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Location

2020 Eye Street Suite 111

Bakersfield CA 93301-4423

Hours

Mon-Fri 10am-3pm

Weekends Closed



If you are a current client and need to drop off paperwork you can do so between the hours of 9-5 on weekdays

My Practice

A Local Attorney Who Understands

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Erica M. Scott, Esq.

Lead Attorney

I started my solo practice, the Law Office of E.M. Scott, to bring my 11 years’ experience in Social Security Disability to the Bakersfield area to help my community. No matter their gender identity, orientation, race, religion, or education, it is important to me that my clients are treated with care and given honest answers and advice.


The Social Security Disability process can be confusing and overwhelming. People often mix up the benefits provided by local, State, and Federal governments, but I can often help people figure out a smart course of action to reduce periods of homelessness or hunger. No one should go hungry or be unsafe or unsheltered because a mental or physical disability prevents them working.


The most gratifying aspect of my practice is seeing my clients flourish after getting their benefits; seeing the kind of lifechanging effect that stable housing, food, and medical care can make in people's lives.

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  • I was born and raised in Bakersfield, California, and attended Stockdale High. Go Mustangs!
  • I attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, and graduated in 2007 with dual Bachelor degrees: a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics; and a Bachelor of Arts in French with a. second major in Asian Studies with a focus in Japanese. I lived and worked in Nara, Japan, for three years, as an English teacher for students aged 1 to 99, and travelled the world.
  • I returned to the US in 2010 to go to McGeorge College of Law at the University of the Pacific in Sacramento, California. I studied abroad in Austria with Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. I graduated Order of the Coif (highest honors) in 2013 and was admitted to the California Bar in that same year. While in law school, I clerked for the Sacramento Family Court and Olson, Hagel, Fishburn, LLP, in their Social Security practice.
  • My husband and two small children live in Bakersfield, California, with our 3 pets. We enjoy Dewar’s ice cream and biking on the bike path!
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