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Downtown West Palm
Beach Office
Esperanté Building
222 Lakeview Avenue
Suite 210
West Palm Beach,
FL 33401
Phone: (561) 659-3300
Fax: (561) 659-1911
Northern Palm Beach
County Office
Greenway
Professional Center
4455 Military Trail
Suite 202
Jupiter, FL 33458
Phone: (561) 659-3300
Fax: (561) 253-1270 |
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| Scott W. Atherton |
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 email  vcard  561-253-2209
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scott@schwarzberglaw.com |
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Scott Atherton concentrates his practice in the areas of complex commercial litigation, labor and employment law, and insurance coverage disputes. Scott’s employment law experience includes defending discrimination, retaliation, and harassment claims, supervising internal investigations, and creating personnel policies that seek to minimize his clients’ employment-litigation exposure. Scott also prosecutes and defends a wide range of contract and business tort actions, including those arising from non-compete agreements.
Before joining Schwarzberg Spector Duke & Rogers, Scott served the Honorable Judge Robert M. Gross as a judicial clerk at the Fourth District Court of Appeal and worked as an academic clerk for Steel Hector & Davis LLP. |
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Areas of Experience |
- Contract and commercial litigation
- Wage & hour regulation
- Employment law litigation and counseling
- Employment contract and non-compete litigation
- Severance and parachute agreement disputes
- Trade secret protection
- Corporate, partnership, and franchise disputes
- Shareholders' derivative litigation
- Executive compensation disputes
- Deceptive trade practice & unfair competiton claims
- Insurance coverage actions
- Appellate practice
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Education |
- J.D., summa cum laude, Nova Southeastern University
- B.S., Florida Atlantic University
- Dual Major: Management and Marketing
- Minor: Advertising
- Dean’s List
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Professional Involvement |
- Member, Florida Bar
- Business Law
- Labor & Employment Law
- Appellate Practice & Advocacy
- Member, American Bar Association
- Litigation
- Labor & Employment Law
- President, Nova Southeastern University Law Alumni Association, Palm Beach County Chapter
- Board Member, Richard David Kann Melanoma Foundation
- Member, Florida Atlantic University Alumni Association
- Member, Palm Beach County Bar Association
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Teaching Experience |
- Adjunct Professor, Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center: M.S. Employment Law Program
- Educational Consultant, Nova Southeastern University: Bar Preparation Initiative
- Contract Law Teaching Assistant, Nova Southeastern University: Academic Resources Program
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Speeches & Lectures |
- Keynote Speaker, Summer 2004 Florida Bar Induction Ceremony
- Nova Southeastern University M.S. in Employment Law Residential Institute Presentation: Fair Labor Standards Act, Pitfalls to Avoid and Tips to Follow
- Continuing Professional Education Seminar: Non-compete Agreements and Trade Secret Misappropriation
- Continuing Professional Education Seminar: Employers' Electronic Discovery and Document Retention Obligations
- Schwarzberg Spector Duke & Rogers Employment Law Breakfast Series, 2006 & 2007
- Schwarzberg Spector Duke & Rogers Employment Law for Law Firms, 2006 & 2007
- Schwarzberg Spector Duke & Rogers Employment Law Seminar: FLSA And Overtime: Once Exempt, Always Exempt?
- Schwarzberg Spector Duke & Rogers Employment Law for Non-Profits, 2007
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Admitted to Practice |
- Florida
- U.S District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- U.S District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
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