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Martha (Mattie) Buell Scott is Of Counsel in the Monterey office and co-chair of the Charter School practice group. She has practiced education law in California for the past 26 years. Her practice crosses a variety of subject areas, including general education, labor and employment, special education, student issues, school finance, school district reorganization, federal and state constitutional issues, and the laws relating to English language learners. She also advises school districts on all matters concerning charter schools, including petition review, oversight, revocation, and charter school facilities requests under Proposition 39
Prior to joining Lozano Smith in October 2003, Ms. Scott was Special Counsel to Miller, Brown & Dannis. Her background also includes five years of solo practice in education law, from 1984 to 1988. Before that, she was first an associate and then a partner with Breon, Galgani, Godino & O'Donnell.
Ms. Scott is active in the International Association for the Semiotics of Law. Some of her publications include: "Love, Lust, Lies, Mozart, and the Office of the Special Prosecutor," We, the People, 1999; "A Functional Examination of Hate Speech," Semiotics, 1997; "We, the People: Revolution and Authorial Identity," Revolutions, Institutions, Law, 1998; and "Sexual Harassment: A Semiotic Perspective," Semiotics, 1996. | 