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Aug. 13, 2021

Velvet Hammer

Scott Markus is great with clients, but no pushover, lawyers say.

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Employment, professional liability, catastrophic injury, real property, business disputes

Scott S. Markus has mediated more than 4,000 cases over the past three decades, but one dispute involving medical malpractice claims and a plaintiff facing a terminal cancer diagnosis will always stand out.

The case settled for nearly seven figures 25 years ago, according to Markus. The plaintiff -- a nurse who had long worked with children suffering from cancer -- donated a substantial portion of that money to renovate and impr... (continued)

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