About Scott Alan
Scott Alan Andresen built the foundation of his career in the classroom. He earned a B.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990. He went on to receive a J.D. from Valparaiso University School of Law in 1996 and completed an M.B.A. at the University of Phoenix in 2002. Those degrees set the stage for a practice that crosses law, business, and education.
His early professional path included a staff role that exposed him to the commercial and regulatory side of sports. In 2000 he served as a senior staff lawyer for the Arena Football League, handling legal matters for a professional sports organization. A few years later he opened his own practice. In 2005 he founded Andresen & Associates, P.C., establishing offices in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.
Teaching has been a recurring thread in his career. He joined Columbia College Chicago as an adjunct professor in 2005 and later taught graduate students at Northwestern University’s Graduate School of Professional Studies in 2012. Those classroom roles run alongside his private practice work. He has balanced academic duties with client work and community involvement for much of his career.
Andresen’s bar admissions span federal and state courts. He is admitted in Illinois and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He also holds admission to the United States Supreme Court and to federal district courts, including the Northern District of Illinois and the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Those credentials support litigation and appellate work across several jurisdictions.
Professional associations have been a substantial part of his public profile. He has been a member of the American Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association since 1999. Within the Chicago Bar Association he chaired the Sports Law Committee and previously led the Lawyer Referral Service program from 2005 through 2017. He is a long-standing member of the Sports Lawyers Association and volunteers through Lawyers for the Creative Arts.
Outside of private practice, he founded Gord Being Gord, NFP in 2012 and serves as the organization’s executive director. That nonprofit work complements his legal and teaching activities and reflects interests beyond the courtroom.
He maintains an active practice at Andresen & Associates, P.C., handling matters that draw on his experience in sports law, pro bono arts work, and civil litigation.
