Scott joined Susman Godfrey after clerking for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Judge Loretta A. Preska of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.  Scott graduated from Columbia Law School, where he received the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Prize and served as an Articles Editor for the Columbia Law Review.  Before law school, Scott spent three years as an auditor at a Big Four accounting firm, and he passed the CPA exam.  Scott earned his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Bucknell University, where he was also a member of the baseball team.