As a member of the Healthcare, Life Sciences & Education industry team, Matt concentrates his practice in the areas of healthcare and commercial litigation. He has experience handling all stages of litigation, including bench and jury trials, preliminary injunctions, and arbitration, and he regularly advises clients on negotiations, discovery issues and litigation strategies.
Matt frequently defends healthcare clients in lawsuits related to privacy issues and commercial disputes. He has extensive experience litigating class actions brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Matt has successfully defended both large Fortune 500 companies as well as small, privately-held businesses accused of allegedly sending unsolicited text messages, facsimiles and calls to cellular and residential phones. He has also assisted in petitioning the FCC on behalf of his clients. He regularly advises healthcare and non-healthcare clients about compliance with privacy laws and regulations, including the TCPA.
Matt also has experience representing pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers and healthcare companies in pharmaceutical tort, negligence and various other types of commercial disputes. Matt has represented large and small healthcare clients in civil litigation proceedings, government investigations and contract disputes and has experience both prosecuting and defending trade secret and unfair competition claims, including claims for injunctive and other extraordinary relief.
Additionally, Matt has experience prosecuting and defending government contract awards, including work successfully defending a bid protest related to a multi-billion dollar state contract award to a healthcare industry client.
Matt is an alumni of Teach for America and also handles pro-bono cases for juveniles.