Scott P. Moore

Scott P. Moore represents public and private sector clients in employment, ADA, and fair housing matters. Scott has substantial experience in defending and counseling clients in class/collective actions, including pattern or practice cases brought by the federal government, involving allegations of disability discrimination under the ADA, GINA, FMLA, the Fair Housing Act, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Scott is widely recognized as a national expert in ADA and fair housing law. Scott served as a Deputy Chief of the Employment Litigation Section and a Senior Trial Attorney in the Housing Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. In those roles, Scott lead the Department’s enforcement actions on some of the largest employment, ADA, and fair housing pattern or practice cases brought by the United States. Scott’s personal experience as a person with a disability who uses a wheelchair combined with over 25 years of legal experience puts him in a unique position to represent employers and housing providers on issues arising under various disability discrimination and accessibility laws.

Scott has applied this unique experience in defending clients in numerous class/collective actions and pattern or practice cases brought by the U.S. Department of Justice. Courts have also selected Scott as a court-appointed monitor to oversee complex injunctive relief ordered under the ADA and Fair Housing Act. Scott also has a robust counseling and training practice in which he provides training and preventative representation of the employers and housing industry clients and national organizations. He also serves as a legal specialist for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Fair Housing Accessibility First program.

Since 2009, Scott has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in the fields of Employment, Labor, Real Estate, and Litigation and was named the Best Lawyers’ 2019 Labor and Employment “Lawyer of the Year” for Omaha. Scott has been listed in the Great Plains Super Lawyers (© 2013). Scott has been recognized in the Lawyer Spotlight by the American Bar Association Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law. Scott served as the Chair of the Diversity Committee of the Nebraska State Bar Association in 2019-20.

Scott is married and the father of twin daughters. He is an avid wheelchair hand cyclist and serves on the Board of Directors of the AllPlay Foundation, the Ataxia Foundation, and the Midwest Housing Development Fund, Inc.