Ronald C “Ron” Scott joined MRLP as a Senior Partner in 2026 when the Law Firm of Scott & Corley, PA, combined with MRLP. With more than four decades of experience in default servicing, financial services litigation, and governmental relations, Ron provides clients with seasoned counsel, strategic insight, and practical understanding of the legal and business challenges facing the mortgage servicing industry. His focus with MRLP is in marketing support for the firm’s proven talents, resources, and geographical footprint.
Ron has repeatedly been recognized by Best Lawyers in America in the current multiple categories of Governmental Relations, Real Estate Litigation, and Mortgaging Banking Default. He is also a repeat selection through the patented and anonymous process used by the prestigious Super Lawyers in his selection in the field of Creditor-Debtor Rights. Ron has been honored as one of the 2025 Most Influential 500 Leaders from the South Carolina Business and Legal Communities by SCBIZ News. He has been recognized for his professional accomplishments and community service as an ICON by both the South Carolina Lawyers Weekly and the Columbia Regional Business Report organizations. Ron has also been selected as one of 20 lawyers across the state as a “GO TO” Lawyer in business matters by the South Carolina Lawyers Weekly as well as an attorney recipient of the Diversity & Inclusion Award as one of 20 SC-NC based attorneys in the inaugural class by the joint South Carolina Lawyers Weekly and North Carolina Lawyers Weekly publications. Of note, Ron is an inaugural selection to the South Carolina Lawyers Hall of Fame as recognized by the South Carolina Lawyers Weekly publication. In 2026 Ron was one of only four recipients of the Lifetime Leaders in Law Achievement Award given by SCBIZ News in recognizing his professional accomplishments as well as his several philanthropic endeavors with emphasis on his scholarship support for first generation college and law students.
Ron has sought to continue the tradition of public and civic service championed by his late father, The Honorable Robert C. Scott, Jr., and his late sister, Dr. Susan Scott Lynch, both recipients of the Order of the Palmetto, South Carolina’s highest civilian award given for extraordinary lifetime achievement, service, and contributions of a state-wide or national significance, as well as his late mother, Dr. Louise Tinsley Scott, a recipient of the Palmetto Patriot Award from the state’s Adjutant General. Ron is further recognized as a Veteran in his having honorably served as an officer in the Adjutant General Corps of the United States Army.
Like his other family members, Ron is grateful to have been awarded the Order of the Palmetto in 2017. That same year, on October 12, 2017, the then Mayor and City Council of Columbia unanimously proclaimed “Ronald C Scott Day” in Columbia South Carolina.