Scott A. Kane is a member of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. He represents financial institutions, manufacturers, technology companies, design and construction firms, securities and investment companies, and other businesses in a variety of commercial litigation matters in courts and arbitration proceedings throughout the United States. He also has extensive experience representing both debtors and creditors in bankruptcy related litigation.

Mr. Kane serves on the executive committee of the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky chapter of the Federal Bar Association. He also serves on the board of the Professionalism Committee of the Cincinnati Bar Association and is a member and past chairperson of the Common Pleas Court Committee. In 2008 he was given the Cincinnati Business Courier’s Forty Under 40 Award, recognizing the region’s up-and-coming business, community and economic leaders. In 2005, 2006 and 2007 Mr. Kane was honored as a Rising Star in Ohio Super Lawyers magazine, which recognizes preeminent younger lawyers in various fields of practice throughout Ohio. Prior to law school, Mr. Kane served in the United States Army Reserve and is a veteran of Operation Desert Storm.

Mr. Kane is the co-chair of the firm’s E-Discovery & Data Management Team, which serves as a resource for lawyers and clients in matters involving the preservation and discovery of electronic documents. As an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, Mr. Kane teaches a course on e-discovery issues. He is a frequent speaker in this practice area to clients, bar association groups and professional organizations. Mr. Kane is also a member of the Electronic Document Retention and Production Working Group of The Sedona Conference.

Representative Experience

• Serving as lead trial counsel for a group of Chapter 11 debtors in a case involving more than US$2 billion of claims including successfully defending the debtors’ plan of reorganization against objections by state environmental agencies, the United States and private creditors at a multiday contested confirmation hearing.
• Successfully defending a financial institution against class action claims by removing the case under the provisions of the Class Action Fairness Act and then obtaining dismissal of all claims in federal court prior to any ruling on class certification.
• Successfully resolving multimillion-dollar cost overrun claims against a team of design and engineering firms concerning the construction of a National Football League stadium.
• Advising the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Enron Corp. including litigation claims in the bankruptcy court and other jurisdictions, settlement issues, and the coordination of discovery for multifirm, multijurisdiction matters involving tens of millions of pages of discovery documents.
• Representing a Fortune 500 manufacturing company in litigation with its former CEO concerning severance and ERISA issues.
• Successfully representing a national banking association in complex litigation involving receivership, foreclosure on commercial real estate with ongoing business operations and lender liability claims.