Bio
Scott Sinder is a partner in Steptoe's Washington office and he is the chair of the firm’s Government Affairs & Public Policy Group. Scott also serves as the outside General Counsel for the CRE Finance Council. He represents trade associations and companies, as both a legislative advocate and a litigator, on a wide range of issues in state and federal trial and appellate courts, in state legislatures and Congress, and before regulatory agencies.
Scott’s current projects include legislative and regulatory work on a wide range of issues including tax reform and various financial services regulatory reform initiatives. He also represents clients in conjunction with the Securities & Exchange Commission’s proposed ESG disclosure rules and in the on-going re-evaluation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act before both Congress and the pertinent federal agencies.
An experienced commercial and public law litigator, Scott has represented clients in class action, antitrust, copyright, redistricting, and other complex civil litigation cases. His experience includes serving as lead counsel in a series of successful constitutional challenges the Council asserted against state “countersignature” laws.
Scott is a member of the bars of the United States Supreme Court and of numerous United States district and appellate courts, as well as in the District of Columbia and Colorado. Mr. Sinder received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1988, his M.P.P. from the University of Michigan Institute of Public Policy Studies in 1987 and his A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1984.