Scott Pearson concentrates his practice in complex commercial litigation, including class actions, unfair competition cases, director and officer claims, intellectual property disputes and other significant matters.

Mr. Pearson has extensive experience representing financial services and other companies in consumer class actions and cases brought under consumer protection statutes such as California’s Unfair Competition Law and Consumers Legal Remedies Act. He regularly advises clients on various regulatory, privacy and arbitration issues, including the enforceability of class action waivers.

Mr. Pearson also represents private equity and securities firms; biomedical, computer and aerospace equipment manufacturers; real estate companies and retailers in complex litigation. He encourages clients to assess cases early for opportunities to resolve them through motion practice or favorable settlements, but successfully has handled numerous arbitrations and trials.

Mr. Pearson is actively engaged in litigation reform efforts. Among other things, he helped draft Proposition 64, an initiative measure which significantly reformed California’s Unfair Competition Law.

Before joining Stroock, Mr. Pearson was an extern law clerk to the Honorable Alicemarie H. Stotler of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Pearson managed political campaigns and directed lobbying and communications programs in California.

Activities

Board of Governors, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center;

Board of Editors, Privacy and Data Security Law Journal;

Co-author:

Sued for seeking a ZIP Code? SFGate/The San Francisco Chronicle, April 8, 2009;

Strategies for Multi-State Mortgage Foreclosure Part II California’s One Action and Anti-Deficiency Statutes, Stroock Special Bulletin, March 31, 2009;

Zip Codes and Retail Etiquette, Retailing Today, March 30, 2009;

A Return to the 1980s? Lenders Beware, The Banking Law Journal, January 2009 (also appeared as a Stroock Special Bulletin, November 25, 2008);

2008 Annual Overview of California’s Unfair Competition Law and Consumers Legal Remedies Act;

U.S. Supreme Court Reaffirms Separability Rule, Alternatives to the High Cost Of Litigation, April 2006;

"Summer Class Actions: U.S. and California Supreme Courts Revisit Arbitrability Issues," Alternatives to the High Cost Of Litigation, September 2005;

California Supreme Court Addresses Enforceability Of Class Action Waivers, Stroock Special Bulletin, June 28, 2005;

Proposition 64 Litigation Update: Courts Disagree on Whether Proposition 64 Applies to Pending Actions Stroock Special Bulletin, February 1, 2005;

"California Ballot Measure Seeks To Reform Unfair Competition Law," ACC America Focus, Third Quarter 2004

Admitted to Practice

California; U.S. District Court, Central, Southern, Northern, and Eastern Districts of California, Districts of Arizona and Colorado; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court

Education

J.D., University of Southern California Law Center, 1994; Editor-in-Chief, Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal; Editor-in-Chief, Major Tax Planning

B.A., cum laude, Claremont McKenna College, 1990