Practice Areas: Civil Litigation, Business Litigation, Employment Litigation; view more
Licensed in Georgia since: 2007
Education: Atlanta's John Marshall Law School
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2024 - 2025 
Selected to Rising Stars: 2016 - 2017 Townsend & Lockett LLC
1100 Peachtree StreetSuite 950
Atlanta, GA 30309 Phone: 888-915-0998 Email: Janet C. Scott Visit website
Details
Janet C. Scott focuses her practice on civil litigation. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, she represents clients throughout the greater metropolitan area and other parts of the state. Admitted to practice in Georgia since 2007, Ms. Scott is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia.
Ms. Scott's client base is composed of people and companies who have been harmed as a result of the actions of other parties. The cases that she has handled have arisen out of incidents ranging from a breach of contract to employment disputes. During her career as an attorney, Ms. Scott has been able to obtain significant results for her clients through both jury awards and settlements that she has negotiated out of court. Her fellow attorneys have taken note of her successful track record and have awarded her a "Superb" peer review rating through Avvo.
Born and raised in Atlanta, Ms. Scott attended Spelman College as an undergraduate, where she majored in history and received a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in 1995. After obtaining a Master of Arts in education from Mercer University in 1998, she taught middle school students in DeKalb County before she subsequently decided to pursue a legal education at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School. After being awarded her Juris Doctor in 2006, Ms. Scott gained significant litigation experience at area law firms before joining Townsend & Lockett. She is a past president of the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys and is active in other professional groups as well.
1100 Peachtree Street
Suite 950
Atlanta, GA 30309
Practice areas
Civil Litigation: Plaintiff, Business Litigation, Employment Litigation: Plaintiff, Employment Litigation: Defense, Entertainment & Sports, General Litigation, Intellectual Property LitigationFirst Admitted: 2007, Georgia
Professional Webpage: https://townsendlockett.com/team/janet-c-scott/
- Lawyers Club of Atlanta, since 2017, 2024
- Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys Foundation, Board Member, 2024
- Director of Legal Affairs, National Black MBA Association-Atlanta Chapter, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- GABWA Foundation, President, 2021
- GABWA Foundation, President, 2020
- Northern and Middle federal district courts in Georgia
- Georgia Supreme Court
- Georgia Court of Appeals
- Georgia
- American Bar Association Awards, Georgia Young Lawyers’ Division (“YLD”), Director
- Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys, President, 2016
- $500k Settlement - Our client was driving his motorcycle when a police officer recklessly (and needlessly) joined a high-speed chase. During the chase, in which the officer was driving in excess of 70 mph through a city street (without sirens), the officer improperly changed lanes while he was behind our client, and while our client was making a left-hand turn. Our client suffered burns to half his body and he broke several bones. Under ordinary circumstances, our client would be entitled to significantly more but his settlement was capped because of governmental immunity. The officer was criminally charged with reckless driving. , 2020
- Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys Foundation, Board Member, 2024
- Atlanta Hawks She Leads Mentoring Program, 2024
- Women's Collective, 2024
- Board Member-NBMBAA-Atlanta Chapter, 2024
- United States Selective Service Board, DeKalb County, Georgia, since 2008, 2023
- Georgia High School Mock Trial Competition, Evaluator, 2022
- ABA Bench & Bar Academy Committee Member and Panel leader, Atlanta, Georgia, 2022
- Board Member, NBMBAA-Atlanta Chapter, 2022
- Board member, NBMBAA-Atlanta Chapter, 2021
- President, GABWA Foundation, 2021
- Georgia High School Mock Trial Competition, Evaluator, 2021
- Georgia High School Mock Trial Competition, Evaluator, 2019
- GABWA Foundation Board, Vice President and Director, 2019
- Georgia High School Mock Trial Competition, Evaluator, 2018
- St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Atlanta Gala Chair, 2014
- Aspiring Youth Program Committee, Co-Chair, 2009
- 100 Top Black Women of Influence, Atlanta Business League, 2016
- Who's Who is Law and Accounting, Atlanta Business Chronicle, 2016
- "Top 25 Women of Atlanta," 2015, Rolling Out Magazine, 2015
- Turnkett Leadership Character Award, Turnkett Leadership Group, 2014
- Leadership DeKalb, Class of 2010, Leadership DeKalb, 2010
- Scholarship Recipient and an Outstanding Law Student, Georgia Association of Women Lawyers
- Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
- Spelman College, B.A. cum laude, 1995
- Mercer University, M.Ed, 1998
- CLE Panel presentation , Contributing Attorney, Social Media: Friend or Foe Panel Presentation, Legal, 2022
- Spirit of GABWA Award, 2021
- Spirit of GABWA Award, 2018
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Office location for Janet C. Scott
1100 Peachtree Street
Suite 950
Atlanta, GA 30309
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2024 - 2025
- Rising Stars: 2016 - 2017