Scott W. Pedigo, shareholder in the Jackson office, concentrates his practice in employment, consumer products liability and commercial litigation. He also has handled a wide variety of other litigation in the health care and tort settings in both state and federal courts through trial and appellate resolution. Mr. Pedigo regularly assists clients with employment and product safety issues. He has extensive experience defending complaints of discrimination and Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions and has coordinated recalls under the Consumer Product Safety Act.
While completing his education, Mr. Pedigo served as an intern for U.S. Magistrate S. Allan Alexander in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.
- Speaker – "Substance Abuse from the Employer/Partner Perspective," National CLE Conference, Law Education Institute, Vail, Colorado (January 2011)
- Speaker – "Substance Abuse in the Workplace," Meridian Society for Human Resource Management, Meridian, Mississippi (November 2010)
- Speaker – "Substance Abuse from the Employer/Partner Perspective," National CLE Conference, Law Education Institute, Vail, Colorado (January 2010)
- Speaker – "2009: A Busy Year for the HR Professional – Legal Update," Meridian Society for Human Resource Management, Meridian, Mississippi (November 2009)
- Speaker – "The Unique Challenges Presented by the 80/80 Work Week and Mandatory Overtime," Baker Donelson Health Professionals Employment Law Seminar, Jackson, Mississippi (April 2009)
- Speaker – "Voir Dire: First Impressions Matter – Keeping Voir Dire Exciting and Productive," National CLE Conference, Law Education Institute, Vail, Colorado (January 2009)
- Speaker – "Immigration Raids – Managing the Worse Case Scenario," Meridian Society for Human Resource Management, Meridian, Mississippi (November 2008)
- Speaker – "Immigration Raids – Managing the Worse Case Scenario," Delta Human Resource Management Association, Indianola, Mississippi (October 2008)
- Speaker – "Employment Law A-Z," South Mississippi Society for Human Resource Management, Hattiesburg, Mississippi (August 2008)
- Speaker – "Fair Labor Standards Act," Harrison-Hancock Society for Human Resource Management, Waveland, Mississippi (June 2008)
- Speaker – "Fair Labor Standards Act," Meridian Society for Human Resource Management, Meridian, Mississippi (May 2008)
- Faculty Member – Lorman Educational Services Seminar, "Employment Law from A to Z," Tupelo, Mississippi (March 29, 2007)
- Co-author – "Avoiding a Jury: The Enforceability of Arbitration Clauses in Mississippi," Mississippi Medical News (March 2007)
- Speaker – "Avoiding Litigation by Maintaining Realistic Expectations and Family Communications," Mississippi Health Care Association's annual Nursing Home Summit (February 2007)
- Columnist – "Unlike Trusts, Mississippi Nonprofit Corporations: 'Autonomous Unto Themselves,'" Mississippi Bar Association Business Law Section Newsletter (Spring 2006 pp. 3-9)
- Columnist – "Trust Law vs. Nonprofit Corporate Law: Mississippi Supreme Court Holds That Nonprofit Corporate Law Governs Nonprofit Hospital's Sale of Assets to For-Profit Corporation," American Health Lawyers Association Tax & Finance Newsletter (Spring 2006 pp. 4-6)
- Contributing author – Chapter 36: Health Law, Jeffrey Jackson & Mary Miller, Encyclopedia of Mississippi Law (West 2001)
- AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Named a Mid-South Rising Star, Mid-South Super Lawyers (2009 – 2011)
- Member – 2008 – 2009 Leadership Greater Jackson Class
- Member – Defense Research Institute (Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Committee)
- Member – Mississippi Health Care Association
- Member – Mississippi (Health Law Section; Young Lawyers Division; Diversity in Law Committee (2004 – 2008); Seminars Committee 1999 – 2003 and Co-Chair 2001 – 2002; Judiciary Committee 1998), Alabama, Capital Area, Federal and American Bar Associations
- Member – Jackson Young Lawyers
- Member – Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association
- Member – American Health Lawyers Association
- Mississippi, 1997
- Alabama, 1998
- Fifth Circuit, 1997
- U. S. Supreme Court, 2005
- U. S. District Courts of Alabama, 2011
- University of Mississippi School of Law, J.D., 1997, summa cum laude
- University of Mississippi, B.B.A., 1994, summa cum laude