Scott Meyers is Chairman and CEO of Akerman, an Am Law 100 firm of more than 700 lawyers and business professionals across 24 offices. Under his leadership, the firm posted record revenue of $627 million in 2025 and has grown revenue and profitability every year of his tenure.
Scott has made artificial intelligence central to how Akerman operates, governs, and serves clients. He built Akerman Intelligence, the firm's platform for AI strategy, research, and thought leadership, and authors its CEO Perspective series on emerging issues at the intersection of technology, business, and governance. His analyses include "When Science Fiction Becomes Enterprise Risk," on the legal and governance implications of AI developers' public statements about machine consciousness; "Pandora's Bots," on the enterprise risks of autonomous agentic AI; and "Agentic AI and the Collapse of the Obedient-Tool Premise," on why AI governance frameworks built for predictable software fail when applied to autonomous agents. His work is republished by Lexology and JD Supra and has been featured in coverage of AI and the business of law by Law360 and The American Lawyer.
In building the Akerman Intelligence platform, Scott developed and launched the Law+AI Initiative with the USC Gould School of Law, the first dedicated knowledge-sharing platform pairing leading legal scholars with practicing attorneys to help shape the standards and regulatory path for full-scale AI adoption. He co-authored the initiative's business plan, set its strategy and scope, and manages it within Akerman Intelligence.
That work reflects several years of sustained personal engagement with frontier AI systems, alignment research, and mechanistic interpretability. Scott writes and speaks from primary sources: model system cards, peer-reviewed interpretability research, and hands-on work with the systems themselves. He spoke at CNBC's inaugural AI Summit in Nashville in 2025, and in July 2026 was among the small number of member-firm leaders invited to address the ALAS Managing Partner Conference, speaking to the managing partners of major U.S. law firms on AI.
Inside the firm, Scott has moved Akerman from AI policy to AI practice. He launched the AI Creditable Hours Program, which gives lawyers billable-hour credit for building AI proficiency; established a dedicated AI governance function reporting into firm leadership; and centered Akerman's 2026 firmwide retreat, with roughly 700 attendees, on preparing every lawyer and professional for an AI-driven profession, an event Law360 covered under the headline "Akerman Goes All In With AI."
Scott became Chairman and CEO in February 2020 after serving as Akerman's first firmwide Managing Partner. He joined the firm in 2014 as founding Office Managing Partner in Chicago, growing the office from eight to 55 lawyers in four years. Before firm leadership, he practiced for nearly 30 years as a securities and complex commercial litigator, representing hedge funds, investment advisers, private debt and equity funds, broker-dealers, and public company officers and directors in matters before the SEC, FINRA, and federal and state courts.
He graduated cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.