About David Scopp

David Scopp, Esq. is Of Counsel at Harris Personal Injury Lawyers, Inc., where he handles personal injury and appellate matters with the same care he would offer his own family. Prior to joining Harris, he operated his own firm and worked at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, a major law firm where he defended insurance companies — experience that now informs his plaintiff advocacy.

Scopp has had numerous successes at both the trial and appellate levels. He has been named to the 2026 Northern California Super Lawyers list and was selected as a Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2015 and 2016. He holds a 9.1/10 Avvo rating and received multiple CALI Awards for Excellence in law school.

He earned his Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review and published a comment analyzing the constitutionality of the Endangered Species Act. He earned his undergraduate degree from Middlebury College. He is admitted to the State Bar of California.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Harris Personal Injury Lawyers, Inc.

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$21.5 millionSettlement

David Long tripped on two inches of exposed trolley track left by construction grinding crews at the 12th and Imperial MTS station and suffered a spinal cord injury that left him quadriplegic; the case settled for $21.5 million.

San Diego County Superior Court, Central Justice Center · 2015Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$13.28 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2009 · #18

A Tulare County jury awarded $13,284,363 to a nineteen-year-old Farmersville woman who suffered permanent traumatic brain injury and hemiparesis when a multi-vehicle chain-reaction crash sent an oncoming car into her lane.

Tulare County Superior Court (Visalia, CA) · 2009Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$1.59 millionVerdict

A San Luis Obispo County jury awarded $6,709,300 to the family of Tricia Rittger, a KSBY sales manager who was struck and killed by an SUV while crossing Shell Beach Road to reach The Cliffs Resort, after the firm proved the resort had violated its own parking policy and a city-issued operating permit.

San Luis Obispo County Superior Court · 2014Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of San Francisco School of Law
Juris Doctor (J.D.)
Middlebury College
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California

Awards & recognition

Cum laude, USF School of Law
Editor-in-Chief, USF Law Review
Multiple CALI Awards for Excellence
Northern California Super Lawyers (2026)
Super Lawyers Rising Star (2015, 2016)
Avvo 9.1/10 rating

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.