About Scott Patrick
Scott Patrick Mallery earned his J.D. from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 2011 after completing a B.A. in Political Science and Spanish at the University of California, Davis in 2006. His academic record shows an early and steady engagement with both law and the broader civic landscape, a background that has informed his subsequent teaching and practice.
He began gaining practical legal experience while still in law school. In 2010 he worked as a law clerk at Green & Hall, APC. During his final year he served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Frank C. Damrell, Jr. in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California and then completed a judicial law clerkship at that same court in 2011.
Those early courtroom and clerkship experiences were followed by private practice roles. He joined LeClairRyan as an associate in 2015. That position was part of a period when he balanced litigation work with periodic teaching assignments at institutions he would later return to as an adjunct.
Mallery has maintained a parallel career in legal education. He taught Legal Research and Writing at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 2013 and later returned there to teach Contracts in 2017. In 2021 he served as an adjunct professor of Civil Procedure at Lincoln Law School of Sacramento. His course work spans foundational lawyering skills and doctrinal subjects, and his classroom roles have run alongside his practice commitments.
Between law firm engagements he worked outside traditional practice in 2016 as a political consultant for McKinley + Pillows. That role added a policy and campaign-oriented dimension to his experience and provided a counterpoint to his litigation and academic work.
In 2020 Mallery took on the role of counsel at Seyfarth Shaw LLP. He is admitted to practice in California and has experience tied to federal court procedure, reflected in his earlier clerkship. His combined background in courtroom practice, teaching, and consultancy informs how he approaches cases and advises clients.
He continues to operate from a practice based in California. He currently serves as counsel at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, and his practice covers civil litigation and procedural matters in California courts.
