Scott Summy
Recognized since 2006
Dallas, Texas
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs
Scott Summy is the leader of the Environmental Litigation Group (ELG) and a shareholder at Baron & Budd. ELG was started by Mr. Summy in 2002 and is comprised of 30 attorneys and support professionals who concentrate on large environmental litigation across the country. In 2020, Law360 recognized ELG with its highly prestigious Practice Group of the Year awards for the United States in the category of Environmental Law.
Mr. Summy has served both in court-appointed leadership positions and directly represented clients in some of the country’s largest environmental cases with national significance. It all began with a single phone call in August 1995 when Mr. Summy was a new lawyer. He received a call from a prospective client in North Carolina who had learned that he and his neighbors had been ingesting the chemical MTBE in their drinking water wells for years. Mr. Summy took the case, and after years of fighting for the residents’ rights and going to trial, the case resulted in a record settlement.
Mr. Summy soon learned that MTBE was contaminating drinking water wells all over America. That case proved to be only the first of many to come. Mr. Summy was hired by public water providers all over the country whose residents had contaminated wells. He became the “go to” lawyer for public entities facing environmental contamination which impacted their public resources. Mr. Summy has represented public entities from the east coast to the west coast and all across middle America. He and his ELG Team have recovered billions of dollars on behalf of their clients in environmental litigation.
- 3102 Oak Lawn Avenue, Suite 1100
Dallas, TX 75219
- Texas Tech University, J.D., graduated 1990
- Tarleton State University, BA, graduated 1986
- Texas, State Bar of Texas
- New York, State Bar of New York
- North Carolina, State Bar of North Carolina
- Louisiana, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Texas, United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western District of Texas
- Indiana, United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
- American Association for Justice, Environmental Law Section - Member
- American Water Works Association - Member
- Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies - Member
- Dallas Bar Association - Fellow
- International Municipal Lawyers Association Public Justice - Member
- State Bar of Texas, Environmental Law Section - Member
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- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs, Dallas/Fort Worth (2016)
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs
Law360 – Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar (2024)
America’s Top 200 Lawyers (Forbes, 2024)
Best Lawyers in Dallas (D Magazine, 2024)
500 Leading Energy Lawyers (Lawdragon, 2024)
Green 500: Leaders in Environmental Law (Lawdragon, 2024)
500 Leading Lawyers in America (Lawdragon, 2024)
500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers (Lawdragon, 2023-Present)
Law360 – Practice Group of the Year – Environmental Law category (2020, 2023)
9-Figure Litigator (America’s High Stakes Trial Lawyers, 2020)
Selected to America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators (2018 – 2020)
Selected as one of the “Premier 20 Over 20” trial attorneys for Texas for The National Academy of Jurisprudence (2017)
America’s Top 100 Attorneys – Lifetime Achievement Award
2016 Best Lawyers – “Lawyer of the Year” Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions (Dallas/Ft. Worth)
Best Lawyers in America in Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs (2006-2024)
Selected by Benchmark Litigation as a “Local Litigation Star” in Texas 2014 edition
Selected as Texas Super Lawyer – 12 consecutive years
Selected to be included as a 2013 Top Rated Lawyer in Energy, Environmental, & Natural Resources in the April issue of The American Lawyer & Corporate Counsel magazine
Two Time Finalist for the Prestigious national Public Justice Trial Lawyer of the Year Award (2009, 2013)
Recognized as a “highly recommended” attorney in Baron & Budd’s selection to the Legal 500 List (2012)
Selected by Benchmark Litigation, the Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys, as a Leading Plaintiffs Star in Texas (2012)
Selected as one of “The American Trial Lawyers Association’s Top 100 Trial Lawyers for Texas – 2008-2009”
Selected to be included in Lawdragon, 500 Leading Attorneys in the U.S. (2009 edition)
Selected as one of “The American Trial Lawyers Association’s Top 100 Trial Lawyers for Texas 2008”
Best Lawyers Under 40 in Dallas (D Magazine, 2004)
Selected by D Magazine as one of the “Best Lawyers in Dallas” (4 years)
California Lawyer Magazine Trial Lawyer of the Year Award (CLAY) for Environmental Law – MTBE Litigation 2001
Selected as 2022 Texas’ Best Lawyers
- Mass Tort Litigation
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