Scott E. Reiser is a Partner of Post Polak, where he litigates in the State and Federal Courts of New Jersey and New York. He has a broad and diverse litigation practice, with significant experience in litigation involving ownership of closely held businesses, trusts and estates, construction defects, commercial real estate disputes, Chancery litigation, and a wide array of substantive areas of law. In his everyday practice, he relies on ten years of business experience that he gained prior to starting his career as an attorney.
Experience
Scott is an active leader in the American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation, currently serving as a Division Director after finishing his term as Managing Director. Prior to that, Scott was an active member of the Section’s Council, which sets policies for the Section of Litigation. He has previously served as co-Chair of the Section of Litigation’s Content Management Committee, which manages the Section’s substantive committee publications–Articles and Practice Points. He also served a three-year term as co-Chair of the Section of Litigation’s Ethics & Professionalism Committee.
Scott is also an Officer of the Board of Trustees of the Essex County Bar Association, having previously served as a Trustee and as co-Chair of the ECBA’s Chancery Committee, a position he has held since 2016. He is also Vice-Chair of the General Equity Jurisprudence Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association.
A frequent CLE panelist, Scott has moderated or participated on diverse panels, including as meeting co-chair and panelist for the ABA Section of Litigation’s Regional CLE Meeting “Discovery Yourself: Navigating the First Years of Your Practice” held at Seton Hall Law School in 2019, as moderator for a panel entitled “The Lawyer, the Addict” at the ABA Section of Litigation’s Annual Conference, as a panelist on “How Far is Too Far: Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls in Business Negotiation” at the ABA Section of Litigation’s Regional CLE Workshop entitled “The Art of the Deal: A Negotiation Workshop, “Business Divorce: Who Gets Custody of the Shareholders” at the NJSBA Annual Conference, “Thou Vile Poisonous Bunch-Back’d Toad: Ethics of Insults Through the Centuries” at the ABA Annual Meeting, and other CLEs and panels.
Scott served as a Fee Arbitration Panelist for the District V-C Fee Arbitration Committee of Essex County, New Jersey for a four-year term.
Following law school, Scott served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Kenneth S. Levy, Presiding Judge for the Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, General Equity Part, Essex Vicinage.
While at the Seton Hall University School of Law, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Seton Hall Circuit Review, a law journal focusing on the ever-increasing field of divided legal issues in the Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals. He also participated in the Impact Litigation Clinic, where he represented a client in a matter before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and served on the Appellate Advocacy Moot Court Board.
Scott is also proud to have served as a member of the Seton Hall Law School Alumni Council since 2009. Following a term as co-chair of the Alumni Council’s Law School Relations Committee, he now serves as co-chair of the Special Events Committee.
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