Thursday, June 29th
8 a.m PST | 11 a.m EST
Offered by Will Work For Food and moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com)
This worldwide conversation will be like nothing else. Join in! Share, learn, have fun, and raise money for food banks.
Mr. Partidge invites you to support Second Harvest Food Bank, New Orleans
Our special guest this week is Scott Partridge, Principal, Partridge LLC; former General Counsel Bayer US will Present on:
Relationship-Based Dispute Resolution and Conflict Prevention
Scott will review his journey to resolve decades of conflicts in the agricultural biotech industry and his success in preventing new conflicts across an industry with a long history of contentious litigation.
Scott S. Partridge
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Scott Partridge received his J.D. and LL.M. degrees from Tulane Law School and began his legal career at Lemle Kelleher in New Orleans where he was elected the youngest member of the Firm ever to serve on both the Management and Executive Committees. After fifteen years in private practice at this large law firm, Scott formed his own boutique litigation firm in 1995 with twenty-three lawyers. In the first ten years his law firm grew to seventy-five attorneys, involved almost exclusively in complex, high-risk civil litigation. While serving as the Managing Partner of Frilot Partridge, Scott built a national practice representing a diverse set of US and international clients, as both plaintiffs and defendants, in a wide array of matters, including class actions, mass torts, as well as commercial and maritime disputes.
In 2006, Scott accepted the role of Chief Deputy General Counsel of Monsanto Company and assumed responsibility for a variety of high-profile litigations, class actions, mass torts, commercial disputes, as well as investigations and litigations involving federal and state governments. With an intense high-profile litigation docket, Scott created new processes to resolve disputes while also maintaining a principled approach to advancing cases to trial.
To increase the company’s focus on the management of disputes, Scott moved from the Law Team into a business leadership role as Vice President of Global Strategy. Leading this Strategy Team with a focus on dispute resolution, Scott ended decades of class action and mass tort litigation involving Monsanto’s legacy manufacturing sites in West Virginia, Illinois, and Alabama, and resolved product liability class actions and business disputes.
In recognition of developing these transformative programs, the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) honored Scott in 2016 with CPR’s inaugural Inspiring Innovation Award.
As the agriculture industry began to consolidate, Scott was at the forefront of negotiating and concluding the merger between Monsanto and its new parent Bayer. For over twenty months, he helped conclude the merger, with final approval by all global competition regulators. Following the combination of the two companies, recognizing Scott’s unique value, Bayer asked him to serve as General Counsel of Bayer US, a role he occupied from 2018 until he stepped down at the end of 2022 to launch Partridge LLC.
Over the past decades, Scott Partridge has assumed a leadership role in advancing alternative dispute resolution policies nationwide, including membership on the Boards of Directors of the prestigious International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution, as well as the American Arbitration Association International Center for Dispute Resolution Foundation. And just recently in 2022, he became a member of the Board of Advisors of the highly regarded non-profit RAND Center for Mass Claims and Compensation.