Scott is a trial attorney.  Scott tries cases in Ohio and Kentucky.  Scott handles jury trials, bench trials, and appeals.  This is his focus.  The subject matter is secondary.

Watching Perry Mason and The Bold Ones with his Uncle Walter (then a clerk at Cravath Swaine & Moore), Scott wanted to be a lawyer from an early age.  The other side of his family, however, were scions of New Bedford whalers.  Answering the call to the sea, Scott attended Annapolis because his congressman, Ben Gilman, was besieged with 800 applications for West Point and 5 for the Naval Academy.  Knowing his grandfather was in charge of the third shift at Fisher Body/GM in Tarrytown, Scott pursued a degree in mechanical engineering, which he ultimately prayed he would never have to use.  Unlike the law, there is only one right answer in engineering.  At the Academy, doctors discovered Scott was colorblind and he feared he would be disqualified from further service.  Fortunately, the doctor explained that “The Navy examines your eyes but the Marines only count them.”  So, Scott left for Quantico to become a Jarhead.  Scott later took a walk-in LSAT and persuaded the Corps to send him to law school.  He paid them back with time, spending four years at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and Okinawa, Japan, as a prosecutor. A tour at Headquarters in Research & Policy followed, where he was honored with the ABA’s award for the outstanding military lawyer, was awarded a Meritorious Service medal, and earned an MBA at night.  Scott then did a stint teaching civil law at the Justice School, the Navy’s indoctrination course for new lawyers in Newport, Rhode Island.   There, he taught new lawyers, edited the Naval Law Review, wrote handbooks for Staff Judge Advocates and Environmental Lawyers, travelled the world from Rota to Seoul teaching ship captains the international law they needed, and earned a second Meritorious Service medal.  When his debt for law school was paid, Scott came to Cincinnati and grabbed an oar at Dinsmore.  Later, he and a partner broke away and started their own firm.  In 2005, a college classmate persuaded Scott to join the Hemmer firm where he handled trial matters for his partners for the next two decades.  In January 2026, Scott joined the Finney Law Firm as Senior Counsel.  Scott is AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®.  Scott is a frequent lecturer on advocacy topics, hoping to pay forward the time his mentors spent on him over the last 40 years.

Scott lives in Milford, Ohio, with his wife Michele, and her Maltese, Gigi.  When not presenting to juries, Scott tends his garden, feeds birds, deer and the racoons who live under his deck, cares for bees, makes compost, shoots clay pigeons, explores new dinner recipes, shapes leather, cuts glass, works wood, re-reads Lonesome Dove, Dune, and Shogun, and watches re-runs of NYPD Blue.

Admitted to Practice:

• New York, 1983
• Ohio, 1993
• Kentucky, 2005
• United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio
• United States District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky
• United States Sixth Circuit Courts of Appeals

Education:

Albany Law School, J.D. 1983

Golden Gate University, M.B.A., 1989

U.S. Naval Academy, B.S.M.E., 1978

Memberships, Honors and Community Involvement:

Cincinnati Bar Association

Northern Kentucky Bar Association