Scott M. Malzahn

Scott Malzahn’s practice focuses on business, tort and intellectual property disputes.  He has successfully represented clients at all stages of litigation ranging from pre-dispute resolution through trial and appeal. He has served as lead trial counsel and argued motions in both federal and state courts in California, as well as in other jurisdictions.  He teaches Constitutional Law at USC Gould School of Law and taught Civil Procedure at UCLA.  

Scott has extensive experience representing corporate and individual clients both as a plaintiff’s and defense lawyer.  Before joining Baker Marquart, he represented many of the country’s largest corporations at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Howrey Simon in Los Angeles.  He then joined a boutique plaintiff’s contingency firm where he managed dozens of litigation matters ranging from personal injury matters to complex consumer class actions.  He has continued to draw upon these experiences at Baker Marquart where he represents both plaintiffs and defendants in an aggressive, strategic and cost-conscious manner.  

Scott has handled many high-profile cases.  He was a member of the trial team in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, which won a historic federal court decision striking down California’s ban on same-sex marriage as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  He also won political asylum for a young Iraqi boy and his family after CNN covered the story of a terrorist attack on the boy in dozens of news articles and on television. 

Scott graduated from UC Hastings in the top 1% of his class, where he won an intercollegiate moot court competition and received a prestigious scholarship from law school faculty.  He graduated summa cum laude from The College of William and Mary with a Bachelor of Science degree.