Nancy Scott Degan practiced law as a commercial litigator for more than forty years, and retired from Baker Donelson in early 2024. She has extensive experience helping businesses and business people resolve their disputes through negotiations, trials, arbitrations and appeals. Ms. Degan handled breach of contract matters, all manner of bank litigation, including representing bank directors, oil and gas disputes, shareholder actions and other securities litigation.
In 2014-2015, Ms. Degan served as chair of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation, and in 2016-2017, she chaired the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, which reviews qualifications for presidential nominations to the Federal bench. She is the author of numerous articles and scholarly works regarding commercial litigation, mineral law and evidence.
Ms. Degan has been a frequent speaker at ABA, Louisiana and New Orleans Bar Association programs, and the LSU Mineral Law Institute on substantive and procedural topics, trial practice and leadership skills.