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Firm: Pine Tillett Pine LLP
14156 Magnolia Boulevard , Sherman Oaks , California 91423
Practice Areas: Appellate , Appeals
Appellate specialist with significant background both in plaintiffs' substantive law (employment rights law, personal injury, product liability, etc.) and in complex business litigation. Formerly with Manatt, Phelps & Rothenberg; antitrust boutique Blecher & Collins; and appellate firm Horvitz & Levy. Our firm handles the full range of appellate-related law practice including consulting at the trial court level on issues likely to have significant appellate consequences and handling appeals throughout the state, in both state and federal courts. I have practiced exclusively as an appellate lawyer since 1990 and am a Certified Appellate Law Specialist (California Board of Legal Specialization).
Firm: Pine Tillett Pine LLP
14156 Magnolia Blvd Ste 200 , Sherman Oaks , California 91423
Practice Areas: Appeals
Scott Tillett co-founded Pine Tillett Pine LLP in 2016. Mr. Tillett was named to the Super Lawyers 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 Southern California Rising Stars list, a selection shared by no more than 2.5 percent of lawyers in the state. Previously, Mr. Tillett was an associate attorney with Pine & Pine from 2014 through 2015, handling civil appellate matters. Prior to joining Pine & Pine, Mr. Tillett focused his practice on class actions, including wage and hour, product liability, and consumer fraud litigation, in addition to handling individual employment, personal injury, and product liability actions at both the federal and state level.. Mr. Tillett received his Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law in 2010. During law school, Mr. Tillett externed for the Honorable Judith C. Chirlin of the Los Angeles Superior Court and the Honorable Florence Marie Cooper of the United States District Court. Mr. Tillett was also a member of the USC Law, Review of Law and Social Justice, where he authored a note on the safety of pediatric off-label antidepressant prescription practices, which was published in 2010.. Mr. Tillett has exclusively practiced appellate law since 2014 and has handled numerous civil appeals, dealing with complex legal issues involving employment, business litigation, defamation, clergy-penitent privilege, child molestation, excessive force, wrongful death, class actions, trusts and estates, arbitration, government immunity, and land use. Along with his partner, Norman Pine, Mr. Tillett serves as an Associate Editor of Advocate, supervising the annual “Employment Law” issue. Mr. Tillett serves on the California Employment Lawyers Association's (CELA) Education Committee and he is a member of the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC), the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA), the American Association for Justice (AAJ), and the Appellate Courts Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA).. Mr. Tillett received his Bachelor of Science in Psychobiology from Chapman University, where he was the lab manager for Dr. William Wright, presented at the Neuroscience Convention in Atlanta, Georgia in 2006, and was published in the Journal for Neuroscience in 2010.. Mr. Tillett has authored articles for the Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles publication, ADVOCATE, on the Private Attorney's General Act (May 2019), whistleblower protections (May 2018), the disentitlement doctrine (December 2017), and arbitration enforcement (June 2015). Mr. Tillett is qualified to practice in California.
