A partner of Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz since 1991, Mr. Schott's areas of practice concentration are business, business litigation, banking, finance and commercial transactions, real estate and environmental law.

Mr. Schott is a member of the American Bar Association, the Louisiana State Bar Association, the New Orleans Bar Association, the Environmental Law Institute, the Advisory Board for the Tulane Environmental Law Journal, and BNA's Environmental Due Diligence Guide State Law Advisory Committee.

Mr. Schott was born in New Orleans in 1957. In 1979, he received his undergraduate degree in accounting, magna cum laude , from Southeastern Louisiana University. He received his Juris Doctor Degree from Loyola University in 1983. In 1993, while continuing to practice law full time, he received a Master of Laws in Energy and Environment, with distinction, from Tulane University. While pursuing his Master of Laws degree, a law review article Mr. Schott wrote, entitled "Lender Liability Under CERCLA - Past, Present and Future," was published in 11 UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy 1 . Mr. Schott is also the author of Louisiana Environmental Law , published by Government Institutes, Inc.

Before joining Montgomery Barnett, Mr. Schott clerked for the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal and was in private practice with another law firm.