Patrick Scott
USA Guide 2023
Band 5 : Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Band 5
About
Provided by Patrick Scott
Practice Areas
Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Religious Organizations
Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights
Banking and Finance
Appellate and Trial Support
Professional Memberships
American Board of Certification
- Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law
The Bankruptcy Bar Association of the Southern District of Florida, Past Presidents Council
The American Bankruptcy Institute
Broward County Bar Association
Publications
Pat has written articles in the insolvency field since 1991.
Experience
Pat is a bankruptcy law attorney admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in Florida, including the bankruptcy courts of all three districts. He holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell and is listed in Best Lawyers in America.
During the past 43 years, Pat has represented debtors, creditors, creditors’ committees and trustees in virtually every type of chapters 7 and 11 case. He has experience with health care, manufacturing, construction, real estate and retail cases, as well as cases involving stockbroker (SIPC) liquidations, Ponzi schemes, and offshore schemes. He has also tried hundreds of cases and evidentiary hearings in the bankruptcy courts and has more than 40 decisions in his clients’ favor published in West’s Bankruptcy Reporter. Pat successfully represented the defendant in the only jury trial that has been held in the Southern District of Florida bankruptcy courts. A lecturer on topics of bankruptcy and commercial litigation, he is the author of a Sanders Award-winning article on mortgage foreclosures as fraudulent transfers.
He has particular experience in bankruptcy cases involving fraud, fraudulent transfers, misappropriations and exemption planning.
Awards
AV Preeminent® rated
Martindale-Hubbell
Lawyer of the Year, Litigation - Bankruptcy
Best Lawyers in America
2020
Super Lawyer
Florida Super Lawyers
Top Lawyer
Fort Lauderdale Illustrated
Education
University of Notre Dame
J.D.
1979
University of Notre Dame
B.A.
1976