Scott is the Managing Partner of Sease & Wadding whose trial and appellate practice focuses on helping people and businesses win inside and outside the courtroom. Scott’s cases include business disputes, constitutional litigation, intellectual property, professional liability, and personal injury.
Scott is results driven and has significant experience wrestling with complex and novel trial and appellate issues. He has an inside perspective of the appellate process, which has proven critical to developing successful legal strategies in state and federal trial and appellate courts.
Scott has successfully represented people and companies in cases of all sizes and degrees of complexity, including successfully trying several jury and bench trials to verdict, obtaining an outright dismissal for a homeless man against a predatory lender, developing successful legal strategies to exclude key expert witness testimony in a nine-figure intellectual property case, crafting and implementing winning trial strategies for damages in high-stakes and bet-the-company intellectual property and business tort cases.
Pro-Bono Activities
Chair, Litigation Section, Iowa State Bar Association, 07/2025 to Present
Iowa Supreme Court Appellate Rules Committee, 2020 to 2025
Iowa State Bar Association Litigation Legislative Committee, 2020 to 2023
Board Member, American Constitution Society, 2019 to 2022
Volunteer Attorney, Iowa Legal Aid, 2012 to 2014
Chair, Cedar Rapids NAACP Legal Redress Committee, 2013 to 2014
Board Member, American Red Cross—Eastern Iowa Area, 2013 to 2014
Clerkship Experience
The Honorable Brent R. Appel, Iowa Supreme Court, Clerkship Experience, 2010 to 2012
Contributions
Presentation, "The Right of Publicity: Protecting Identity in the Age of Media" (May 2025)
Presentation, "A Proposed Framework for Civil Liability Arising from Automated Vehicles", Blackstone Inns of Court (June 2022)
Presentation, "Legislating Automated Vehicle Liability", Lincoln Inns of Court (May 2021)
"Legislating Civil Liability of Automated Vehicles," The Iowa Lawyer (March 2021)
Presentation, "The Evolution of State Constitutional Law in Iowa", Blackstone Inns of Court (Feb. 2019)
"A Primer on Reasonable Royalty Damages", The Iowa Lawyer (May 2018)
"Protecting Trade Secrets? Beefy ‘Defend Trade Secrets Act’ to the Rescue", IpQ: Enhancing Your IP IQ (June 2016)
"Proportionality in Perspective: Old Whine in New Bottles?", IpQ: Enhancing Your IP IQ (Jan. 2016)
"Cultivating a Common Bond: The Right to Adequate Education in South Africa and the United States", OxfordHuman Rights Hub Blog (September 11, 2013)
Tonn-Ochoa "Analysis Recognizes Iowa Supreme Court’s Duty to Tailor the Iowa Constitution to the Unique Traditions and Values of Iowans", The Iowa Lawyer (June 2013)
"What the Iowa Supreme Court Amendments to the Rules of Appellate Procedure Mean", The Iowa Lawyer (April 2013)
Co-Author, "Mechanics’ Liens Go Viral: Lessons from Iowa to Utah", Division 7 of the ABA Forum on Construction (January 2013).
Co-Author, "Criminal Law Newsletter", Drake University Law School (2010).
Co-Editor, 4 Iowa Practice Series, "Criminal Law" (West 2010).
Representative Cases
Herbst v. Sioux County et al.
Schiebout v. Sioux County et al.
John Doe v. Jasper County
John Doe v. Archdiocese of Dubuque
Sprint v. Cox (D. Del.)
Sprint v. Comcast (D. Kan. 2018)
Bagbey v. DePhillips et al.
Smith et al. v. Godwin Realty et al.
Sprint v. Time Warner Cable (D. Kan.)
M.L. v. Immanuel Lutheran Church
Vergara v. California (Cal.)
StrikeForce Technologies Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation (D. Del.)
Oracle USA v. Rimini Street, Inc. (D. Nev.)
Ray and Related Claimants v. State of Iowa
Estate of Bisignano v. Exile Brewing Company, LLC
Shareholder Derivative Litigation – Multi-Entity Restaurant Group
