Hear Scott outline his plans for 2010 in this podcast.
Born in Hawaii and raised in Denver, Colorado, Chancellor Scott F. Cooper has spent the past 20 years making his mark in Philadelphia.
At age 44, he is one of the youngest Chancellors in the history of the Philadelphia Bar Association. But he is accustomed to the fast track. He made partner at Blank Rome LLP in just over five years at age 33. He has earned an AV designation from Martindale-Hubbell, and he is recognized as among the best in the 2009 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
The Legal Intelligencer recognized him as a “Lawyer on the Fast Track” and the Philadelphia Business Journal named him one of the city’s “Top 40 under 40” in 2004.
Scott spent a year clerking for the Hon. Herbert J. Hutton of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania before joining Blank Rome LLP.
Now a partner in the firm’s Labor, Employment and Benefits Practice Group, Scott has a national employment practice in all areas of employment relations, appearing in courts across the country. He also has served as the firm's Philadelphia-based hiring partner and as Co-Chair of its Recruiting and Retention Committee.
As a law student at Temple University Beasley School of Law, he was a triple threat: managing editor of the law review, a member of the National Trial Team and on the Moot Court Honor Society. He also was a judicial intern for the Hon. Dolores K. Sloviter, Hon. Clarence Newcomer and Hon. Marvin Halbert.
Scott also has a distinguished history of community service. He is serving his second term on Temple University Alumni Association’s Board of Directors. Scott is also on the board of the Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program (VIP), serves as a certified court arbitrator and is an elected member of the Moorestown Republican Municipal Committee in Burlington County, New Jersey. He also serves on his township’s Ethics Board.
Scott has been an active member of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s leadership since 1995. He won election in 2007 as Vice Chancellor, running unopposed on a platform to strengthen the Bar’s relevance and promote regional economic growth. He has been elected as an at-large member of the Association’s Board of Governors, twice co-chaired the Labor and Employment Committee and has served on numerous special task forces at the appointment of prior Chancellors.
Scott has been elected to the Cabinet four times, holding every position of fiduciary responsibility including Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, member of the Budget and Audit Committees and Chair of the Audit Committee, as well as Treasurer and Financial Secretary of the Young Lawyers Division (YLD).
He is currently a member of the American Bar Association as well as the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bar Associations. He served on the Board of Governors of the Pyramid Club and was a member of the 2004 Leadership, Inc. CORE Class.
After receiving his B.A. degree from Vassar College with a dual major in economics and political science, Scott spent time working on Capitol Hill. He graduated cum laude from Temple University Beasley School of Law.
He and his wife Karen, a fellow attorney, live in Moorestown, N.J., with their daughter Amanda, age 9, and son Colin, age 6. They are avid sports fans; Scott even captains an adult soccer team.
