Meet Scott Newar, Attorney at Law

Scott Newar is a native Texan, born and raised in Houston, where he currently resides.

From 1981-1985, Newar attended Stanford University.    

In his senior year at Stanford, Newar was honored with a prestigious internship in the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

After graduating from Stanford, Newar studied Chinese at Beijing University in Beijing, China.

From 1986-1989, Newar attended the University of Texas School of Law, where he was a member of the Texas International Law Journal and a co-winner of the Law School’s Phillip C. Jessup International Law moot court competition.

From 1989-1990, Newar served as a law clerk to The Honorable E. Grady Jolly on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

From 1991-1995, Newar worked as a Staff Attorney for East Texas Legal Services in Beaumont, Texas, where he represented low-income individuals throughout East Texas in cases involving employment, housing, education discrimination and other civil rights violations.

In 1996, Newar—who is Board-Certified in Labor/Employment law—started his law firm in Houston and Beaumont, specializing in Labor/Employment law.

Over the past 25 years, Newar has successfully represented thousands of workers and small companies and recovered millions of dollars against large national and multi-national corporations and local, state, and federal governments in cases involving whistleblower retaliation; race, age, gender, religion, disability, and national origin discrimination; FMLA violations; overtime pay violations; breach of contract; non-competition; trade secret misappropriation; and defamation.

Newar’s cases have generated widespread media coverage. See “Newar News.”

Newar has repeatedly been honored as a “Texas Super Lawyer.”