Scott E. Hiller
Scott's national practice covers an expansive range of
commercial litigation, corporate matters, and sports related
issues. His commercial litigation practice spans a wide
variety of areas, including general contract, fraud, breach of
fiduciary duty, insurance coverage and bad faith.
Scott's corporate experience includes advising boards of
directors, assisting in post-merger transitions and performing many
internal corporate functions, such as attending board of directors
meetings regularly and drafting board meeting minutes, board
resolutions, and other corporate documents. Scott has assisted
corporate clients as well as individual employees deal with EEOC
and discrimination issues. He also has extensive experience in
drafting, researching and interpreting commercial contracts.
Additionally, Scott's sports law practice focuses on the legal
needs of players, coaches, teams and schools. He has a wide range
of knowledge and experience dealing with injuries on the athletic
field, sports product issues, amateur representation and matters
relating to NCAA rules, NCAA/high school association violations,
personal website/social networking issues, concussion treatment and
injuries, NCAA infraction and recruiting measures, drafting coach's
contracts, agent issues, and professional athlete arbitration
matters
Scott also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the
Northwestern University Graduate School of Sports Administration.
He currently teaches courses in Risk Management and Liability as
they relate to Athletic Departments. In 2011, Scott became Of
Counsel to RSG.
In conjunction with his legal practice, Scott has also served as
the president and general manager of the Washington Bayhawks of
Major League Lacrosse (MLL). He also served in the dual role of
head coach/GM. Prior to coaching the Bayhawks, Scott served as the
head coach of the Boston Cannons. He was a two-time selection as
the league's Coach of the Year, and he led the Cannons to
back-to-back American Division titles and four straight playoff
appearances. He guided Boston to a 10-2 record, tying Baltimore for
the best mark in league regular season history. During his
four-year tenure with the Cannons, Scott compiled a 32-18 regular
season record. In his inaugural campaign during the 2002 season, he
led the team to a 7-7 record and was named Coach of the Year. The
Cannons went 7-5 and secured their third consecutive postseason
berth. The following season, Boston won a then team-record eight
games and clinched the franchise's first American Division
title.
Before joining the Cannons, Scott spent eight seasons as
assistant head coach for the Harvard men's lacrosse team. Prior to
that, he had an outstanding playing career that included a U.S.
World Team appearance. Scott is third on the career points
list at UMass, where he was one of just two players to be named
All-America all four years. He was captain of the Minutemen as a
senior.