Stewart and DeChant

Scott E. Stewart heads the firm’s products liability section, specializes in insurance law bad faith claims, personal injury including vehicle and truck accidents, legal malpractice, maritime law, intentional tort, social security disability, drug recall litigation and other areas of personal injury practice.

Scott graduated from Bethany College with a Bachelor of Arts with senior high honors in 1973 and from the Case Western Reserve School of Law with his Juris Doctorate in 1976. He was admitted to the Ohio Bar the same year. He is admitted to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

After graduation from law school, Scott attended the Court Practice Institute in Chicago, Illinois as well as the initial and advanced programs at The National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He gained valuable insight and experience in the development of his trial skills at these national programs.

Scott was honored by gaining membership as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in May of 1993. He was recertified in 1998.

Scott is a member and past president of the Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys as well as a member of the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association where he is currently a district representative. As a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, Scott is the past chairman of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and was a former director on the Young Lawyers’ Section. Currently, he is a past chairman of the Common Pleas Committee of the Litigation Section.

He is a Diplomate in the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys and a member of the American Judicature Society, the National Organization of Social Security Claimant’s Representatives, the Ohio State Bar Foundation and one of fewer than a hundred and thirty associates of the American Board of Trial Advocates.

In addition to lecturing to other practicing lawyers in Ohio, Scott has published on the topics of intentional tort law and experts.

Scott has been a partner since 1983.

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