About Scott Wadding
Scott is the Managing Partner of Sease & Wadding whose trial and appellate practice focuses on helping people and businesses win inside and outside the courtroom. Scott’s cases include business disputes, constitutional litigation, intellectual property, professional liability, and personal injury. Scott is results driven and has significant experience wrestling with complex and novel trial and appellate issues. He has an inside perspective of the appellate process, which has proven critical to developing successful legal strategies in state and federal trial and appellate courts. Scott has successfully represented people and companies in cases of all sizes and degrees of complexity, including successfully trying several jury and bench trials to verdict, obtaining an outright dismissal for a homeless man against a predatory lender, developing successful legal strategies to exclude key expert witness testimony in a nine-figure intellectual property case, crafting and implementing winning trial strategies for damages in high-stakes and bet-the-company intellectual property and business tort cases.
Education
Legal Education
- Drake University Law School, Des Moines, Iowa, 2010
- J.D.
- Honors: Highest Honors
- Honors: AAJ Mock Trial Team
- Honors: Certificate in Litigation and Dispute Resolution
- Honors: Order of the Coif
Non Legal Education
- University of Northern Iowa, 2006
- B.A.
- Honors: Purple and Old Gold Award
Current Employment Position(s)
- Managing Partner
Representative Cases
- Herbst v. Sioux County et al.
- Schiebout v. Sioux County et al.
- John Doe v. Jasper County
- John Doe v. Archdiocese of Dubuque
- Sprint v. Cox (D. Del.)
- Sprint v. Comcast (D. Kan. 2018)
- Bagbey v. DePhillips et al.
- Smith et al. v. Godwin Realty et al.
- Sprint v. Time Warner Cable (D. Kan.)
- M.L. v. Immanuel Lutheran Church
- Vergara v. California (Cal.)
- StrikeForce Technologies Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation (D. Del.)
- Oracle USA v. Rimini Street, Inc. (D. Nev.)
Pro Bono Activities
- Volunteer Attorney, Iowa Legal Aid
- Chair, Cedar Rapids NAACP Legal Redress Committee
- Board Member, American Red Cross, Eastern Iowa Area
Published Works
Articles
- Co-Author, "Legislating Civil Liability of Automated Vehicles," The Iowa Lawyer (March 2021)
- Co-Author, Mechanics’ Liens Go Viral: Lessons from Iowa to Utah, Division 7 of the ABA Forum on Construction (January 2013).
- Co-Author, Criminal Law Newsletter, Drake University Law School (2010).
- Co-Editor, 4 Iowa Practice Series, Criminal Law (West 2010).
Bar Admissions
- Iowa
- Missouri
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Iowa
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Iowa
- Eastern District of Illinois
- U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit
Other Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- Iowa State Bar Association Litigation Legislative Committee, 2020 - Present
- Linn County Bar Association
- Dean Mason Ladd Inn of Court
- Iowa Bar Association
Attorney Details
| Full Name | Scott Wadding |
| Firm | Sease & Wadding |
| Address | 104 SW 4th Street, Suite A, Rumely Building, Des Moines, IA 50309 |
| Phone | 515-883-2222 |
| Website | seasewadding.com |
| New Clients | ✓ Currently accepting |