z.scott@kayescholer.com
芝加哥
T: (312) 583-2347
F: (312) 583-2544
Z. Scott is Kaye Scholer’s Chicago Co-Chair of the White Collar Litigation and Internal Investigations Practice. Ms. Scott is a seasoned trial lawyer, having taken more than 40 mostly jury trials to verdict in federal court. She concentrates her practice on complex commercial litigation, corporate internal investigations (including matters related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act), counseling on corporate compliance matters and white collar criminal defense. Her federal civil and criminal litigation experience includes accounting and commercial fraud, public corruption, civil tax appeals and criminal tax prosecutions, money-laundering and investment, and financial institution fraud. She has also led and represented companies in complex and extensive government regulatory and criminal grand jury investigations. Ms. Scott has experience in appellate practice. She has briefed and argued cases before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
全部显示Ms. Scott served as Executive Inspector General for the Office of the Governor of Illinois (2003-2005), where she established and managed an internal compliance and investigative agency for Illinois government and Illinois public universities. Her experience included participation and oversight of over 200 internal investigations of state vendors and state employees, as well as counseling members of the Governor's cabinet and state senior managers, including agency directors, on issues related to personnel policies, internal controls, ethics and systemic personnel problems. Ms. Scott also worked closely with the state's internal auditor and the Illinois Auditor General in matters related to integrity of state government functions.
Prior to her work in Illinois government, Ms. Scott served as a federal criminal prosecutor with the United States Attorney's Office (1987-2003), where she held various management positions, including Chief of the General Crimes Section. As Chief, she was responsible for the supervision of Section Deputies and Line Assistant U.S. Attorneys, and she reviewed and approved hundreds of federal prosecutions and participated in strategy sessions related to federal indictments and federal criminal trials. Before joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, she served in the Office of the Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago (1983-1987).
Ms. Scott served as an adjunct instructor in trial advocacy for 13 years at Northwestern University School of Law (1993-2005), where she led a team of five adjunct professors and was awarded the recognition of Outstanding Adjunct Professor in Trial Advocacy in 1999. She also taught trial advocacy at The John Marshall School of Law (2002-2004), and co-taught classes at the University of Chicago Law School on criminal sentencing and federal criminal law (2001, 2003). According to Legal 500 US, Ms. Scott has an "impeccable reputation among clients," and was named to Illinois Super Lawyers (2009 - 2011) and The Best Lawyers in America (2009 - 2011). She is a frequent lecturer on issues related to federal criminal law, electronic discovery, ethics and compliance policies, and trial advocacy.
Representative Matters
- Represented Siemens Medical Solutions in a multi-defendant federal prosecution in which the company was charged with fraud in connection with representations made to Cook County regarding compliance with minority business enterprise requirements (United States v. Siemens Medical Solutions, et al.).
- Served on the legal team representing a banking compliance consulting company before the federal Department of the Treasury Office of Thrift Supervision.
- Served on the legal team representing Ernst & Young in a professional malpractice case (Alabama Hospital Ass’n. v. General Reinsurance, et al., CV 2004-1172 P).
- Represented a public health care company in a State Attorney General False Claims Act investigation.
- Designed FCPA compliance programs for global public and private companies.
- Served on the legal team representing a public energy company in its billion-dollar tax controversy dispute with the IRS.
- Successfully represented a title insurance company in an Illinois civil case raising fraud claims. Court dismissed claims on motion to dismiss.
Civic Activities
- Chicago State University, Board of Trustees, Board Vice Chair and Chair of Finance & Audit Committee
- Chicago Area Project, Board Chair (not-for-profit organization supporting activities for at-risk inner city children)
- Chicago Housing Authority, Chair, Board of Trustees
- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Chicago Alumnae Chapter
- Museum of Science and Industry, Black Creativity Council
- The Ancona School, Board of Trustees
- Jack and Jill, Chicago Chapter
Professional Activities
- Black Women Lawyers’ Association, Member, President 2003–2004, Board Member, 2002–2005
- The Economic Club of Chicago
- Chicago Bar Association, Chair, Criminal Law Committee, 2005–2006
- American Inns of Court, Chicago Chapter, 2004 to date, President, 2010–11
- Leadership Greater Chicago, 1990–91; Candidate Selection Committee, 2007, 2008
- Illinois Supreme Court Character and Fitness Committee, 2006 to date
- Northern District of Illinois Magistrate Judge Screening Committee, March 2007
- National Institute for Trial Advocacy (“NITA”), Instructor