CONTACT
Monterey4 Lower Ragsdale Drive,
Suite 200
Monterey, CA 93940-5728
T 831.646.1501
F 831.646.1801
Vcard:
mscott@lozanosmith.com
EDUCATION
J.D., University of San Francisco School of Law
M.A., San Francisco State UniversityBAR ADMISSION
California, 1976CLIENT NEWS BRIEFS
Martha Buell Scott
Of Counsel
OverviewOf Counsel
Martha (Mattie) Buell Scott is Of Counsel in Lozano Smith's Monterey office. She has practiced education law in California for more than 30 years. Her practice crosses a variety of subject areas, including general education, labor and employment, special education, student issues, school finance, school district reorganization, federal and state constitutional issues, and the laws relating to English language learners. She also advises school districts on all matters concerning charter schools, including petition review, oversight, revocation, and charter school facilities requests under Proposition 39.
Her background also includes five years of solo practice in education law. Before that, she was first an associate and then a partner with Breon, Galgani, Godino & O'Donnell.
Articles
Ms. Scott is active in the International Association for the Semiotics of Law. Some of her publications include: "Love, Lust, Lies, Mozart, and the Office of the Special Prosecutor," We, the People, 1999; "A Functional Examination of Hate Speech," Semiotics, 1997; "We, the People: Revolution and Authorial Identity," Revolutions, Institutions, Law, 1998; and "Sexual Harassment: A Semiotic Perspective," Semiotics, 1996.
Education
Ms. Scott received her law degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law and a Masters degree in English, with an emphasis in Creative Writing, from San Francisco State University.