Scott Voelz

Partner

Scott Voelz is a partner in O’Melveny’s Los Angeles office and a member of the firm’s Class Actions, Mass Torts, and Aggregated Litigation Practice.  He is a member of The American Lawyer’s 2004 “Litigation Department of the Year” and has been recognized as a Southern California “Rising Star” by Los Angeles Magazine.

Scott has represented clients in a variety of areas, including class and mass actions involving product liability and property damage claims, environmental and toxic tort cases, contract and construction claims, and oil and gas lease disputes.  Scott has also represented major entertainment studios in a number of intellectual property matters.  Scott has handled and tried matters in both federal and state courts, as well as a variety of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) settings.

Illustrative Professional Experience

• Representing current and former welding electrode manufacturers in mass and individual product liability actions in state and federal courts alleging neurological injury from manganese exposure
• Representing a major pharmaceutical company in product liability actions involving a prescription drug in numerous federal and state courts
• Represented a major pharmaceutical company in product liability actions in several state and federal courts
• Represented a hotel chain in defense of California Business and Professions Code Section 17200 claims regarding its vacation packages
• Represented a contractor in contract disputes with a government agency over the management and administration of toll roads in Orange County, California
• Represented school district in several major construction contract disputes
• Represented royalty owners in oil and gas lease disputes with oil companies
• Represented a real estate investment trust in a lease dispute over the operation of a golf course in Santa Barbara, California
• Represented a defense contractor in federal and state court against class and mass toxic tort actions involving air and groundwater contamination in Burbank, California
• Represented a mining company in property damage class actions in federal and state court in South Carolina
• Represented a film studio in a Lanham Act and copyright infringement action arising from the marketing and production of a competing television series
• Represented an entertainment company in a dispute with licensor over proper accounting of licensing royalties
• Represented a major telecommunications company in defense of a securities action which sought to prevent a multibillion dollar debt offering

Professional Activities

Admitted to Practice, U.S. District Court, Central District of California; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Member, Environmental and Litigation Section, Los Angeles County Bar Association; Environmental and Litigation Section, California State Bar