About Michael Scott
Michael Scott Bosworth studied history at Princeton before heading to Yale Law School, where he earned his J.D. in 2003. His academic path combined broad liberal-arts grounding and intensive legal training. That blend would shape an early career spent largely in public service and in courtrooms.
After law school Bosworth began a succession of clerkships that placed him at the center of federal adjudication. He clerked for Judge Jed S. Rakoff at the U.S. District Court in 2003 and then for Judge Robert A. Katzmann at the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2004. He joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in 2005 as an Assistant U.S. Lawyer and rose to co-lead the Complex Frauds Unit by 2011. Those years in the SDNY involved high-stakes investigations and litigation in a busy federal venue.
In 2007 Bosworth spent a term at the Supreme Court as a law clerk to Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer. He later served as Special Counsel to the Director of the FBI in 2013, a role that placed him at the intersection of enforcement and national security law. The following year he moved to the White House, where he was Deputy Counsel to the President and Deputy Assistant to the President in 2014. Those positions required handling sensitive legal issues across agencies and advising senior officials on complex legal questions.
Bosworth transitioned into roles that combined legal practice, compliance, and teaching. In 2017 he took on two concurrent positions: Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor at NYU School of Law, and Senior Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at MacAndrews & Forbes. He later became Deputy General Counsel at the same company in 2019. Each step reflected a move toward corporate legal work while keeping ties to public law and legal education.
In 2020 Bosworth joined Latham & Watkins LLP as a partner. His practice has drawn on earlier prosecutorial and government experience, addressing corporate compliance, government investigations, and litigation strategy. He is admitted to practice in New York and maintains a practice that bridges government-facing matters and corporate legal work. He currently practices at Latham & Watkins LLP, focusing on government investigations, regulatory matters, and internal compliance counseling.
