Scott Shuchart's career spans high-impact litigation, public oversight, and directing federal regulatory affairs. For more than twenty years, he has represented an exceptionally broad range of clients, from hedge funds and insurers to refugees, criminal defendants, unaccompanied children, and nonprofit organizations in complex federal litigation and industry arbitration. His practice focuses on administrative law, complex motions practice, and appellate advocacy.

As a public servant, Scott led federal investigations into racial profiling and immigration detention centers holding parents and children before leading the policy and regulatory affairs office at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A nationally recognized expert on border security and immigration policy, as well as a noted whistleblower on the unlawful separation of families at the southern border in 2018, he has appeared on 60 Minutes and PBS NewsHour, and is frequently published and quoted in national media outlets. 

After clerking on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Scott litigated at Altshuler Berzon LLP; Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP; the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC); and as the first Senior Director for Legal Strategy at Kids in Need of Defense (KIND). He taught Supreme Court and appellate litigation at Yale Law School from 2008 to 2010.

Scott holds degrees from Yale Law School, Oxford University, and Harvard University. He is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia as well as many federal courts.

Scott is an avid cook, and reads comic books when his children allow it.

Education

Yale Law, J.D.

Oxford University, B. Phil in Philosophy

Harvard University, B.A. magna cum laude in Philosophy

Admissions

District of Columbia

New York

Awards

Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling, 2019