Scott Greenspan's Biography

Scott Greenspan is a seasoned commercial, insurance coverage and products liability litigator. Throughout his career, he has represented a host of large corporations in contractual disputes, franchise disputes, electronic discovery disputes, employment disputes, real estate litigation, intellectual property disputes, defamation disputes, bankruptcy disputes, lending disputes, and advertising industry disputes.

As a member of the firm’s Insurance Industry Team, Mr. Greenspan represents insurers in a host of coverage matters involving many different types of insurance policies and claims.

Scott Greenspan served for over two years as National Litigation Coordinating Counsel to a publicly traded specialty financial company which is the nation’s largest provider of financing and advertising in the taxicab industry. In that capacity, he served as the company’s chief advisor and primary outside litigator in commercial litigation and lending cases all over the country.

Mr. Greenspan also has experience in International Arbitration and recently successfully represented a Latin American restaurant franchisee in an arbitration against the world’s largest restaurant franchisor, garnering an award from the three-arbitrator panel that the franchisor had acted in bad faith toward the franchisee.

Mr. Greenspan also is experienced in First Amendment litigation and was part of a team that overturned a tax imposed by a southern state on certain types of controversial programming. He has also represented several tobacco and medical device manufacturers in product liability litigation and a number of real estate builders and developers in toxic mold litigation.


Litigation Matters:
Mr. Greenspan’s experience includes:

Successfully defending The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries that own the Walt Disney World Resort in several actions brought in New York federal court, winning motions to dismiss in both cases which held that the Disney entities that own The Walt Disney World Resort cannot be sued in any court in the State of New York because New York lacks personal jurisdiction over them, including the published decision of Intermor v. Walt Disney Co., 250 F. Supp. 2d 116 (E.D.N.Y. 2003).


Representing Medallion Financial Corp., Medallion Funding Corp. and Medallion Taxi Media, Inc. in a number of commercial litigation and lending actions in states around the country, earning Medallion substantial victories in those matters.


Representing policyholders in insurance coverage litigation matters for over seven years and recovering over $100 million for those clients. Those matters involved virtually every type of liability or property policy and concerned, among other things claims for environmental liability, property damage, business interruption, toxic tort injury, products liability, asbestos, Builder’s Risk, September 11th-related claims, collapse claims, employment practices liability, school system liability, Directors and Officers and Errors and Omissions. Insureds represented by Mr. Greenspan in those high-stakes insurance coverage matters includes two of the nation’s largest airlines, two of the nation’s largest airports, several of the nation’s largest drug and medical device manufacturers, a number of the nation’s largest real estate developers and property management companies, one of Arizona’s largest school districts and one of the most expensive cooperative apartment buildings in Manhattan. Mr. Greenspan’s substantial prior insured-side coverage experience gives him an invaluable perspective which he now applies to his insurer-side coverage practice at Sedgwick.


Representing a large family of advertising and marketing companies, which included one of the nation’s largest advertising agencies. Mr. Greenspan represented these advertising and marketing clients in broken mergers, employment disputes and national tobacco litigation involving advertising campaigns conducted by these clients. He successfully represented these companies in fending off burdensome requests for electronic discovery materials, including a request for all of the companies' e-mails stored on backup tapes.


Representing the nation’s leading cable news network in a number of complex commercial litigation actions in New York courts arising from disputes between the network and some of the cable systems that carried it. Mr. Greenspan successfully resolved all of those cases for the cable network, resulting in substantial settlements.


Defending two of the nation’s major tobacco manufacturers in product liability litigation in states around the country as well as a leading manufacturer of breast implants.

Affiliations & Accomplishments:
Scott Greenspan is admitted to practice law in the State of New York (1996) and the District of Columbia (1998). He is also admitted to the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern District of New York (1996) and to the bar of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1999)

Mr. Greenspan currently is a member of the American Bar Association and its sections on: (1) Tort and Insurance Practice; and (2) Litigation. Mr. Greenspan is also a member of the Insurance Coverage Committee of the ABA’s Section on Litigation. Mr. Greenspan is active in the ABA and has served as a Judge to the ABA’s National Moot Court Competition, which simulates United States Supreme Court arguments on constitutional issues. Mr. Greenspan is also a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association.

Mr. Greenspan serves as the President and Chairman of the Board of Directors and Board of Managers of Hawthorne Owners Corp. and the 211 East 53rd St. Condominium, which collectively constitute a large coop building on Manhattan’s East Side.


Presentations & Publications:
“Emerging Caselaw Governing the Preservation and Production of Electronic Documents – and the Consequences for Those Who Do Not Preserve and Produce Electronic Documents,” presented as part of Electronic Records Management & Discovery seminar cosponsored by Sedgwick and Kroll Ontrack Inc., November 2005 (Los Angeles, CA & San Francisco, CA);


“Compliance Standards for Retention and Production of Electronic Documents – Knowing the Do’s and Don’ts,” presentation as part of “Corporate Compliance: Do's & Don’ts” panel featured during Corporate Counsel Community Forum conference, organized by the Greater New York Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel and the ABA Section of Business Law’s Committee on Corporate Counsel, November 2005;


“Seventeen Secrets for Survival as a First-Year Associate at a Large Law Firm,” New York Law Journal Magazine (“First-Year Associates” issue), September 2005;


Directors Roundtable, "Emerging Caselaw Governing the Preservation and Production of Electronic Documents – and the Consequences for Those Who Do Not Preserve and Produce Electronic Documents,” Spring 2005 (Silicon Valley, CA) & Winter 2005 (New York, NY);


"Cost Effective Legal Research Strategies for Commercial Litigation," WESFACCA (Westchester/Southern Connecticut Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel) seminar, Fall 2004; and


"Is Toxic Mold the Next Asbestos?", seminar for major New York commercial property owners, managers and insurers, Fall 2002.

Education:
Mr. Greenspan received his B.A. (1992), Magna Cum Laude, from The American University where he majored in Political Science and was a member of Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society. His J.D. (1995) is from New York University School of Law.

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