Mr Andrew Scroggins > Seyfarth Shaw LLP > Chicago, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Andrew Scroggins
Work Department
Labor and Employment Department; Complex Discrimination Litigation Practice Group
Position
Andy Scroggins is a member of the firm’s Complex Discrimination Litigation and Wage & Hour Litigation Practice Groups. He regularly represents companies across the country facing class actions, collective actions, pattern or practice lawsuits, and systemic investigations, involving hundreds to thousands of putative class members. He also has extensive experience on matters before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, ranging from the early charge stage to systemic litigation. He has been lead counsel for Epic Systems in the district and appellate courts, and co-counsel at the United States Supreme Court, in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, which established that employers lawfully may require employees to enter into an arbitration agreement containing a waiver of the ability to participate in a class or collective action against an employer. He also served as counsel for M&G Polymers at the district and appellate courts, and before the United States Supreme Court, in Tackett v. M&G Polymers, a significant ruling for employers which overturned the Sixth Circuit’s decades-old “Yard-Man presumption” in cases involving the interpretation of collective bargaining agreements and the duration of retiree health benefits.
Career
Andy joined Seyfarth Shaw LLP in 2015 and has been a partner since 2017. Prior to beginning his legal practice, Andy worked for nine years in the headquarters human resources group of a global consulting firm, counseling executives, HR professionals, and line managers on topics such as EEO and affirmative action compliance, diversity, data privacy, and investigations of employee misconduct.
Memberships
American Bar Association; Executive Committee Member, Associate Board of the Merit School of Music
Education
JD, University of Illinois College of Law (2005), summa cum laude; MS, Northwestern University (1999); BA, University of Illinois (1995)
Leisure
Andy enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, playing music (guitar and piano), and distance swimming.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious