Scott L. Nelson is an attorney at the Public Citizen Litigation Group in Washington, DC, where he has a pro bono, public interest practice including consumer law, campaign finance regulation, class actions, arbitration, administrative law, First Amendment law, regulation of hazardous products and substances, access to government records, energy regulation, environmental law, and Supreme Court and appellate practice. Before joining Public Citizen in 2001, Mr. Nelson was a partner at Washington’s Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, a litigation boutique where his clients included law firms, insurance companies and individuals including a former President of the United States. Mr. Nelson is a 1984 graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was President of the Harvard Law Review, and he was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White from 1984 to 1986. Mr. Nelson’s diverse practice has involved him in arbitrations, administrative trial-type hearings, trials in federal court, and appeals in both federal and state court systems. He has argued four cases before the United States Supreme Court and written dozens of briefs to that court.
