Attorney Bios

STUART SCOTT clerked for the Honorable Samuel L. Lewis on the Tennessee Court of Appeals for one year after he graduated law school in 1988.  After his clerkship, he began as an associate with Stewart, Estes & Donnell, PLC where he has worked ever since.  Stuart focuses on litigation and practices in the courts throughout the State of Tennessee

Stuart serves a wide mixture of clients.  He represents a number of tractor trailer companies in a variety of claims, including claims involving transportation law, workers' compensation and general civil defense.  Stuart has successfully obtained defense verdicts in both state and federal court for his clients.   

Stuart's practice includes defending employers and insurers in workers' compensation matters across Tennessee.  He has been a featured speaker in seminars for other attorneys and in seminars for clients throughout the country. 

Stuart has been closely involved with the Benefit Review Conference process since its inception over a decade ago.  He has also been involved in thousands of lawsuit resolutions throughout his legal carrier. 

Stuart has several electrical utilities he defends.  He also represents a wide variety of churches throughout the State. 

Stuart, as lead counsel, along with his team of attorneys and paralegals, has secured desirable rulings, judgments and settlements for the firm's clients in a number of cases.  These include trial and jury verdicts.  One federal jury defense verdict involved a plaintiff who alleged severe back injuries and neurological deficits which rendered him unable to function in the workplace.   

Stuart has had cases with favorable defense findings written up in the Tennessee Attorneys Memo and including having a defense ruling highlighted as a lead case there.  He successfully excluded from a joint workers' compensation and retaliatory discharge lawsuit a number of legal theories designed to provide the foundation for a multimillion dollar award for the plaintiffs.  The dismissal of these numerous claims of the plaintiffs was sustained in the Tennessee Court of Appeals. 

Stuart has also successfully defended a lawsuit asserting millions of dollars in damages which arose out of a tractor trailer making contact with a small school bus.  The school bus was transporting disabled children.  Stuart was able to establish that, as a matter of law, there was no wrongdoing by the tractor trailer driver. 

Stuart is a member of the Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations.  He is a member of the Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association. 

Stuart was nominated by an appellate judge and accepted into the Harry Phillips American Inns of Court.  The mission of the American Inns of Court is to foster excellence and professionalism, ethics, civility and legal skills for judges and lawyers, academicians and students of the law in order to perfect the quality, availability and efficiency of justice in the United States.  There are no more than 90 active members that are invited to join the American Inns of Court, at any given time in the entire Middle Tennessee Area.