Danny A. Philpott
Danny Philpott was born near Baltimore, Maryland but grew up in the “coalfields” of the Appalachian mountains in southern West Virginia. He is an honorably discharged Vietnam era veteran of the U.S. Army, having enlisted in the military at the age of seventeen. After military service he attended and graduated from the West Virginia Institute of Technology in Montgomery, WV with a Bachelor of Science in Public Service with minors in Economics, Sociology and Political Science.

Mr. Philpott has held positions in non-profit, public interest organizations, government agencies as well as private industry. He has been an area resident (Port Orange) and businessman for more than twenty years. Mr. Philpott is a 2005 graduate of Florida A&M University School of Law in Orlando. After receiving his law degree Mr. Philpott worked as an Assistant State Attorney in Volusia County. He began his legal career in the misdemeanor division of the Deland office, prosecuting crimes in county court such as DUI, cannabis possession, worthless checks, domestic violence, simple battery, petit theft and driving license violations. After six months in the misdemeanor division he was transferred to the felony division where he prosecuted crimes such as felony DUI and drug cases, burglaries, grand theft, credit card fraud and fraud against public agencies to name a few.

Mr. Philpott is a member of the Florida bar, and is licensed to practice law in all Florida state courts as well as the U.S Middle District of Florida federal court.

Scott F. Sawtelle
Scott Sawtelle was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he lived and worked around the historic City of Boston all his life before joining the U.S. Army. Mr. Sawtelle served domestically and overseas as a Military Policeman for a number of years before being honorably discharged from active to reserve duty. Mr. Sawtelle returned to the City of Boston to study sociology and criminal justice at Suffolk University and shortly thereafter graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1997.

Mr. Sawtelle went on to study law at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan where he concentrated in trial litigation before earning a Jurist Doctor in 2001

After law school, Mr. Sawtelle immediately accepted a position as an Assistant Public Defender in Seminole County before transferring to the Volusia County Public Defender's Office, where he practiced criminal defense in the County and Circuit Courts between 2002 and 2006.

During this time, Mr. Sawtelle gained valuable criminal defense experience in the areas of; motion practice, depositions, negotiation skills, and criminal trial litigation by defending indigent clients charged with various felony crimes; including capital sex batteries, armed robberies, aggravated assault and batteries, armed home invasion, DUI manslaughters, drug trafficking, and other various felony and misdemeanor crimes.

Mr. Sawtelle has been a member of the Florida Bar since 2002 and in U.S. Middle District of Florida since 2004. Mr. Sawtelle is currently a member of the Central Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

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