Elizabeth Potter Scully

Hon. Elizabeth Scully sits in a family law assignment on the Los Angeles Superior Court. She received her AB in Classics (Latin) magna cum laude from Harvard in 1993 and her JD from the University of California Hastings College of the Law in 1996. Prior to taking the bench in December 2020, she was a certified Family Law Specialist (California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization) in private practice and a founding partner of Jacobson Scully LLP, providing mediation, collaborative and minor...See more

Hon. Elizabeth Scully sits in a family law assignment on the Los Angeles Superior Court. She received her AB in Classics (Latin) magna cum laude from Harvard in 1993 and her JD from the University of California Hastings College of the Law in 1996. Prior to taking the bench in December 2020, she was a certified Family Law Specialist (California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization) in private practice and a founding partner of Jacobson Scully LLP, providing mediation, collaborative and minor's counsel services, in addition to traditional litigation representation. As an attorney, she was also vice president of the Board of Directors of Levitt Quinn, a nonprofit law firm serving the working poor, and a member of A Better Divorce, a collaborative practice group in Los Angeles's South Bay. She has taught experiential courses in mediation and in negotiation theory and practice at UCLA School of Law and has co-authored numerous books and articles (with Woody and others) on topics relating to consensual dispute resolution in the family law context. She was co-recipient of the Association of Family and Conciliation Court's 2016 See less