Scott Tips received his Bachelor of Arts
degree, magna cum laude, from the University of California at
Los Angeles in 1976, studied at the Sorbonne (Paris I) from
1976-1977, and obtained his Juris Doctorate degree from the
University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
in 1980, where he was the Managing Editor of the California
Law Review. A California-licensed attorney, he was
admitted to the California Bar in 1980 and has specialized
since 1983 in food-and-drug law and trademark law, but also
engages in business litigation, general business law, and
nonprofit organizations, with an international clientele.
Since 1989, Mr. Tips has been the General Counsel for the
National Health Federation, the United States' oldest
health-freedom organization for consumers. A legal columnist,
he also writes a monthly column for Whole Foods Magazine
called Legal Tips, a column he started in 1984. Currently, Mr.
Tips is occupying much of his time with health-freedom issues
involving the Codex Alimentarius Commission and its and other attempts to limit
individual freedom of choice in health matters.