Scott Noveck is an associate in Mayer Brown’s Supreme Court & Appellate practice. While at the firm, Scott has authored briefs in numerous cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal courts of appeals, and state appellate courts across the country. He previously served as a law clerk to Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Scott earned his J.D. with distinction from Stanford Law School, where he received the Hilmer Oehlmann Jr. Prize for excellence in legal writing and the Walter J. Cummings Award for Best Brief in the Kirkwood Moot Court Competition. He was an Articles Editor for the Stanford Law Review and served two terms in the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, where he drafted briefs in numerous cases at both the certiorari and merits stages. Scott received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, where he was awarded the Halbert White ’72 Prize for the most outstanding economics major in his class and the Senior Thesis Prize in Economics. Scott’s academic articles on Constitutional Law and the First Amendment have appeared in the Harvard Journal on Legislation, the Gonzaga Law Review, and the Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal.