GBGF-LAW SCOTT W. FISHER
SCOTT W. FISHER


SCOTT W. FISHER graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1971 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He received a Master of Arts in Mathematics Education in 1974 from Brooklyn College. Following his graduation from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Mr. Fisher was an educator employed by the New York City Board of Education in a wide variety of pedagogical areas including curriculum development in mathematics.

Mr. Fisher graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1982. Following his graduation from law school, he joined the firm currently known as Garwin Gerstein & Fisher LLP, where he has worked on many major consumer class actions, stockholder class and derivative litigations. Mr. Fisher has been appointed lead or co-lead counsel in various securities litigations. Most recently Mr. Fisher served as co-trial counsel in Delaware Chancery Court in the M&F Worldwide Corp. Shareholder Litigation, Del. Ch. Consolidated C.A. No. 18502 NC (V.C. Strine), a case which resulted in a complete victory for M&F shareholders. He also had a prominent role in the pre-trial and trial proceedings of the fen/phen diet drug product liability class action litigation tried before the Honorable Marina Corodemus in New Jersey Superior Court in 1999, which was resolved as part of a global resolution of diet drug cases for in excess of $4 billion. Vadino, et al. v. American Home Products Corp., et al., Diet Drug Case #240.

Mr. Fisher has lectured at a Lorman sponsored conference on issues raised in connection with the settlement of class actions, including the use of mediation to facilitate settlements, and has appeared as a panel member at a New York State Bar Association conference discussing inter alia class action practice from the plaintiff's perspective.

Mr. Fisher is admitted to the Bars of the State of New York and of the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the District of Arizona, the Eastern District of Michigan, the Courts of Appeal for the Second, Third, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits and the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Fisher is also a member of The Association of The Bar of The City of New York and The New York State Bar Association.