Scott has obtained jury verdicts in favor of his clients on scores of occasions in state and federal courts since 1985. He has settled hundreds of other cases without the necessity or risk of trial. In 1986, Scott obtained the first reported multi-million dollar jury verdict ($3.3 million) in the United States on behalf of a single employment discrimination victim in Vance v. Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co., which went to trial here in Jacksonville, in federal court. More recently, during the past few years, Scott and his staff have made recoveries totaling several million dollars on behalf of his clients.

Scott has a reputation for being tenacious and creative while advocating for his clients. He is rated “AV” by his peers, which is the highest rating an attorney can receive concerning ethics and legal ability. He is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, in several federal courts, and all courts in the State of Florida. For nearly twenty years, Scott taught trial skills to other lawyers from around the country, as a faculty member of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He is also certified as a mediator by the Florida Supreme Court. Scott is also a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association, The Florida Bar, and the Jacksonville Bar Association.  He is currently co-chair of the Jacksonville Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Committee.

Scott usually represents no more than 10-15 individuals at a time to ensure that he can be personally involved in every case. Naturally, there is no guarantee that Scott or his firm can make any specific recovery in any particular case. Each case must be evaluated based on its own unique facts and circumstances.

Scott has obtained hundreds of jury verdicts, arbitration awards and settlements on behalf of his clients since 1985. In the past few years he has obtained multi-million dollar recoveries on behalf of several highly compensated persons who were wrongfully terminated. Scott recently assisted a 51-year-old, high-level executive of a Fortune 500 company receive more than $10 million in deferred compensation after being forced to “retire” early, due to political pressure from his superiors. In a case against an international banking organization, Scott’s client recovered an arbitration award in excess of $4 million after being terminated due to his age, in order to make way for the “young guns” he’d been supervising. In a case against a financial services firm, Scott’s female client recovered in excess of $2 million at mediation, after being terminated because of her alleged “affair” with a superior. (Significantly, her male superior was not disciplined for the same alleged “affair.”) In 2016, Scott recovered more than $400,000 on behalf of a 60-year-old marketing manager who was wrongfully terminated because of his age and nationality. Scott also recently helped a 50-year-old district manager recover an additional $300,000 in severance benefits, after being terminated in 2016 to make way for a younger replacement.  In 2015, Scott obtained more than $900,000 at mediation on behalf of a CEO wrongfully terminated in violation of his written employment contract.

In 2017, Scott helped his client recover half a million dollars after his client’s employer failed to pay the full amount of incentive compensation it had agreed earlier in the year to pay him. After Scott’s client had made a multi-million dollar sale, the multi-national employer reneged on its agreement to pay a commission equal to a flat percentage of the total sale amount, arbitrarily “capping” the payout at several hundred thousand dollars. The employer’s position was that the written agreement governing incentive pay was not a “binding contract.” Scott was able to help his client recover an additional $500,000 without having to file suit.

Scott has obtained recoveries of several hundred thousand dollars each on behalf of employees who were terminated after reporting dangerous or illegal conditions at their places of employment.  In 2015 Scott obtained nearly $400,000 on behalf of a mechanic who was fired after reporting dangerous workplace conditions to OSHA.

In the employment law field, Scott has worked with officer-level managers since 1985, and has represented employees who have been discriminated against due to their age, gender, race, disability, national origin or religion. Based on his experience and after passing a comprehensive written examination administered by the Florida Bar, Scott is Board Certified by the Florida Supreme court in the specialty of Labor and Employment Law. He prevailed in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of a client whose jury verdict had been overturned on appeal.  Scott has decades of experience representing men and women who have been terminated or punished in some way because of a chronic health condition; sudden or expensive medical bills; because they suffered a valid workers’ compensation injury; or because they objected to or refused to go along with any illegal activity by their employers.

Scott and his team recently represented a woman who had been fired from her clerical position with a national trucking firm after her husband, who was an insured on her employer-provided health insurance policy, had incurred nearly one million dollars in medical bills. Scott was able to secure a neutral reference and five year’s pay for his client.

Scott obtained a settlement of approximately $400,000 on behalf of a wrongfully terminated warehouse worker making approximately $12 per hour. Scott’s client was “downsized” in a reduction in force less than a month after his wife was diagnosed with cancer. Scott alleged that the employer had fired his client in order to avoid paying for his wife’s medical treatment, which was expected to be very expensive.

Scott and his client won an age discrimination case in federal court on behalf of a 62-year-old crane operator who was laid-off due to an alleged lack of work, and was replaced a few months later by a much younger operator.  In addition to his client’s age, the employer was motivated to fire him due to the fact that his client’s wife had expensive medical conditions which had been paid for by the client’s employer.  Mr. Fortune’s client recovered nearly $900,000.00 at trial, including attorneys’ fees and costs.

In 2017 and 2018, Scott and his firm have represented, or are representing several employees with disability claims under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), and the Florida Civil Rights Act. In 2018, Scott is representing the former President and CEO of a large financial firm who was wrongly terminated after nearly 20 years of employment, within weeks after being diagnosed with cancer.

Scott has represented men and women who have been denied promotions due to their gender, their race or their disability, and based on other protected categories. He tried a case in federal court in Jacksonville on behalf of a black grocery store “Assistant” Manager who had been performing the duties of a Store Manager, but without the title, prestige or pay of a Store Manager. The jury awarded a six-figure amount for mental anguish and back pay, and the store was required to promote Scott’s client to the Store Manager position. In 2018, Scott represented a client of Asian Indian origin who was denied equal pay and an equal management title, despite the fact that he was performing the work of his “white” peers in a highly commendatory manner.  Scott’s client was terminated during a so-called “reduction in force” shortly after asking to be treated equally with respect to his title and compensation.

In 2017, Scott represented a group of female financial professionals who were paid substantially less than their male counterparts for performing similar work, but with different job titles. Scott and his clients reached a settlement which provided his clients with a substantial lump sum to compensate them for the gender-based differences in their pay during the past several years, plus attorneys’ fees, and his clients also received substantial pay increases to put them on parity with their male counterparts. Scott recently represented a female HR Manger with a national accounting firm who was treated less favorably than her male counterparts, as well as being paid less than them. Scott’s client was excluded from many management meetings and received smaller salary and bonuses than her male peers. Scott’s client was able to have her pay and bonuses increased, with back pay to make up for her past salary and bonuses, and she has since been promoted.