Miles Scully is a senior partner and a member of the firm’s executive committee. He practices in the San Diego, Los Angeles and Orange County offices. An award-winning trial attorney, Mr. Scully has tried numerous jury and non-jury cases, and has received Martindale-Hubbell’s highest possible rating (AV) for his lawyering and professionalism.
He has been named one of the Top Ten Business Trial Attorneys by The Daily Transcript, a Southern California business publication. In 2009, 2008 and 2007, Law & Poltics magazine named Mr. Scully a "Super Lawyer" in its research of the top 5% of Southern California lawyers in the category of Business Litigation. Mr. Scully was in the Top 50 receiving the highest point totals in the balloting process.
Mr. Scully is a former managing partner of the firm’s three Southern California offices which have grown from 10 to nearly 150 attorneys in the last seven years. He now serves on the firm’s executive committee with responsibilities for financial issues and strategic growth. He has helped the firm open and grow offices in New York, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Las Vegas, Seattle, Phoenix and Denver. Gordon & Rees now has a nationwide presence and is one of the Top 200 firms in the country with nearly 400 attorneys in sixteen offices throughout the U.S. Mr. Scully was recently named California's 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year by the Business Defense and Advisory Council.
During the course of his career, Mr. Scully has successfully litigated complex commercial, employment, and environmental cases that have involved hundreds of millions of dollars in controversy.
Mr. Scully received his J.D. from The Ohio State University College of Law where he received awards for both his written and oral advocacy. He also was graduated, cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in both journalism and political science from Ohio University. He has served as a Federal District Court extern clerk, and is the recipient of the Quill & Scroll National writing award.
Mr. Scully has served as a court-appointed arbitrator and mediator. He has also served as an editor and civil litigation columnist to Bar Association publications, on the County Legislative and Superior Court Bar Association Committees, and on the Big Brothers Board of Directors.
He is a member of the State Bar of California, licensed to practice in all state and federal courts. He has been participating a member of the Corporate Directors Forum, American Bar Association, American Inns of Court, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the Defense Research Institute, the Southern California Association of Defense Counsel and the San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County and San Francisco Bar Associations.
Publications
Recent Trends In Federal Securities Fraud Class Action Litigation
by Miles D. Scully and Matthew C. Elstein
