Matt’s practice focuses on complex business and commercial litigation, and he has represented clients in a variety of matters including complex partnership and shareholder disputes, oil and gas litigation, breaches of contract, construction defect claims, employment litigation, commercial real estate disputes, and insider-trading allegations.

While in law school, Matt interned for Judge Jennifer W. Elrod of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Justice Brett Busby of the Texas Court of Appeals, Fourteenth District (now serving on the Texas Supreme Court), Judge Vanessa Gilmore of the United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, and Judge Sylvia Matthews of the 281st Harris County Civil District Court.

During law school, Matt also served as a member of the South Texas Law Review and the Board of Advocates. In addition, he was a member of the nationally recognized South Texas College of Law Mock Trial program, representing the law school around the country.

EDUCATION

• South Texas College of Law – J.D., 2014
  • summa cum laude
  • Law Review
  • Order of the Lytae
  • Board of Advocates
  • Mock Trial Team
• University of Houston – B.A. Public Relations, 2011
  • magna cum laude

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Co-Author, Application of Legal Principles to Enhanced Oil Recovery Operations, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Special Institute on Enhanced Oil Recovery:
  Legal Framework for Sustainable Management of Mature Oil Fields, May 7, 2015.
• Co-Author, Mandamus-An Eye Towards New-Trial Orders and Discovery Issues, State Bar of Texas 31st Annual Advanced Evidence and Discovery, April 2018.

ADMISSIONS

• State Bar of Texas