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Professional Experience
Scott M. Strauss, a former claims specialist with State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, leads the Barber Law Firm’s insurance coverage practice group.

Practice Areas

• Insurance defense litigation
• Insurance coverage
• Aviation law
• Commercial litigation
• ERISA
• Labor and employment law

Court Admissions

• United States Supreme Court
• Arkansas Supreme Court
• U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
• U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas

Professional Associations

• American Bar Association member
• Arkansas Bar Association member
• Pulaski County Bar Association member

Community Involvement

• Volunteered at troop, district, council and regional levels of the Boy Scouts of America.
• Recipient of the National Order of the Arrow Founder’s Award and the Vigil Honors.
• Recipient of the Arkansas Bar Association’s Lawyer Community Legacy Award for Excellence and Volunteer Community Service.

Presentations and Thought Leadership

• Authored “The Arkansas Several Liability “Catch 22”: The Civil Justice Reform Act Post Johnson” article published by The Arkansas Lawyer, Fall 2011
• Authored “An Agent’s Guide: What is Full Coverage” article, June 2011.
• Authored “A Real Conundrum” article published in The Daily Record, December 2010.
• Conducts in-house seminars for firm clients and attorneys on insurance law.
• CLE program focused on Commercial General Liability Policy (CGL) changes and how specifically those changes impact construction companies.
• An Overview of Arkansas Law prepared for the insurance industry.
• Strauss co-authored the texts: “Insurance Laws: Third Party coverage in Arkansas” and “Insurance Coverage Law in Arkansas.”
• How to Read and Understand the Commercial General Liability (CGL) presented to the Arkansas Bar Association’s 2011 annual meeting.

Noteworthy

• Teaches courses leading to the Associate in Claims (AIC) designation.
• Licensed pilot.
• Former Associate Editor of the UALR Law Journal.

Education

• J.D., University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law
• Undergraduate degree, Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.