Scott
Greathead is a partner in the New York City office of Wiggin and Dana LLP,
where he practices commercial litigation. He is also the CEO of World
Monitors, Inc., a consulting firm affiliated with Wiggin and Dana, which
provides multinational corporations with strategies for risk prevention and
brand protection in the global economy.
From 1984 to 1990, Greathead served as the First Assistant Attorney General
of New York State under Attorney General Robert Abrams. His service in the
Attorney General’s office included responsibility for some of the office’s
most important cases, including the Hooker Chemical Company-Love Canal
litigation, the Tawana Brawley investigation, and several major tax evasion
investigations and prosecutions.
Greathead is a
member of the Board of Directors of Human Rights First (formerly the Lawyers
Committee for Human Rights), which he helped to found in 1978. Human Rights
First works to promote international human rights and refugee law in the
United States and abroad. He has visited more than a dozen countries on
human rights fact finding missions for Human Rights First, Human Rights
Watch, the International League for Human Rights, and other organizations.
Since 1982, he has represented the families of four American churchwomen who
were murdered in El Salvador in December 1980. He also represented U.S.
Jesuit organizations in connection with the November 1989 murders of six
Jesuits and two members of their household staff by elements of the
Salvadoran army.
