Scott Edward Cole

Scott Edward Cole was born in San Pablo California in 1965 and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area ever since. He graduated from San Francisco State University in 1989 with a B. A. in Speech Communications and from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1992. Later that year, Scott launched his solo legal practice and, in the early years of his career, devoted himself to representing victims of toxic chemical releases such as the one showcased in his book Fallout. Over the next several years, Scott led several other complex environmental cases but, in 2000, shifted the emphasis of his growing firm to workers-side class actions. Since then, he has handled hundreds of consumer and employment class action matters, has authored numerous articles and spoken widely to audiences regarding many of the lessons learned from these experiences.