Elizabeth Fegan

“Ms. Fegan demonstrated to me during her work in the NCAA Student-Athlete Concussion MDL that she is very astute, hard-working and, perhaps most important of all in this circumstance, fair and level-headed.”

  – The Honorable John Z. Lee

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Elizabeth is on the vanguard in the legal battles surrounding sexual assault, abuse, and harassment. She demonstrates an unrelenting commitment to helping individuals whom systems of discrimination and civil rights have wronged.

She has worked on the front lines of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, serving as lead counsel in the class-action lawsuit against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and representing California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom in connection with Weinstein’s criminal trial in Los Angeles. She’s also fought for female students abused by a University of Southern California health center gynecologist, which resulted in the creation of a $215 million fund for survivors and heralded in much-needed intuitional reforms on campus.

Her dedication to driving systemic change doesn’t stop there––she’s long been a critic of the NCAA and its failure to protect student-athletes in a range of ways. She has brought actions against the organization on behalf of student-athletes for antitrust violations related to transfer rules and caps on the number of scholarships a team may give, as well as for discriminatory practices that unfairly punish student-athletes at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. She has also represented student-athletes who have been sexually abused or harassed by NCAA coaches and other staff.

Elizabeth has successfully led numerous antitrust, consumer protection, and commercial class actions. She served in a leadership role on two historic multidistrict litigation (MDL) settlements concerning PFAS, commonly known as “forever chemicals,” against major chemical companies 3M, DuPont, Chemours, and Corteva. The settlements will provide up to $13.7 billion in relief to U.S. water systems affected by PFAS contamination from the companies’ products.

In 2022, Elizabeth was lead counsel and secured final approval of a groundbreaking $92 million settlement between TikTok and users of the app, resolving claims that the popular video-sharing app violated federal law and Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by unlawfully collecting users’ biometric information and private data and disclosing that information to third parties without notice to consumers.

Courts regularly appoint Elizabeth to lead national class-action cases, citing her robust experience, legal prowess, and dedication to excellence and equity.

Elizabeth and her husband, Timothy Scott, founded FeganScott in 2019 with a vision to create a national law firm specializing in class-action cases, high-stakes, contingent-fee litigation, and community-driven legal needs. The practice manages a variety of complex class actions and high-stakes individual cases.

Before founding FeganScott, Elizabeth launched the Chicago office of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, where she grew the firm significantly during her 15 years of leadership as Chicago office managing partner. Before that, she was a partner at The Wexler Firm in Chicago, where she launched her plaintiffs side career as an interim managing partner.

Elizabeth earned her Juris Doctorate from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she also taught legal writing and served as editor-at-large for the Loyola Law Journal.

Leading industry publications have long recognized Elizabeth’s prowess as a legal advocate and litigator. Super Lawyers has honored her as an Illinois Super Lawyer every year since 2016. Best Lawyers named her a Woman of Influence in 2017 and has recognized her in its Best Lawyers in America guide for four consecutive years, starting in 2022. She has been consistently listed among Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America for several years, was named a Midwest Trailblazer by The American Lawyer in 2022, and was recently named to the inaugural Forbes Top 200 Lawyers list in 2024. The National Law Journal also named FeganScott Consumer Protection Law Firm of the Year at its 2023 Elite Trial Lawyers Awards.

In addition to being celebrated for her general expertise, Elizabeth has received numerous accolades related to her work on behalf of sexual assault and abuse survivors, including being named one of Illinois’ Best Sexual Abuse Victims’ Attorneys by U.S. Business News. She’s also received the title of a Sports Law Trailblazer by The National Law Journal for her representation of student-athletes in cases involving the NCAA, where she’s fought to enhance protections for athletes against sexual abuse and assault, among other injustices.