Scott Ballenger

Full Bio

After graduating from the College in 1993 and the Law School in 1996, Scott served as a law clerk for Judge J. Clifford Wallace of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and for Justice Antonin Scalia, and as Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. He then joined Latham & Watkins LLP in Washington, D.C., where he spent 20 years as an associate and partner in the firm’s Supreme Court and Appellate practice.

Scott has argued three cases in the Supreme Court of the United States and dozens in the courts of appeals and trial courts across the country. He represented the Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs in the case, Abigail Alliance v. von Eschenbach, that inspired “right to try” legislation across the country and in Congress. He has worked on a wide variety of other significant constitutional matters, including for the University of Michigan Law School in Grutter v. Bollinger, the University of Texas in Fisher v. University of Texas, Hastings Law School in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, and the Humane Society of the United States in cases involving depictions of animal cruelty (United States v. Stevens), preemption (National Meat Association v. Harris) and the ability of states to prohibit the sale of the products of cruelty such as foie gras, shark fins and eggs from hens confined in battery cages.