Scott D. Pfeiffer is a partner with extensive experience in state and federal courts and has been admitted pro hac vice in 16 separate jurisdictions.  Mr. Pfeiffer has a national practice that focuses in the areas of environmental claims, product liability claims, toxic tort claims, personal injury claims in the transportation and construction industries, commercial litigation, and drug and medical device litigation.

He is a board member of The National Forum for Environmental & Toxic Tort Issues and has participated in speaking engagements on the topics of asbestos litigation, personal jurisdiction, coal workers’ pneumoconiosis litigation, and food flavoring litigation.  He is also a member of the Elite Defense Network – Berkley Life Sciences.

Admissions

• Supreme Court of Illinois
• United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois
• Trial Bar of the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois
• United States District Court, Northern District of Indiana
• United States District Court, Southern District of Illinois
• United States District Court, District of Colorado
• Pro Hac Vice: United States District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky
• Pro Hac Vice: Circuit Court of St. Louis, Missouri
• Pro Hac Vice: United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio
• Pro Hac Vice: Circuit Court of Baltimore County, Maryland
• Pro Hac Vice: New York State Supreme Court
• Pro Hac Vice: Commonwealth of Kentucky, Boone Circuit Court, Division III
• Pro Hac Vice: County of Los Angeles, California
• Pro Hac Vice: State Court of Gwinnett County, Georgia
• Pro Hac Vice: Superior Court of New Jersey
• Pro Hac Vice: Commonwealth of Kentucky, Kenton Circuit Court, Division III
• Pro Hac Vice: Circuit Court of Buchanan County, Missouri
• Pro Hac Vice: Superior Court of State of California, County of Orange
• Pro Hac Vice:  District Court, 285th Judicial District, Bexar County, Texas
• Pro Hac Vice:  Supreme Court of Ohio
• Pro Hac Vice: United States District Court, Northern District of Iowa
• Pro Hac Vice: United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Education

• The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL, J.D.
• Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL, B.A.

Publications and Presentations

• Claims & Litigation Management Alliance Speaking Engagement:
  • Panelist at the 2023 CLM Annual on the topic entitled, “Defending the Unthinkable Claim-Risk Transfer & Resolution Strategy,” March 30, 2023, Tampa, FL.
  • Annual Conference speaker on the topic entitled, “Hot Topics Involving the Right to Independent Counsel,” August 11-13, 2021, Atlanta, GA.
  • Annual Conference speaker on the topic entitled, “Sexual Abuse Litigation – Defending the Institution Not the Perpetrator,” March 19, 2020, Dallas, TX (postponed)
  • Annual Conference speaker on the topic entitled, “Increasing Recoveries through Simple Identification of Additional Sources of Monies for Claimants,” April 10, 2014, Boca Raton, FL
• Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis Speaking Engagements:
  • Resolute Management, Inc. Mid-Atlantic Division speaker, September 27, 2007, Philadelphia, PA
  • CNA Insurance Company Environmental & Mass Torts Claims speaker, August 29, 2007, Cransbury, NJ
  • Emerging and Environmental Claims Managers Association speaker, May 3, 2007, Captiva Island, FL
• Food Flavoring Speaking Engagements:
  • 2019 EECMA Annual Conference speaker on the topic of “The Evolution and Future of Food Flavoring Litigation,” May 3, 2019, Orlando, FL
  • Emerging and Environmental Claims Managers Association speaker on the topic entitled, “Diacetyl Litigation Update:  A Legal and Medical Perspective,” May 3, 2013, Captiva Island, FL
  • Emerging and Environmental Claims Managers Association speaker, May 12, 2011, Captiva Island, FL
  • Resolute Management, Inc. Mid-Atlantic Division, September 16, 2010, Philadelphia, PA
• HarrisMartin:
  • Presenter on the topic entitled, “Notable Decisions in Cook County, Illinois and Beyond,” September 12, 2017, St. Louis, MO
• The American Bar Association:
  • ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) 31st Annual Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Spring Conference co-chair with a focus on PFAS, April 20-23, 2023, Scottsdale, AZ
  • ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) 29^th Annual Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Conference moderator on the topic entitled, “The Evolution and Future of Food Flavoring Litigation,” April 9, 2022, Scottsdale, AZ
  • ABA 26th Annual Spring CLE Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Conference speaker on the topic entitled, “The Renewed Resurgence in Personal Jurisdiction Decisions,” April 6-8, 2017, Phoenix, AZ
• The Chicago Bar Association:
  • Mastering Section 2-615 Motions to Dismiss, Panelist, October 19, 2010, Chicago, IL
• Vaping Speaking Engagement:
  • “The Developing Crisis of Bodily Injury from Vaping,” Moderator, EECMA 35th Annual Conference, April 30, 2021, Virtual Conference

Representative Cases

• • Rohl v. Borg Warner Corporation, et al.
    2017 IL App (1st) 162398-U

Professional Associations

• • • American Bar Association
    • Claims & Litigation Management Alliance
    • ClaimsXchange
    • Elite Defense Network – Berkley Life Sciences
    • Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel
    • Forum for Environmental and Toxic Tort Issues (FETTI)
    • Trucking Industry Defense Association (TIDA)