 Contacts Ask SCOTT a legal question on JustAnswer.com The New York Times Co. and seasoned journalism professional leveraging exceptional experience in reporting, interviewing, analysis and editing with legal skills. Research, analysis and communications skills combine effectively with qualifications at law. Scott was sworn to the State Bar of California in June 2011, as Member No. 276281. He is also admitted to practice in U.S. District Court of California, Northern District; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for the Eleventh Circuit; and he is accredited by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Medicaid Planning Network. Scott succeeded on the 3-day California Bar on first sitting in February 2011. He also passed California’s First Year Law Student Exam and the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam on first sitting. Scott earned his Juris Doctor in January 2011 from Concord Law School, now part of Kaplan University, after an exceptional career in journalism culminating with 10 years as a Staff Editor at The New York Times News Service. He worked full time concurrently while successfully completing law school. His journalism experience in the U.S. and abroad included general-interest news publications as well as at business, professional and technology news publications. His editorial experience spans community news to The New York Times; local business to Wall Street to international foreign investment and trade; local health care systems to information technology; and the full range of government agencies at all levels: municipal, state and federal. He’s worked as a reporter, assignment editor, news editor, copy editor, page design editor, photo editor, managing editor, writing and editing coach, and research project manager. Exceptionally broad journalism experience interviewing, fact gathering, researching and analysis covering just about every topic at one time or another are skills that prove directly relevant to law. They provide unique experiential context and perspective when dealing with people, businesses, government agencies, and in distinguishing factual conditions to which the law is applied. His experience includes living and working in Atlanta, Austin, San Francisco, New York, London, Munich, Kyiv, Sofia, Guam, Panama and Nicaragua. Scott's language skills include conversational Spanish, traveler's Russian/Ukrainian, and once-upon-a-time, German. This Web site is provided for INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. No LAWYER-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP is formed by viewing this site. Nor is such a relationship established by a simple e-mail or phone inquiry as to Scott Akin’s availability and willingness to provide services. Services listed here DO NOT constitute legal advice NOR the practice of Law. Limited scope legal representation is available in come matters, including for: Immigration Petitioners Veterans Benefits Issues Residents of the State of California In order to establish a lawyer-client relationship, there must be EXPLICIT agreement between the parties. Be assured that even when there is no lawyer-client relationship, all communications in seeking such services do remain confidential in accord with the Rules of Professional Conduct. Content © Copyright 2017 R Scott Akin |
