Scott P. Clark, Esq. is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts and New York. Scott focuses his federal immigration practice on employment-based immigrant and non-immigrant visas, as well as waivers of inadmissibility and removal defense before the Immigration Courts in the Northeast. Additionally Scott advocates for his clients in the family courts for divorce, child custody and support issues, as well as criminal defense work in the district courts for our immigrant clients and their families.
Scott is a 2011 graduate of Roger Williams University School of Law. There he served as president of the LGBT Alliance, revamping and revitalizing the organization. He competed in the Texas Young Lawyers National Trial Competition and the American Association for Justice Student Trial Advocacy Competition.
As a summer associate, Scott worked in a general practice civil litigation firm where he gained firsthand experience with complex legal issues arising out of real estate transactions, domestic matters, and personal injury claims. While still a law student, Scott worked with the New York Commission for Human Rights as an adjudicator. He analyzed the legal merit of motions to dismiss filed by respondents charged with violating New York’s anti-discrimination laws and he drafted decisions that then became final orders of the Commission under their purview and direct supervision.
Scott’s pre-law background is in Microbiology—bringing to Best & Associates a level of general technical competence extremely useful in dealing with the firm’s biotech industry clients. His post baccalaureate career was as a scientist for start-up biomaterials company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There, he specialized in early discovery research screening new materials for efficacy in consumer care products. Scott’s experience in the life sciences and research generally is invaluable when securing business and employment-based visas for researchers, clinicians or innovative entrepreneurs seeking to work or live permanently in the United States.