Scott is a strategic partner who works side by side with clients to understand their unique workplace challenges and transform those insights into tailored, high-impact strategies that make a real difference.
Before entering law, Scott lived and worked abroad as a teacher in several countries—an experience that continues to shape how he practices today. He brings a global mindset to his work, helping clients navigate complex, evolving workplaces and diverse teams with agility and confidence. Through this lens, he provides advice in highly regulated sectors—including healthcare—where employment decisions intersect with strict compliance requirements, operational continuity, and multiple stakeholder expectations. Leveraging his teaching background, Scott excels at helping leadership teams grasp not just what the law requires, but why it matters—translating complex legal obligations into real-world, actionable guidance.
Scott provides counsel across all stages of the employee lifecycle, including:
- Talent acquisition & onboarding
- Performance management
- Workplace policies & compliance
- Training & development
- Employee relations, workplace investigations, & conflict resolution
- Trade secrets
- Terminations & offboarding
- Regulatory & risk management
A trial-tested employment litigator, Scott defends employers in federal and state courts—including class actions, multi-plaintiff, and single-plaintiff lawsuits—and represents clients before government agencies against all types of employment claims. He combines deep courtroom experience with practical insight to protect employers when it matters most and resolve disputes efficiently.
Practice Highlights
Trial victory
Arbitration award
For U.S. Post Acute Care, secured a complete arbitration victory, in which the arbitrator summarily rejected a former employee's claims that she was subject to workplace racial and gender-based discrimination, breach of contract, and unlawful wage withholding. (2021)
Arbitration award
Admitted to Practice
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Hawaii
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Washington
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U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
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U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington
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U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Washington
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U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii
Education
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J.D., William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 2013
- Editor, Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal
- Entrepreneurship & Small Business Clinic
- CALI Excellence Awards for Labor and Employment Law and Comparative Asian Labor and Employment Law
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M.B.A., Shidler College of Business, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 2013
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M.A., Educational Psychology, Ball State University, 2017
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B.S., Global Business and Public Policy, University of Maryland Global Campus, 2010, magna cum laude
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B.A., Political Science, American Politics and Policy, University of Central Florida, 2002
Memberships & Affiliations
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- American Bar Association
- Washington Defense Trial Lawyers
- King County Bar Association
- Association for Conflict Resolution
- Society for Human Resource Management
- At-Large Member, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Jewish Community Relations Council
Professional Recognition
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- Named "One to Watch" by Best Lawyers in Litigation - Labor and Employment, 2025
Background
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- Attorney, Fisher Phillips, Seattle, 2019-2021
- Attorney, Dentons, Honolulu, 2015-2019
- Attorney, Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, Honolulu, 2014-2015
- Legal Research Assistant, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law, Honolulu, 2011-2014