Scott O. Reed concentrates his practice on insurance coverage issues with an emphasis on directors and officers liability, lawyers malpractice, general liability, fidelity, health care professional and environmental liability, and architects and engineers liability, as well as other miscellaneous professional, life, disability, and employment practices liability insurance. He has litigated and arbitrated in both state and federal court. Scott has briefed over forty appeals in state and federal courts in Illinois, Wisconsin, California, Pennsylvania and Maryland, many involving declaratory judgments over insurance issues.
Prior to joining DLH, Scott was a partner in the Chicago law firm of Reardon Golinkin & Reed, a boutique law firm specializing in directors and officers and professional liability and insurance coverage issues. Before that, he was special counsel with Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold and an officer with the Chicago firm of Pretzel & Stouffer, Chartered. He served as law clerk to the Honorable Thomas M. Welch of the Illinois Appellate Court and was a staff attorney for the the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, the administrative arm of the Illinois Supreme Court, with principal responsibility for organizing the state's continuing judicial education programs, serving as staff liaison to judicial study committees and drafting court rules and commentary.
Scott has briefed over forty appeals in state and federal courts in Illinois, Wisconsin, California, Pennsylvania and Maryland, many involving declaratory judgments over insurance issues.
Mr. Reed completed his undergraduate studies in history and mathematics at the University of North Wales and the University of Illinois, receiving a B.A. in 1976. He was an intern for Congressman Robert H. Michel, House Minority Whip, in 1976. Mr. Reed earned his J.D. in 1980 from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was a Dean's List student, a Harno Fellow, and a recipient of the McRoberts Memorial Law Scholarship.
BAR ADMISSIONS Illinois State United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Trial Bar) United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin United States Courts of Appeals for the Third and Seventh Circuits.
SELECTED ARTICLES "Liability Insurance Coverage for Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Claims," - Mealey's Emerging Insurance Disputes, December 14, 2004 "Not All Settlements of Claims Are Covered 'Losses' Under D&O or E&O Policies," Mealey's Emerging Insurance Disputes, May 20, 2003 "Disqualifying an Opposing Party-Arbitrator Before the Arbitration," Mealey's Litigation Reports - Reinsurance, January 11, 2001 "A Critical Examination of Plaintiffs' Damage Analysis: An Important Defensive Tactic After Daubert and Kumho," Andrews Corporate Officers and Directors Liability Reporter, January 10, 2000 "Disqualifying an Expert Witness," Trial, June 1997 "Liability Insurance Coverage for the Tort of Conversion," 62 Defense Counsel Journal, January, 1995 "The Impact of Derivative Securities Trading on Liability Insurers," [1995] 3 International Insurance Law Review "Discovery of Reserve and Reinsurance Information - An Update," Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel Quarterly, Spring, 1994 (update of article in same journal, Summer 1990) "Actions Against Foreign Reinsurers in US Courts," [1994] 2 International Insurance Law Review "Developing Theories of Liability Against Reinsurers and Discovery Issues Affecting Reinsurers," Journal of Reinsurance, Summer 1994 "The Liability of Attorneys for Environmental Exposures," For the Defense, April 1994 "Illinois Civil Voir Dire Outline," 78 Illinois Bar Journal 194, April 1990 "Discovery of Computerized Litigation Support Systems," 77 Illinois Bar Journal, February, 1989 (First Place Article, Illinois State Bar Association Lincoln Legal Writing Contest) "Salvage and Subrogation," chapter in Financial Institution Bonds (ABA, Tort and Insurance Practice Section), 1989 "Third Party Liability to the Surety," ABA Annual Meeting, Tort and Insurance Practice Section, August 9, 1988 "Market Share Liability," 75 Illinois Bar Journal, February 1987 (First Place Article, Lincoln Legal Writing Contest) "The Protected Class Under the Structural Work Act," 74 Illinois Bar Journal, December 1985.