, embezzlement, bank fraud, honest services fraud, and money laundering cases. 

Among other notable matters, Scott prosecuted what has been described as the largest healthcare fraud in California history, involving nearly $1 billion in fraudulent billings generated by over $50 million in illegal kickback payments. Scott also devoted significant attention to combating violent crime throughout Southern California, including leading the investigation and prosecution of a 22-defendant robbery conspiracy described by GQ magazine as “one of the most sophisticated and lucrative smash-and-grab sprees in U.S. history.”  For his work as a federal prosecutor, Scott was awarded the Department of Justice’s prestigious Director’s Award for Superior Performance as an AUSA in 2020 and was presented with the 2019 ATF Honor Award by the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.  He also earned commendations from FBI Directors James Comey and Christopher Wray for his work combatting violent crime and health care fraud.

Before his tenure with the Department of Justice, Scott was a commercial litigator and white-collar defense attorney in the New York offices of Wilson Sonsini and Latham & Watkins. In those positions, he represented clients in “bet-the-company” litigation and federal criminal matters and conducted sensitive internal investigators for corporate clients across an array of industries.

From 2007 to 2008, Scott served as a law clerk to United States District Judge Cormac J. Carney in the Central District of California.