Joshua Piovia-Scott joined the Law Offices of Randy Renick in 2002 and Hadsell Stormer Keeny Richardson & Renick in 2008 with the merger of the two firms.  Mr. Piovia-Scott’s civil rights practice specializes in both class actions and individual cases involving racial and sexual harassment and discrimination, slavery and human trafficking, whistleblowing retaliation, police misconduct, the right to free speech and wage and hour violations. 

Mr. Piovia-Scott has worked on a wide range of cases, including Ruiz v. Jackson, in which a jury awarded $1.6 million against a Sony Executive for coercing a Filipino woman into service as a domestic slave, Hernandez v. Tyco, a wage and hour class action on behalf of factory workers that settled for $4.9 million and Navarro v. Pacifica, a wage and hour class action on behalf of low wage hotel workers that settled for $6.5 million.

Mr. Piovia-Scott was selected as a “Rising Star” by the Los Angeles Magazine and Law and Politics Magazine in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,2009 and 2010.

Mr. Piovia-Scott graduated from the UCLA School of Law in 2002 as part of the Program in Public Interest Law and Policy and was a member of the second class of the law school’s Concentration in Critical Race Studies.  While in law school, Mr. Piovia-Scott worked for the ACLU, the Western Center on Law and Poverty and the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.  He spent his first summer in Guatemala helping prepare a case on behalf of families of people who had been “disappeared” during that country’s civil conflict and his second summer in Geneva, Switzerland working on the World Conference Against Racism. 

Mr. Piovia-Scott graduated from the University of California at San Diego with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and from Berkeley High School.   He sits on the board of directors of Peace Action West, the largest grass-roots peace and justice organization in California.