Matt leads the labor & employment practice group in our Los Angeles office, and also is a member of our firm’s Complex Commercial Litigation Department. His practice focuses on representing businesses in preventing, litigating, and resolving employment-related claims, wage and hour class actions and collective actions, misappropriation of trade secrets and non-competition agreement claims, labor-management relations issues, unfair competition and false advertising consumer class actions, and general commercial litigation. Matt has significant experience representing clients in the financial services, transportation, food and beverage manufacturing and distribution, employee staffing, retail grocery and timeshare sales industries.

In addition to serving as a lawyer in private practice, Matt previously worked as in-house counsel for the Kroger Co. In that role, he managed all employment-related and consumer compliance issues and litigation involving the approximately 35,000 employees, 500 retail stores, three distribution centers, and four manufacturing and food processing plants of Kroger’s Ralphs Supermarkets, Food 4 Less, Foods Co., Cala Foods and Bell Markets divisions located in California, Nevada, Illinois and Indiana.

Drawing on this extensive experience, Matt provides candid and pragmatic counsel and representation to business clients ranging from small organizations to Fortune 500 companies. Since 2009, he has served as lead national wage and hour class action defense counsel for one of the largest financial institutions in the United States. His practice is national in scope, representing clients in courts throughout the United States, including in California, Illinois, Kansas, Nevada, New York, Texas and Washington.

While in law school, Matt served as a judicial law clerk extern for the Honorable Carolyn Turchin of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and he received an American Jurisprudence Award for Constitutional Law.