Scott Thomas is a trial lawyer with a broad commercial litigation practice focusing on complex business litigation, securities litigation, and shareholder disputes. He has obtained favorable results for clients such as Mark Cuban, Sabre Corporation, the Dallas Mavericks, 2929 Entertainment, and many others in litigation in federal and state courts in Texas, New York, and California. Scott has represented technology, financial service, and entertainment companies, as well as individuals, in areas such as securities, fiduciary duty, fraud, minority shareholder claims, trade secret, insurance disputes, and breach of contract.

For the past several years, Scott has represented billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban and several of his companies in high-stakes litigation. One of the most recent examples is representing Mr. Cuban in a civil insider trading suit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission. After a three-week trial in federal court in Dallas, Mr. Cuban was cleared of all claims and any wrongdoing.

Scott represents both plaintiffs and defendants and has obtained favorable results for his clients, including a verdict for one of three individual minority shareholders of over $178 million in 2009, which was recognized as one of the nation’s top verdicts according to the National Law Journal. Recently, he has obtained summary judgments in favor of his clients as plaintiffs in significant indemnification leading to settlements right before trial.

Scott has also represented privately and publicly held companies in securities and contractual disputes. These matters include cases brought by shareholders against officers and directors of a publicly held company for matters such as stock option backdating, insurance disputes, rogue employees and executives, and disputes over contracts related to intellectual property.