Scott Lewis Shapiro

Scott Shapiro is helping clients implement more than a billion dollars in flood protection improvement projects in California's Central Valley. Scott is at the center of massive flood protection improvement projects, advising clients through regulatory, contractual, financing, and legislative challenges. Within the area of water resources, Scott has developed special expertise in evaluating and demonstrating the availability of water supply for new uses.

Scott also has extensive experience with litigation, with special focus on cases arising from levee failures. Scott has litigated levee failures resulting from underseepage, failed encroachments, and rodent burrows. He has briefed levee overtopping cases at the appellate level and is one of the few attorneys with experience litigating flood cases on behalf of plaintiffs as well as defendant government entities.