SCOTT H. MICHAUD was born in Danvers, Massachusetts. The child of a military family, he lived all over the United States and in Europe before his family settled in Florida in 1969. After completing his public school education in the Orlando area, Mr. Michaud received his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Central Florida in 1977 and his J.D. in 1980 from the University of Florida. Admitted to the Florida bar in 1980, he has also been admitted to the United States District Courts, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, the United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit and United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Michaud began his legal career as a trial lawyer for the State Attorney's office for the Ninth Judicial Circuit of Florida, where he handled over forty jury trials and in excess of two hundred bench trials. After a brief tenure as an associate with a plaintiff's personal injury firm, he joined the insurance defense firm of Parker, Johnson, Owen & McGuire and became a partner in that firm in 1985. He opened and served as the Managing Partner of the firm's South Florida office in Boca Raton from 1987 until June of 1993, when he founded the firm of Michaud, Buschmann, Fox, Ferrara & Mittelmark.

Because of his extensive experience trying professional malpractice, and other general liability cases, Mr. Michaud is a frequent author and lecturer to attorneys, insurance claims people, risk managers and other professionals. He has published on a wide variety of topics related to his expertise, including: Defending the Physician in Large Damage Cases; Office Practice Risk Management for the Physician; Manufacturer's Responsibilities for Off-Label Uses; How Learned Must the Intermediary Be?; Insurance Company Claims Evaluations; Sovereign Immunity: A Viable Defense for Insurance Companies?; Bad Faith: Analysis and Litigation; Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Insurance Coverage Analysis; Practice Under the Medical Malpractice Reform Act of 1985; The Pitfalls of Peer Review; Premises Liability Prevention for the Business Owner, ERISA Preemption for Device Manufacturers; Alive, Dead or On Life-Support; Settlement Negotiations in Medical Malpractice Cases; Informed Consent: Is There Such a Thing?; The Art of Negotiation; A Primer on Malpractice Prevention; and together with Brian Fox, Apportionment of Damages and Setoff : Life After Wells v. Tallahassee Memorial , for the Florida Bar Journal. Mr. Michaud is also contributing author of the Primer on Medical Malpractice , Hampton Publishers, Inc., 1983 and Medical Malpractice: a Thought Book , Rein 1992, and recently completed teaching a 10 hour CME course entitled Medical Malpractice: A Survival Guide.

His professional memberships include the American Bar Association (Sections on Litigation; Torts and Insurance Practice); the Trial Lawyers Section of the Florida Bar; the Broward, Palm Beach and South Palm Beach County Bar Associations, the Defense Research Institute and the Florida Defense Lawyers Association. Mr. Michaud enjoys an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, is Board Certified as a Civil Trial Lawyer by the Florida Bar, and has been recently selected by his peers for inclusion in Florida's Leading Attorneys. Believing strongly that professionals should give something back to the communities which support them, Mr. Michaud is active in many civic, charitable, religious and educational organizations, including service on several executive and advisory boards.