Scott C. Hall

Scott Hall’s practice focuses on complex civil litigation, including consumer class actions, trademark and copyright infringement actions, and other commercial litigation at the trial and appellate levels. His clients include companies in the financial, food and beverage, electronics, technology, and telecommunications industries.

Scott also advises clients on data privacy and cybersecurity issues, including in response to data breaches, and has been certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) as a Certified Information Privacy Professional for U.S. laws and regulations (CIPP/US). He has also conducted numerous internal investigations on behalf of audit and special committees in connection with inquiries and proceedings by law enforcement and regulatory agencies.

Prior to joining Coblentz, Scott was a litigation associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP in Silicon Valley. Scott served as a law clerk to the Honorable William W Schwarzer of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, sitting by designation on the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Third, Sixth and Ninth Circuits.

Scott is a member of the State Bar of California, the Bar Association of San Francisco and the Santa Clara County Bar Association. He is admitted to practice in all federal districts in California, as well as before the Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.

Scott earned his law degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2004, where he served as an Executive Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. He received his B.A. in Political Science, cum laude, from Brigham Young University in 2000.