Scott L. Altes
Mr. Altes is a Director at Fennemore Craig, with 14 years of litigation and trial experience in complex commercial and tort litigation matters, including professional liability, medical negligence, and construction defect cases.His experience includes representing hospitals, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers in a wide range of high-exposure medical negligence and wrongful death matters, including the specialties of emergency medicine, surgery, cardiology, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, critical care, neurology, radiology, behavioral health, vulnerable adult claims, and credentialing and peer review.
Mr. Altes also has substantial experience representing builders and general contractors in residential construction defect litigation. He has defended numerous mass actions and class actions relating to a variety of defect allegations, including soils, concrete, framing, stucco, drywall, roofing, window and door systems, plumbing, electrical systems, and mold.
Mr. Altes also handles a wide variety of complex commercial litigation matters and has represented attorneys, accountants, financial institutions, investment advisors, and other professionals in professional liability litigation.
Mr. Altes specializes in written and oral advocacy, including complex motion practice and appellate briefing and argument. Mr. Altes also has substantial experience in injunctive matters, including cases involving temporary restraining orders and other provisional remedies. He also has substantial experience in alternative dispute resolution, as well as matters involving actual and ostensible agency claims, insurance coverage and indemnity issues, discovery processes, and issues relating to electronically recorded and stored information.
Mr. Altes has served as litigation counsel for the Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct in contested disciplinary proceedings. In addition, Mr. Altes heads Fennemore Craig’s Litigation Advocacy Training Program, an intensive six month course during which the firm’s new litigation associates take a fictional multi-party dispute through the entire litigation process, from the preparation of initial pleadings through witness interviews, discovery (including electronic discovery), depositions, and motion practice and oral argument, ultimately culminating in an actual jury trial, featuring volunteer jurors from the community and a sitting Arizona Superior Court judge presiding.
Professional and Community Activities
Member, State Bar of ArizonaMember, Maricopa County Bar Association
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Arizona Association of Defense Counsel
Admissions
Arizona, 1994U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 1994
Education and Honors
J.D., with honors, Duke University School of Law, 1993B.A., summa cum laude, University of Houston, 1990
Editor-in-Chief, Alaska Law Review, 1993
Law Clerk, Chief Justice Daniel A. Moore, Supreme Court of Alaska, 1993-1994
Highest Score, Arizona Bar Examination, February 1994.
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