Scott M. Karson graduated from SUNY at Stony Brook and Syracuse University College of Law (cum laude), where he was an editor of the Syracuse Law Review. He served as an Assistant District Attorney of Suffolk County and, thereafter, as principal law clerk to Justice Lawrence J. Bracken of the Appellate Division, Second Department. Since joining our firm in 1987, Mr. Karson has concentrated his practice on appellate matters, as well as municipal, civil rights, commercial, real property, personal injury and criminal litigation. He is the Chair of the firm's Professional Ethics Committee. He is a past President of the Suffolk County Bar Association and previously served as Chair of the SCBA's Appellate Practice, Judicial Screening, Bylaws Revision and Legislative Review Committees. He is the recipient of the SCBA's President's and Directors' Awards. He served as Managing Director of the Suffolk County Bar Pro Bono Foundation and is an Officer and Director of Nassau/Suffolk Law Services Committee, Inc. He is the former Vice President of the Suffolk Academy of Law and has frequently lectured for the Academy, as well as the New York State Bar Association, on appellate practice. He is a former Chair of the NYSBA Committee on Courts of Appellate Jurisdiction, a former member of the NYSBA House of Delegates, a Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation, and a member of the American Bar Association House of Delegates. He was selected to appear in the 2008 New York Super Lawyers Metro Edition in the area of appellate counsel.
Education
SUNY at Stony Brook (B.A., 1972)Syracuse University College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1975)
