Robert Scot Clifford

Partner

clifford@luch.com
Phone: (626) 449-1882

Robert Scot Clifford, a partner in the firm's Pasadena office, has 30 years of experience advising public agencies and large non-profit institutions on issues including estate planning, business and employment law, including employee benefits, and related litigation. In addition, he represents such clients in litigation and administrative proceedings and has represented clients in more than 20 cases on appeal before the California Courts of Appeal, the California Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Early in his career, Mr. Clifford worked as a Deputy County Counsel in the Office of the County Counsel, Los Angeles County, serving in the Courts and Law Enforcement Division and the General Litigation Division.

Since 1990, Mr. Clifford has served as outside counsel for the County of Los Angeles, performing a variety of employment-related litigation and administrative matters for the Fire Department, Department of Health Services, Probation Department, Coroner, Department of Parks and Recreation, Department of Community and Senior Citizens Services, and Department of Children’s Services. He has handled cases before the EEOC, Civil Service Commission, Employee Relations Commission, Chief Administrative Office of the County of Los Angeles, and in federal and state court. He has tried more than 100 state and federal court cases.

He received his Juris Doctor degree from the Southwestern University School of Law where he graduated in the top ten percent of his class. At Southwestern he received American Jurisprudence awards for excellence in the study of Corporations and Criminal Law. Mr. Clifford obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Los Angeles with a major in History.

Throughout his career, Mr. Clifford has been active in his church and in various charitable and other service organizations. He is a member and past president of the Wilshire Rotary Club of Los Angeles and active in District Rotary committees. He is on the Board of Managers of the Hollywood-Wilshire Y.M.C.A. and was a member of the Wilshire Y.M.C.A. Board of Managers serving as Board Chairman from 1982-1984. In 2000, he was honored in his community as one of the Larchmont Chronicle's Men of Larchmont for his participation in community affairs.

He is a member of the State Bar of California, as well as the U.S. District Court: Central, Southern and Northern Districts of California. He is admitted to practice in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Clifford is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, California Bar Association and National Lawyers Association.