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Wayne was born in San Marcos, Texas to Bonnie Bernice (Hinkle) and Leonard W. Scott on November 12, 1938. He grew up in Lockhart, Texas. He attended Southwest State Teachers College for a BA and MA in American Studies. He attended the University of Texas Law School where he earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence. He married his high school sweetheart, Patricia Pond. He served as a briefing attorney for the Criminal Court of Appeals and then the Texas Supreme Court. In 1965, Wayne was hired by the Sheehy and Lovelace law firm in Waco and was concurrently an associate law professor at Baylor University.
In 1971, Wayne accepted a position at St. Mary's Law School as a full professor. He created the Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute and taught several summers at the St. Mary's Institute on World Legal Problems in Innsbruck Austria alongside Ruth Bader Ginsburg, William Rehnquist, and Antonin Scalia. Wayne was also a board certified civil appellate attorney who spent more than 30 years as Editor of the State Bar of Texas' publication, the Texas Lawyer's Weekly Digest and its successor, the Texas Lawyer's Civil Digest, summarizing, on a weekly basis, the decisions of the Texas appellate courts. Wayne shared his love for appellate law through his role as professor, teaching appellate practice and skills courses, while also serving as the moot court coach for St. Mary's summer teams. Wayne was a staunch believer in the importance of practical advocacy skills and was one of the primary architects behind the St. Mary's External Advocacy Program. His strong belief in the importance of advocacy is further embodied by the Patricia Scott Award, named in honor of Wayne's first wife, the Patricia Scott Award, the highest advocacy award given to a graduating 3L law student. Throughout his tenure at St. Mary's, Wayne taught courses in Evidence, Mediation, Negotiation, Texas Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, Appellate Practice, and Jurisprudence. In 2021 he received the 50-year pin from St. Mary's Law School.
In 1976, his first wife passed away. In 1982, he married his second wife, Maxine Miller Scott, with whom with he celebrated his 40th anniversary in 2022. He was preceded in death by his parents and his first wife. He is survived by Maxine and his three children, Kelly Scott Garcia (Frank Garcia), Leonard Wade Scott (Frances Scott), and Bradford Glenn Scott (Kimberly Scott); grandchildren Frank and Riley Garcia, Audrey, Breckenridge, and Anna Scott; and numerous nieces, nephews, colleagues, and friends. The family will receive friends from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Saturday, September 24, 2022, at Porter Loring Mortuary.
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1101 McCULLOUGH AVE.
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Roland Love
September 28, 2022
Professor Scott was an institution at the Texas Land Title Institute, and i always looked forward to our time together and dinner with he and Maxine. I am better for my time with him and will miss him dearly.
Robert Lee Summers, Jr.
September 23, 2022
Wayne and I worked together as faculty at the law school for over forty years. In the later years, we spent many an evening in his office talking about law, politics, world events, history, the virtues of the rural life in Texas, our families and last, but far from least, our beloved canines. Those times were the best of times. I love my dear friend Wayne. He was one of a kind, and I miss his limitless kindness, his wry humor and his unbound enthusiam for life, family, faith, America and the Great State of Texas.
Julene Franki
September 22, 2022
I am so grateful to have been able to have nominated Wayne Scott for the Gene Cavin Award, which he was given as the highest award of the State Bar of Texas for Excellence in Continuing Legal Education (CLE) because of his extensive contributions to Texas Bar CLE before and after my working there which were inspired by his own mentor, Gene Cavin himself. In addition to that really remarkable body of CLE contribution, I got to participate in teaching at St. Marys Law for about 7 years in just one of his several innovative learning-by-doing efforts from Trial Advocacy to Negotiations, which I was involved with, along with his best former students as adjunct professors.
I remember hearing them talk about him before he arrived for lunch before class and noting that he was a legend as a trial lawyer in the Bexar County Courts and that when he was in trial the students and former students would crowd in to see "how it was done."
But, most of all I remember his kindness to me as a young planning attorney when I joined the State Bar of Texas CLE Department in 1987 and his intense love of innovative topics in the joint St Mary´s CLE projects with the Bar. When I started up the phone seminars, our first live distance education projects, he was there with new ideas all the time and especially his long ongoing Supreme Court Updates that morphed into Zoom CLE eventually.
Wayne was always there for me with any speaking gig or new project for the Bar.
But, most of all he was a great and kind and good person dedicated to all students and to the law and his family above all. He treated everyone the same: the waitress at 410 diner where I occasionally dined with Wayne and his wife Max got the same interest and kindness as did Judge Calvert, Former Texas Supreme Court Justice, and frequent St. Mary's/State Bar CLE Moderator.
It has been a great pleasure to have known Wayne among the finest of the legal profession I have known.
He was loved and will be missed.
Julene Franki
Amy McLin
September 21, 2022
Professor Scott was one of my favorite professors in law school. Our family's thoughts and prayers are with his family during this difficult time. May your memories and those shared by others provide you with comfort!
Janice Miles
September 21, 2022
I often quote Professor Scott, "The most important thing in negotiation is relationship."
Professor Scott and his wisdom will be missed.
Kristine Arlitt
September 21, 2022
Professor Scott was one of the best and most interesting teachers at St. Mary's School of Law. Many words of wisdom not found in any text book. He was always encouraging and will be missed!
George Wayne Skladal
September 19, 2022
Professor Wayne Scott taught me civil procedure in 1975 and 1976. He was a fine man, and I shall miss him greatly.
George Wayne Skladal
Anchorage, Alaska
Matt Miller
September 19, 2022
It is with profound sadness that I learned of the passing of Professor Scott. Please accept my sincere condolences for his family and loved ones. I do not have the family´s contact information, so please allow a small indulgence to express what L. Wayne Scott meant to me.
I first met Professor Scott when he taught me Texas Civil Procedure I in June of 2005, the summer after my first year. He was interested in every student personally. He would always start his daily questioning, AKA the Socratic Method (a common law school practice), with asking our favorite movie or some personal information. He was interested in every one of his students as a person. He was never mean or unfair. He never hid the ball or tried to act like he was smarter than everyone in the room. If you didn't know the answer or misunderstood the case, he didn't make you feel foolish or belittle you. He wanted you to understand the law, to see it's worth and benefit, to get the point and be better for it, for yourself and your client. He made an impression on me from the beginning.
One day, out of the blue, he mentioned that if anyone was interested, he had an opening for a research assistant and would prioritize anyone on the law journal. Ever the broke law school student and fan of disposable income, I approached him immediately after class and inquired as to the process for applying. I confirmed that I had recently been awarded a position on the law journal and he simply said "ok, I'll submit the paperwork. You can start next week."
All I ever wanted to be was a lawyer, but after first year, I was lost. I spent most of my life up to that point thinking I would be a prosecutor and possibly a criminal defense attorney. After a rewarding but tumultuous bout with the Travis County DA's office, I began, for the first time in my life, to reconsider what I wanted professionally. Enter Professor Scott. What transpired over the next two years changed the direction of my philosophy, career, and life.
Professor Scott was the definition of Old School: a gentleman, an institutionalist, a believer of justice and right. He was always kind and patient and loved being around students. He taught me that the rules and the foundations matter, that they can guide us and keep us honest, and so I took every procedure class the school offered. We spent so many afternoons discussing the law, how the practice has changed, and what it all meant. He set me up with his best friend, Les Mendelsohn, for an internship in the summer between my second and third year of law school. It was there that I learned the nuts and bolts of plaintiff´s work. Combined these two men showed me what it meant to be a tough, smart, accomplished lawyer.
I would not have the career I do without Professor Scott. Directly out of law school and for 15 years, I was privileged to work on healthcare fraud cases against the biggest companies on the planet and enjoyed every minute of it. My old boss, Cynthia O´Keeffe, herself a former St. Mary´s grad, said that she pulled my application at the Attorney General´s Office because I worked for Professor Scott. "If you were Professor Scott´s research assistant and he sent you to work for Les Mendelsohn, you were someone we had to talk to," she admitted to me later. Such was the respect commanded by Professor Scott. Les passed in 2007, the week after I graduated from St. Mary´s. In 2010, after we won an $180 million verdict in my first jury trial, Professor Scott was the first professional contact I told about it. And in his classic, classy style gave me the best compliment he could when he told me "Les would be very proud!"
I hope, wherever he is, that I made him proud too.
Mary Sue Miller
September 19, 2022
Prof. Wayne Scott will be greatly missed. We would often talk about "Lockhart" things whenever I would see him at the Texas Law Center or the Hemphill Dinner.
Joseph C. Cascarelli, Esq.
September 19, 2022
I am an alumnus of The Law School of St. Mary's University of San Antonio. I was never taught by Professor Scott, but I always envied those fellow students who were. Professor Scott enjoyed the highest respect from every colleague of mine with whom I chanced to compare courses and professors. Many a good, if not great lawyer and judge in Texas became who they are because of Professor Scott. At this event of passing from this world to heaven, I pass along my prayers for Professor Scott and his family and close by saying: May God bless the good Professor forever and ever for all the good work that he has done for all of us at St. Mary's University. Amen.
Patty Roberts, Dean of St. Mary's School of Law
September 19, 2022
Ever since my arrival at St. Mary's School of Law in June 2020, Professor Scott was incredibly supportive and encouraging. We had many conversations about his significant role in, and passion for, our negotiation and alternative dispute resolution program, a program whose start we owe to him. Alumni regularly tell me how they would call him early in their career for Texas Civ Pro advice, and how he was always extremely gracious with his time and his expertise. But what I will remember him for the most is his adoration of both his wives, and his incredibly big and generous heart. He will be missed.
Christina Perez
September 18, 2022
From my short time spent with Wayne, I could tell he was an amazing man. Please accept my sincere condolences.
Todd Smith
September 18, 2022
When I think about people who had a profound effect on my life, Wayne certainly comes to mind. I mostly knew him as the coach of our St. Mary's national moot court team in the mid-90s, but we stayed in touch for some time after that. He was always kind and encouraging, and he loved appellate law. He was quick with a story about founding members of the Texas appellate bar. I learned from Wayne what a joy practicing civil appellate law could be. Bless you, Maxine, and thank you for sharing him with us!
Heidi Foreman
September 17, 2022
I had Professor Scott for Texas Civ Pro and Negotiations. I loved his enthusiasm for the law and teaching.
In my Texas Civ Pro class he made the comment about how none of us would probably go to his funeral, and right then I decided if I knew about I would.
He was a gentle person who "enjoyed smiling at folks in the grocery store." My sincerest condolences to Maxine and his family. He will always be one of my favorites.
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