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Scott L. ShapiroPartner Contact Info: Practice Areas: Additional Areas of Expertise Bio Scott Shapiro is helping clients implement more than a billion dollars in flood protection improvement projects in California's Central Valley. Scott is at the center of massive flood protection improvement projects, advising clients through regulatory, contractual, financing, and legislative challenges. Acting as general or special counsel, he has appeared before the Central Valley Flood Protection Board dozens of times, and regularly interacts with senior management at the California Department of Water Resources and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (both headquarters and Sacramento District). In fact, he was named to the National Section 408 Task Force. Scott was instrumental in helping the first regional flood improvement agency that took a basin threatened by flood risk from less than 30 year level of protection to a level of protection approaching 200 year. He regularly interacts with FEMA on issues of floodplain mapping and levee accreditation and is perhaps best known for his ability to develop collaborative environments in which he fosters win-win solutions for his clients. Scott also has extensive experience with litigation, with special focus on cases arising from levee failures. Scott has litigated levee failures resulting from underseepage, failed encroachments, and rodent burrows. He has briefed levee overtopping cases at the appellate level and is one of the few attorneys with experience litigating flood cases on behalf of plaintiffs as well as defendant government entities. Within the area of water resources, Scott has developed special expertise in evaluating and demonstrating the availability of water supply for new uses. This includes assisting clients complying with “S.B. 610” and “S.B.221,” the State laws requiring a demonstrated water supply for new development. He is the author of two articles on performing due diligence for water supply transactions and frequently evaluates water supplies to be used by developers, wineries, and local districts, then advising those clients on the legitimacy of the supplies. He is as capable at advising a CEO on business opportunities as he is briefing a public agency board in closed session on policy decisions. Early in his career Scott developed an expertise in the specialized area of federal reclamation law. He was one of the first attorneys in the nation to negotiate a renewal of a long-term water supply contract with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (for a project in Southern California), and subsequently negotiated other long-term water supply contracts for municipal and industrial uses in Northern California and southern Nevada. Most recently, Scott helped research, develop, and litigate claims on behalf of local agencies against the United States resulting in a settlement that saved the local agencies more than $100 million. Scott speaks frequently at legal, engineering, and trade conferences. He is the vice-chair of the legal affairs committee for the Association of California Water Agencies and is Editor-in-Chief of the National Publication: Floodplain Management and Liability Reporter. Scott has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Davis, King Hall School of Law and still guest lectures at a number of schools. Scott is licensed in both California and Nevada. He was awarded a J.D. cum laude from Lewis and Clark Law School's nationally recognized environmental law program and received a bachelor of Science in Environmental Planning and Design from Rutgers University.
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