Elizabeth Davenport Scott

Elizabeth Scott represents businesses in the manufacturing, banking, health care and petroleum transport industries on a broad range of issues, including products liability, contractual and unfair trade practices disputes, fiduciary duty claims and insurance coverage disputes. Ms. Scott’s experience with insurance coverage disputes includes commercial general liability coverage, directors and officers policies, construction coverage, errors and omissions policies, and “stop loss” coverage for health insurance coverage plans. Ms. Scott also has served as primary litigation support to the environmental law practice group in the firm’s Raleigh office.

Elizabeth Scott represents businesses in the manufacturing, banking, health care and petroleum transport industries on a broad range of issues, including products liability, contractual and unfair trade practices disputes, fiduciary duty claims and insurance coverage disputes. Ms. Scott’s experience with insurance coverage disputes includes commercial general liability coverage, directors and officers policies, construction coverage, errors and omissions policies, and “stop loss” coverage for health insurance coverage plans. Ms. Scott also has served as primary litigation support to the environmental law practice group in the firm’s Raleigh office.

Ms. Scott is certified by the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission to mediate civil suits and serves as a mediator in cases pending before the North Carolina state courts, the Industrial Commission and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Middle Districts of North Carolina. Clients benefit greatly from the negotiation skills Ms. Scott has developed through her years of service as both a client advocate and mediator. Ms. Scott is especially qualified to assist clients seeking cost efficient alternatives to the standard jury trial.

Ms. Scott was admitted to the North Carolina State Bar in 1986 and she is admitted to practice in all three U.S. District Courts for the State of North Carolina, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. She is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association, serving on the Minorities in the Profession Committee from 2006 through 2009, and co-chairs the Litigation Section Council Ethics Committee. In addition, she is a member of the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, the Defense Research Institute (Products Liability, Insurance Law and Trucking Law committees) and the North Carolina District Export Council. Ms. Scott is a member of board of directors of Shepherd's Table Soup Kitchen and a deacon at White Memorial Presbyterian Church.

Martindale Hubbell has rated Ms. Scott an AV attorney, its highest rating available. She has also been listed in The Best Lawyers in America. In 2008, Ms. Scott was named a "Woman Extraordinaire" by Business Leader Magazine and in 2009 she received the Triangle Business Journal's "Women in Business" Award.

Ms. Scott received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and clerked on both the North Carolina Court of Appeals and Supreme Court before joining Williams Mullen.