Elizabeth A. Scully is a skilled trial attorney who maintains a broad-based litigation practice. Ms. Scully has successfully defended the firm’s clients in matters involving complex commercial and contract disputes, professional malpractice, employment litigation, premises liability and antitrust claims. She is a member of the firm’s Electronic Discovery Rapid Response Team and has extensive experience handling matters involving the management, discovery and production of large-scale electronic records. Ms. Scully is also an active member of the firm’s Employment Litigation and Class Action Defense practice teams.
Currently, Ms. Scully is leading trial teams in a variety of matters in the United States and abroad stemming from the firm’s appointment as counsel to the SIPA Trustee in the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, LLC. Her team’s efforts are concentrated on the investigation and recovery of assets from off-shore hedge funds. Recoveries will be added to the fund of customer property, which will be distributed pro rata to the customers of the Madoff Ponzi scheme with allowed claims.
Some of Ms. Scully’s representative matters include:
Ms. Scully began her litigation practice in Baker Hostetler’s Columbus, Ohio, office. While in Columbus, she also served as a mediator for the Franklin County Municipal Court in a variety of contract disputes. In June 1999, Ms. Scully transferred to Baker Hostetler’s Washington, D.C., office, where she is now a partner and serves as the office’s Pro Bono Legal Services Coordinator.
Ms. Scully is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and is a member of the American, Virginia, District of Columbia and Maryland Bar Associations. She has an extensive history of leadership in the District of Columbia Bar, having been elected and served as Treasurer of the District of Columbia Bar, member of the District of Columbia Bar Board of Governors’ Finance and Budget Committees and Board liaison for the Litigation Section Steering Committee. Ms. Scully also co-chairs the Judicial and Executive Endorsements Committee of the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia. Ms. Scully is a long-standing supporter of the arts and education and served for six years on the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts Associates Board of Directors.