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Scott Zweigel

scott zweigel

Partner

Atlanta

szweigel@phrd.com

t: (404) 420-4338

f: (404) 522-8409

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Complementing his litigation practice, Scott is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US)

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Overview

Scott Zweigel is a results-oriented litigator. Concentrating on complex commercial disputes, Scott has helped clients successfully resolve numerous large and seemly intractable problems. His pragmatic, comprehensive approach serves as a catalyst to finding solutions and helping his clients achieve their objectives.

As a member of the firm’s Litigation group, Scott represents businesses, financial institutions, healthcare providers, and other companies facing claims in federal courts, state courts, and arbitration, including FINRA arbitration. He has handled a wide range of disputes, including securities litigation and securities arbitration, business tort and breach of contract litigation, class action defense, data breach disputes, electronic discovery issues, restrictive covenant disputes, and complex contract litigation.

Scott enjoys working with his clients to find successful resolutions to their matters, whether via judgment or negotiated agreement. With his experience in complex litigation, Scott knows that the path to the optimal outcome is never a straight or obvious one, and he is always focused on his clients’ strategic objectives. At the same time, his diligent and disciplined approach allows him to navigate through the tactical processes necessary to reach those objectives.

Experience

  • Served as lead counsel representing a healthcare client in a putative class action following one of the largest reported healthcare-related cybersecurity events in Georgia.
  • After two weeks of evidentiary hearings before a FINRA securities arbitration panel in New York City in March and May of 2018, the firm secured a complete victory for the broker-dealer client, which had been accused of various wrongdoing concerning a customer's account. The customer had claimed over $14,000,000 in damages and recovered nothing. The panel found that the claims were "false" and recommended that the supervisor's industry records be expunged of any reference to the customer's claims. The case was complicated because it involved over six years of trading and because of the absence of any testimony from the broker, who, tragically, passed away just a few weeks before the hearings began.
  • Won a major victory on behalf of a securities broker-dealer in a customer case that was decided by a three-arbitrator FINRA panel. The case involved allegedly improper withdrawals from a trust account, which was depleted by the trustee for his own use. The customers sought $19 million in damages. After a week-long evidentiary hearing, the Panel rejected all of the customers’ claims, awarded our client $500,000 in attorney fees, and ruled that the individual brokers’ regulatory records should be “expunged” of all references to the “false” claims.
  • Served as lead counsel for our broker/dealer client in a series of cases arising out of a third party's alleged Ponzi scheme. The broker/dealer client successfully defeated claims filed in Federal District Court in New York and California and in three FINRA arbitrations and recovered attorneys' fees in two of the arbitrations.
  • Obtained a complete dismissal of a putative class action filed against a major national bank client related to alleged misrepresentations regarding Vendor's Single Interest ("VSI") insurance for automobile loans.
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  • Favorably settled a hotly contested action involving complex securities derivative products for a national bank.
  • Counseled clients following cybersecurity events.
  • Reviewed client policies and manuals to address privacy and data security concerns.
  • Defended national subprime lender in series of class actions and Attorney General enforcement action addressing novel loan issue requiring litigation and arguments in Federal District Court, Federal Circuit Court, Georgia Superior Court and Georgia Supreme Court. Matters resolved by comprehensive settlement.
  • The firm represented a law firm in a government investigation and related civil proceedings involving allegations that deceased managing partner stole millions of dollars of client trust funds over many years.
  • Multiple representations as local counsel for national firms without a Georgia presence in state and federal court litigation.

Thought Leadership

  • Contributor: "That's Legal: A Man Took Out—and Then Sold—a Life Insurance Policy on Himself," Daily Report (October 27, 2022)
  • "Streaming Giants Beat Franchise Fee Fight," In GeorgiaLaw360 (March 2, 2022)
  • "People's United Seeks To Toss Ga. Payment Biz Referral Suit," Law360 (December 2021)
  • Presenter: "Hot Topics in Data Privacy and Cybersecurity," State Bar of Georgia Franchise & Distribution Law Section CLE (March 2021)
  • Client Alert: Cybersecurity Advisory Regarding Ransomware Activity Targeting the Healthcare and Public Health Sector (October 2020)
  • Client Alert: Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Reinforces the Limited Nature of a Federal Court’s Review of Arbitration Decisions (September 2020)
  • Testimony before the South Carolina House of Representatives regarding Hate Crimes Legislation (August 2020)
  • Presenter, "Hot Topics in Data Privacy and Cybersecurity," Advanced Topics in Franchising and Distribution Seminar, State Bar of Georgia ICLE Series (2020) 
  • Presenter, "Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Landscape: What You Should Know," 38th Annual Georgia Business Law Institute (October 2019)
  • Client Alert: No General Duty to Safeguard Information in Georgia (May 2019)
  • Client Alert: Equifax Motion to Dismiss Rulings Highlight Data Breach Risks (January 2019)
  • Co-Presenter, “Phased Discovery as a Means to Proportionality,” Thomas Reuters webinar (January 2019) Link to recorded webinar
  • Presenter, “Overview of Data Breach Litigation Issues,” Meritas® U.S./Canada Litigation and Labor & Employment Meeting (October 2018)
  • Co-Presenter, “Springing the Well-Laid Trap; Impeachment Under Georgia’s New Evidence Code,” ICLE: State Bar Series seminar, “Georgia Foundations and Objections Update” (presented with Partner, William Holley) (February 2015)

Areas of focus

  • Financial Services
  • Professional Services
  • Technology
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Appellate Litigation
  • Business Torts & Unfair Competition
  • Commercial Disputes
  • Consumer Class & Mass Action Defense
  • Corporate Governance & Ownership Disputes
  • Corporate Investigations
  • Fiduciary Litigation
  • Financial Services Litigation
  • Insurance Coverage Litigation
  • Intellectual Property & Restrictive Covenants
  • Privacy & Data Security
  • Professional Liability
  • Real Estate Litigation
  • Securities
  • Securities Litigation & Arbitration
  • White Collar Criminal Defense

Education

  • University of Georgia School of Law (J.D., 2005) cum laude; Georgia Law Review
  • University of Georgia (B.A., Political Science, 2002)

Accolades

  • American Cancer Society “Real Men Wear Pink” Honoree (2020)
  • Selected for Georgia Trend's 2019 40 Under 40
  • Selected for the University of Georgia's 40 Under 40 Class of 2019
  • Recognized as a "2019 Top Ranked Lawyer" by ALM Media
  • Earned the ANSI-accredited Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) credential through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) (2018)
  • Selected as one of Georgia Trend's "Legal Elite" for Business Law (2019), General Practice/Trial Law (2018) and Business Law (2016)
  • Recognized as a Georgia Super Lawyer "Rising Star" by Super Lawyers magazine (top 2.5% of attorneys in Georgia 40 years old or younger or in practice 10 years or less) (2014-2019)
  • Recognized in Martindale-Hubbell's Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers; Rated AV Preeminent

Professional affiliations

  • CIPP/US certification - International Association of Privacy Professionals 
  • Board Member-at-Large, Board of Privacy and Cybersecurity subsection of the Atlanta Bar Association
  • Board Member, Privacy and Data Security Group, Meritas North America
  • Crohn's and Colitis Foundation - Board Member and President (Georgia Chapter)
  • Anti-Defamation League - Board Member and Civil Rights Committee Co-Chair (Southern Region)
  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, State Bar of Georgia
  • Member, Lawyers Club of Atlanta
  • Georgia Appleseed – Young Professionals Council Executive Committee

Admitted to practice

  • Georgia 
  • 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals
  • 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
  • 4th Circuit Court of Appeals
  • 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
  • 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
  • Northern District of Georgia
  • Middle District of Georgia
  • Georgia Court of Appeals
  • Georgia Supreme Court

news & insights

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Scott Zweigel to present "Hot Topics in Data Privacy and Cybersecurity" CLE


Mar 12, 2021

Scott Zweigel to be honored at the 24th Annual ADL Jurisprudence Awards


Feb 11, 2021

Cybersecurity Advisory Regarding Ransomware Activity Targeting the Healthcare and Public Health Sector


Oct 29, 2020
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Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Reinforces the Limited Nature of a Federal Court’s Review of Arbitration Decisions


Sep 18, 2020

Scott Zweigel testifies at the invitation of the ADL before South Carolina House of Representatives Subcommittee


Aug 27, 2020

Jared Miller, Ron Coleman and Scott Zweigel to speak at the Advanced Topics in Franchising and Distribution Seminar


Feb 10, 2020
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