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Scott J. Bloch is a trial lawyer who has specialized in complex litigation, class actions, employment and personal injury for nearly 30 years vindicating his clients in their quest for justice.  Recognized as a tenacious and skilled attorney, he has appeared in federal, state, administrative, and appellate courts across the country, including in the United States Supreme Court.  His areas of concentration are:. Complex consumer, class action, personal injury and professional malpractice matters. Defense Base Act actions against contractors and insurance carriers. Employment discrimination, federal rights, personnel law, whistleblower retaliation, public policy retaliation. Qui tam (false claims) suits against private corporations for defrauding the taxpayer. Government contracts disputes and executive compensation. He served two years in the United States Department of Justice as Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General on matters involving constitutional litigation, and for five years was the government’s chief enforcer of federal employment rights and whistleblower disclosures where he attained notoriety as the head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.  He garnered national news for his work in the grounding of 1000 airplanes due to unsafe cracks in fusilages, his pursuit of disciplinary actions against high administration officials in multiple departments and the White House, and championing the rights of nationally recognized whistleblowers in such places as the Department of Defense (faulty Katrina pumps and government contracting irregularities), the Border Patrol (fraudulent kickback scheme), and the Federal Aviation Administration (cover up of FAA air traffic system near misses, widespread cover up of airworthiness inspections).  He has testified on federal rights before the United States Congress and has appeared regularly in the media on programs such as NPR (Morning Edition and All Things Considered), CNN, C-Span, NBC Nightly News, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, US News & World Report, Newsweek, St. Louis Post Dispatch. He has written on the need to recognize whistleblowers and on the enforcement of other employment rights.. He and his team recently obtained settlement of a national consumer class action against General Motors (in re Dex Cool)  that was valued at $300 million and has tried cases successfully in the area of employment rights, financial fraud, contracts, and consumer protection.  He believes in aggressive pursuit of justice on behalf of those whose rights have been denied, economically, personally, and constitutionally.  “My whole career has been dedicated to bringing expeditious justice to those who have been denied justice.”. Justice delayed, is justice denied.