Scott recognized as leading business lawyer

Law Talk profile for The Memphis Daily News

Sept. 30, 2010

Attorney W. Rowlett Scott was recently recognized in the current edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2010.

It’s what might be expected from an attorney with Scott’s 49 years of experience or his place at the old guard institution of Burch Porter & Johnson PLLC. Yet his entrance into the legal profession seems less than preordained.

The son of a grocer, Scott graduated from Yale University with a degree in chemical engineering.

“I was good in math and science and I had no earthly idea how I would get employed after I got out of college,” Scott said. “At the time I entered college, I heard that engineers were being employed so that’s the reason I got into that.”

His decision to then enter Yale Law School was more purposeful, more inspired … (read more)