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Jessica Goneau Scott

Partner, Diversity & Inclusion Co-Chair

P. 303.244.1846

Biography

Jessica Scott defends major companies facing serious class action threats nationwide. These include high-risk consumer class actions, misclassification cases (both independent contractor and joint employment), wage and hour cases, and FLSA collective actions. She serves as lead counsel and national coordinating strategist to a Fortune 500 company in its misclassification and wage and hour cases. Jessica also has significant appellate experience, including in the distinct area of punitive damages.

In addition to her class actions practice, Jessica has successfully handled a steady stream of critical appeals for her clients. She has served as appellate counsel in the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Montana Supreme Court, the Colorado Court of Appeals, and the Arizona Court of Appeals. She has won decisions for her clients in each of these. 

Jessica has also argued and prevailed on numerous dispositive motions in state and federal court, saving her clients time and money by circumventing the need to go to trial. Additionally, Jessica has taken the lead on several large-scale mediations, all of which ended favorably for her clients.

Jessica has significant experience developing and implementing strategic plans for discovery in large-scale cases, including managing the collection, review, and production of electronic discovery for large companies. When faced with a new case or new challenge presented by a client, Jessica first discusses with the client its goals for the litigation and then works hand-in-hand with the client to develop the best strategy for implementing those goals and doing so with as little burden on the client as possible.

Jessica's notable results include a unanimous affirmance by the Montana Supreme Court for Ford Motor Co.; reducing punitive damages in an appeal in Arizona state court from an 8:1 ratio to 1:1; and, as second chair in a two-and-a-half week jury trial in a high-exposure insurance bad faith case, winning a full defense verdict for WTO's client in less than two hours of jury deliberations.

Cases

Legal Memberships, Activities, and Honors

The Best Lawyers In America
    Litigation - Labor and Employment, 2024, 2025
Benchmark Litigation
    National Labor & Employment Star - Wage & Hour/FLSA Class Actions, 2021-2025
    Future Star - Colorado, 2015-2018, 2021-2022, 2024-2025
Colorado Super Lawyers
    Class Action, 2022-2024
Law Week Colorado
    Top Women Lawyers, 2021
    Up-and-Coming Lawyers, Finalist, 2010
Colorado Rising Stars
    Class Action/Mass Torts, 2010-2020
Defense Research Institute
    Appellate Advocacy Committee
        Tenth Circuit Reporter
International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
American Bar Association
Colorado Bar Association
Denver Bar Association
University of California Boalt Hall School of Law
    Jurisprudence Award in Property, Criminal Procedure, & Evidence
    Prosser Award in Contracts, Legislation, Legal Professions, & Appellate Advocacy
    Moot Court Advocacy Award

Teaching Positions

National Institute for Trial Advocacy
    Rocky Mountain Trial Skills Seminar
       Instructor, 2011
    Advanced Advocates Training Program for the National Organization
            of Bar Counsel
       Instructor, 2011

Personal Interests

Science fiction, musical theater, spending time with family and rescue animals 

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