Scott W. Parker

Scott is a co-founder of PIB Law, a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, and a co-chair of the firm's Trial and Class Action Practice Group. 

As an advocate, commercial litigator and trial lawyer with more than 20 years of experience, Scott regularly appears in both state and federal courts across the United States. He represents clients ranging from corporations, financial institution, and investment managers across a wide spectrum of commercial litigation matters, including banking, subpoena responses, intellectual property (patents and trademarks) and contract law. He also frequently briefs and argues appeals in the Appellate Divisions of New York and New Jersey, and has obtained numerous favorable decisions on behalf of the firm’s clients.  

Scott has also represented clients in multiple federal and state court jurisdictions in a wide variety of consumer and commercial class actions, including alleged TCPA and FDCPA violations, state consumer protection laws and the UCC, mortgage loan originations and private mortgage insurance, forum selection and venue clauses in consumer mortgage loan documents and FHA disclosures.

Additionally, Scott has extensive experience in providing regulatory advice to banks, mortgage servicers and commercial lenders involving the CFPB, OCC, DOJ, state attorneys general and banking agencies, and the FDIC among others. Scott has also been involved in the restructuring of customer complaint groups for several national banks in order to ensure better compliance with various applicable regulatory standards.

Prior to co-founding the firm, Scott served as in-house counsel in the mortgage division at JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., where he supervised outside counsel in hundreds of cases involving all aspects of mortgage-related litigation, including multiple class actions. This in-house experience gave Scott a unique, in-depth perspective on efficient problem-solving for clients. Scott also clerked in the Southern District of New York for the Honorable Loretta A. Preska, formerly the Chief Judge.

Scott was selected to the New Jersey Law Journal’s inaugural Professional Excellence Award in the category of Individual Recognition for Mentorship. He is a member of the Committee on Appellate Practice, and the Committee on Legislative and Judicial Initiatives, of the New York State Bar Association’s Commercial and Federal Litigation Section.

• Banking Litigation:  Represented JPMorgan in contested foreclosure action.  In JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association v. Miodownik (N.Y. App. Div.), New York’s Appellate Division, First Department, affirmed the Supreme Court’s denial of the borrower’s motion to dismiss JPMorgan’s foreclosure complaint.  The First Department held that, pursuant to the September 25, 2008 Purchase and Assumption Agreement between JPMorgan and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, JPMorgan acquired the loans and loan commitments of Washington Mutual Bank from the FDIC as receiver – and that, pursuant to Section 2.5 of the P&A Agreement, JPMorgan did not assume WaMu’s liability associated with those loans.  See 937 N.Y.S.2d 192 (1st Dep’t 2012).
• RMBS Litigation:  Represented JPMorgan in RMBS investor action.  In Nationwide Bank, FSB v. J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp., Civil Action No. 1:16-cv-09284 (S.D.N.Y.), plaintiff alleged breach of contract based upon an alleged violation of the parties’ Flow Mortgage Loan Purchase and Warranties Agreement.  Plaintiff filed a voluntary dismissal of the complaint, shortly after Mr. Parker set forth JPMorgan’s anticipated motion to dismiss the complaint.
• FIRREA Litigation:  Represented JPMorgan in quiet title action filed by plaintiffs against bank, alleging that the plaintiffs’ obligations under their $1.425 million promissory Note should be discharged.  In John G. Berg v. JP Morgan Chase, National Association, Civil Action No. 14-04298 (E.D. Pa.), the court granted JPMorgan’s motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s complaint.  The court found that plaintiffs’ claims were barred by FIRREA based upon plaintiffs’ failure to exhaust their administrative remedies as required by section 1821(d) of FIRREA – and that no court had could exercise subject matter jurisdiction over the plaintiffs’ claims.
• Intellectual Property:  Represented VNTANA, an interactive hologram technologies company, in patent infringement action.  In Hologram USA, Inc. v. VNTANA, Civil Action No. 2:14-cv-09489 (C.D. Cal.), the case settled after VNTANA filed a motion for summary judgment of non-infringement of the plaintiff’s patent.

Notable Appellate Decisions

• JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. v. Multani, 147 N.Y.S.3d 452 (2d Dep’t 2021)

• JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. v. Gottlieb, 188 A.D.3d 1171 (2d Dep’t 2020)

• JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association v. Futterman, 173 A.D.3d 1496 (3d Dep’t 2019)
• JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association v. Yang, 170 A.D.3d 694 (2d Dep’t 2019)
• U.S. Bank N.A. v. Roque, 172 A.D.3d 948 (2d Dep’t 2019)
• JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. v. Grinkorn, 172 A.D.3d 1183 (2d Dep’t 2019)
• U.S. Bank, N.A. v. Mezrahi, 169 A.D.3d 952 (2d Dep’t 2019)
• JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association v. Lu, 64 N.Y.S.3d 542 (1st Dep’t 2017)
• Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Fortmeyer, 63 N.Y.S.3d 92 (2d Dep’t 2017)
• JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association v. Venture, 48 N.Y.S.3d 824 (3d Dep’t 2017)
• JPMorgan Chase Bank f/k/a The Chase Manhattan Bank v. Kaba, 41 N.Y.S.3d 706 (1st Dep’t 2016)
• JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association v. Todd, 5 N.Y.S.3d 181 (2d Dep’t 2015)
• Wilson v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., 2014 WL 1716093 (N.J. App. Div. 2014)
• JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association v. Shapiro, 959 N.Y.S.2d 918 (1st Dep’t 2013)
• JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association v. Miodownik, 937 N.Y.S.2d 192 (1st Dep’t 2012)

Honors & Recognitions

New Jersey Law Journal Professional Excellence Honor, Mentor

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