Scott Fera
Senior Counsel
Scott Fera is a Senior Counsel in the Sacramento office of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, where he provides advice, counsel, and trainings to our public agency, public and private education and nonprofit clients in a wide range of matters spanning from labor and employment, business and facility use, nonprofit governance, Title IX, and student issues.
Scott has over 20 years’ experience serving in general advice & counsel roles within the public sector, nonprofits, and higher education. He is the former General Counsel and Vice President of Special Projects for Jessup University in Rocklin, California and was Senior Counsel to Educational Media Foundation, the nonprofit parent company to the K-Love, Air1, and Accessmore media networks. He is also a former Deputy County Counsel for Sacramento County where he advised several boards and commissions and represented numerous county departments and special districts. Scott most recently was corporate counsel for an insurer who specializes in religious nonprofit organizations where he provided general advice and counsel to hundreds of colleges and universities, K-12 schools, camps, churches, and other ministries on a variety of employment, higher education, nonprofit, constitutional, intellectual property, governance, and regulatory issues.
In addition to his legal expertise, Scott is an adjunct faculty member at Jessup, teaching media law, ethics, and digital communication classes. He provided instruction on a multitude of courses in addition to authoring multiple presentations and publications. Scott regularly speaks at national conferences and hosts webinars on legal issues that nonprofit and higher education organizations face in their daily operations.
Scott earned his J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu California. As an undergrad, Scott attended the University of Michigan where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.
