Scott P. Lewis , Partner 
Scott Lewis has handled a diverse array of trials, appeals and regulatory matters for clients throughout the United States for over 30 years. Scott regularly serves as lead counsel in complex commercial and regulatory litigation for private sector clients. Scott also represents many public sector clients, including governmental airport owners from all across the country, in a wide variety of challenging regulatory enforcement actions, civil litigation and appeals. His private and public sector cases often involve intricate economic or scientific issues. Scott is an active participant in the civil rights and law reform community and frequently handles politically-charged constitutional litigation. Scott brought his practice from Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge (formerly Palmer & Dodge) to Anderson & Kreiger in July 2006. Scott’s experience includes:
- Lead counsel to 46 States in major tobacco litigation.
- Represents dozens of airport owners in regulatory enforcement and other matters.
- Lead counsel to major biotechnology company in various commercial litigation.
- Successfully defended “whistleblower” action against dozens of airport owners in federal court in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Represents workers’ compensation insurance industry in regulatory matters in Massachusetts.
- Successfully represented a major mutual fund company in precedent-setting litigation involving the moral rights of artists.
- Represented airport industry in various appeals in the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Sixth, Ninth, Eleventh and District of Columbia Circuits.
- Successfully defended precedent-setting consumer class action.
- Lead counsel in various prisoners’ rights actions involving free speech and conditions of confinement.
- Successfully defended municipality’s ban on the testing of nerve gas for the U.S. Army.
- Briefed and argued dozens of appeals in state and federal courts.
Scott has repeatedly been named as a “Super Lawyer” by his peers in Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he received his undergraduate degree in Economics magna cum laude, and Harvard Law School, where he received his law degree cum laude and was awarded the Beale Prize. He currently serves as the Chair of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Boston.
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